Discredited Military Commissions Resume Despite Persistent Flaws

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ACLU at Guantanamo To Observe Proceedings of Alleged Former Child Soldier Omar Khadr

NEW YORK, April 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Four months after the Obama administration missed its deadline to close Guantanamo, the deeply flawed military commissions system has resumed there with closely watched pre-trial proceedings in the case of Omar Khadr beginning this week. The American Civil Liberties Union will be present for the pre-trial hearings for Khadr, a Canadian citizen who has been in U.S. custody since 2002 for war crimes allegedly committed when he was 15. The administration is moving forward with plans to try some of the Guantanamo detainees in the broken military commissions system despite the facts that the commissions still lack a set of procedural rules and they are plagued with persistent procedural and legal problems that will inevitably lead to legal challenges, delays and doubt over the outcomes of the trials.

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Discredited Military Commissions Resume Despite Persistent Flaws

If Khadr's trial goes forward as planned in July, the U.S. will become the first nation since World War II to prosecute someone for alleged war crimes commit...

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