<![CDATA[Guantanamo trials: another insignificant Afghan charged]]>

1.0 link 126379 <![CDATA[Guantanamo trials: another insignificant Afghan charged]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-worthington/guantanamo-trials-another_b_126379.html The Military Commissions at GuantÃ¡namo -- the trial system for "War on Terror" prisoners that was established in the wake of the 9/11 attacks -- are of enormous significance, as they are the only point at which the Bush administration's post-9/11 detention policies (focused, for the most part, on a disturbing legal limbo between the Geneva Conventions and the US court system, in which prisoners are held indefinitely without charge or trial) are tested in public.

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