Tribunals To Return, Detainees To Have More Rights

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From Yahoo News/AP:

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will restart military tribunals for a small number of Guantanamo detainees, reviving a Bush-era trial system he once assailed as flawed but with new legal protections for terror suspects, U.S. officials said.

The changes to the system, which will affect a small number of detainees, will be announced Friday.

The military trials will remain frozen for another four months as the administration adjusts the legal system that is expected to try fewer than 20 of the 241 detainees at the U.S. naval detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Thirteen detainees — including five charged with helping orchestrate the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks — are already in the tribunal system.

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More News On The Return Of Detainee Tribunals

Obama plans to resume military tribunals for detainees -- Yahoo News/AFP
Tribunals to Return, Detainees to Have More Rights -- Washington Post
Obama to renew military tribunals -- L.A. Times
At Hearing, Assurance On Fate of Detainees -- Washington Post
Obama to relaunch military tribunals for terror suspects -- Christian Science Monitor
Obama Planning to Keep Tribunals for Detainees -- New York Times
Obama decides to try some detainees before military commissions -- Miami Herald/McClatchy News
Guantanamo Military Tribunals to Resume -- Voice of America
US Lawmakers Press Attorney General on Interrogation, Guantanamo Issues -- Voice of America