[A-List] Guantanamo military judge - No authority to try inmates, just imprison them

["Leigh Meyers" <the.buffalo.in.the.midst@xxxxxxxxx>]

Reuters:

Guantanamo war crimes trials screech to halt
By Jane Sutton

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - U.S. military judges
dropped all war crimes charges on Monday against the only two
Guantanamo captives facing trial, rulings that could preclude trying
any of the 380 prisoners held at the U.S. base in Cuba any time soon.

The judges said they lacked jurisdiction under the strict definition
of those eligible for trial by military tribunal under a law the U.S.
Congress enacted last year.

"It's another demonstration that the system simply doesn't work," said
the tribunals' chief defense counsel, Marine Col. Dwight Sullivan.

The rulings did not affect U.S. authority to indefinitely hold the 380
foreign terrorism suspects detained at the Guantanamo Bay naval base
in southeast Cuba.

In full: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2007-06-05T012919Z_01_N04480390_RTRUKOC_0_US-GUANTANAMO-TRIBUNALS-khadr.xml&src=nl_ustopnewsevening