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Gitmo Gears up for Terror Trials

US builds new courtroom complex at base

By Peter Fearon, Newser Staff

Posted Sep 6, 2007 4:38 AM CDT

(Newser) – A high-security mobile courtroom complex is under construction at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base as officials prepare to try 9/11 suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other high profile al-Qaeda figures. Military tribunals will try as many as 80 detainees at the complex, three at a... Read full story »

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