Pentagon Aide: To Move Forward With Trials Of 20 Detainees

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Source: AFP

WASHINGTON (AFP)--The Pentagon intends to press forward with the trials of at least 20 more detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a spokesman said, after a military jury handed down a guilty verdict in the first such trial.

Military jurors found Salim Hamdan not guilty of terrorist conspiracy charges, but convicted him on the lesser charge of material support for terrorism.

"We respect that decision," said Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman. "We fully intend to move forward with additional prosecutions on the 20 other cases that are currently in the military commission system."

The Hamdan trial was the first test of a special legal system created to try " war on terror" suspects captured outside the US and held at a prison on a US naval base in Cuba.



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[Solly Mack]

1. America has absolutely no shame.

None.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. & that one was the best they had. Perhaps they'll pin a shop lifting

conviction on the next one & go down from there & hope that the rest commit suicide before they charge them with anything.

[L. Coyote]

3. Have they been kept on ice for years, just for the campaign season?

[Javaman]

4. This has all the makings of the mass section 58 trials in the soviet union. nt

[MadrasT]

5. Feh.

Why waste everyone's time with the sham of a trial?

[The Stranger]

6. This is generating more hysteria for the "War on Terror" and generating GOP Fear Votes.

These are show trials for John McCain's political campaign.