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Gitmo Judge Dismisses Terrorist Charges Against Canadian

AP Via Yahoo: A military judge on Monday dismissed terrorism-related charges against a prisoner charged with killing an American soldier in Afghanis

AP Via Yahoo:

A military judge on Monday dismissed terrorism-related charges against a prisoner charged with killing an American soldier in Afghanistan in a stunning reversal for the Bush administration's attempts to try Guantanamo detainees in military court.

The chief of military defense attorneys at Guantanamo Bay, Marine Col. Dwight Sullivan, said the ruling in the case of Canadian detainee Omar Khadr could spell the end of the war-crimes trial system set up last year by Congress and President Bush after the Supreme Court threw out the previous system.

Sullivan said the dismissal of Khadr case has "huge" impact because none of the detainees held at this isolated military base in southeast Cuba has been found to be an "unlawful" enemy combatant.Read more...

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