Inside Guantanamo -- CBS News
The following script is from "Guantanamo" which aired on Nov. 3, 2013. The correspondent is Lesley Stahl. Rich Bonin, producer.
Brigadier General Mark Martins has one of the toughest missions there is in the war on terror -- not on the battlefield -- but in the courtroom of a special military commission. It will hold what's being called "al Qaeda's Nuremberg," the first trial of those charged with plotting the attacks on 9/11, 12 years ago. And as chief prosecutor, Martins will be asking for the death penalty.
Pre-trial proceedings have begun, and he's already taking fire because the five defendants were all subjected to widely-condemned interrogation techniques used by the CIA, among them waterboarding; and because of where the trial will be held -- at the notorious military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay. Since Congress passed a law banning the defendants from setting foot on U.S. soil, everyone involved in the case has to go there.
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