Carol Rosenberg, Miami Herald: "In the clearest sign yet that the Obama administration is re-energizing tribunals for captives at a Guantanamo it wants closed, the Pentagon this week installed a retired three-star admiral with national security and international law experience to run the war court."
http://www.truthout.org/obama-appoints-new-chief-war-court-guantanamo58016
More Dark Truths From Guantanamo as Five Innocent Men Are Freed
Andy Worthington, Truthout: "After eight years imprisonment without charge or trial, five former Guantanamo prisoners are beginning new lives this week - two in Switzerland and three in Georgia. Their stories reveal, yet again, how Republican lawmakers and media pundits in the US, who have, in recent months, renewed their fear-filled attacks on those still held, are guilty of hyperbolic and unprincipled outbursts and, in addition, how these critics' attacks are damaging to the prospects of cleared men, seized by mistake, finding new homes in countries that, unlike the US, are prepared to offer them a chance to rebuild their shattered lives on a humanitarian basis."
http://www.truthout.org/more-dark-truths-from-guantanamo-five-innocent-men-released58174
Guantanamo War Court Resumes Hearings Amid Uncertainty
Carol Rosenberg, McClatchy Newspapers: "Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - Still operating under Bush-era policies that President Barack Obama last year called 'a mess,' the Pentagon will resume military commission hearings for accused terrorists Wednesday in a top secret compound originally designed for the trial of alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed."
http://www.truthout.org/guantanamo-war-court-resumes-hearings-amid-uncertainty58355
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Sept. 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows: 9/11 Families Denounce Resumption of Military trials on Guantanamo
http://act.commondreams.org/go/153?akid=17.124981.0dNHOc&t=34
ACLU: Attorney General Stands Behind Use of Criminal Courts for 9/11 Terrorism Suspects
http://act.commondreams.org/go/240?akid=26.124981.rj0WX3&t=32
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
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