OLD HURDLES AND NEW HAUNT THE SEPT. 11 CASE AT GUANTANAMO

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OLD HURDLES AND NEW HAUNT THE SEPT. 11 CASE AT GUANTANAMO

 

BY BEN FOX ASSOCIATED PRESS

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) -- Colleen Kelly came to Guantanamo Bay with a sense of impatience, dismayed at the U.S. military's floundering effort to try five detainees charged with roles in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack.

 

Having lost a brother at the World Trade Center, Kelly has closely followed each new development as the case lurched along since the men were brought to this U.S. base in Cuba in 2006 from clandestine overseas CIA detention centers.

 

She was at the latest pretrial session as an observer chosen by a lottery for family of people killed in the attacks. Before coming to Guantanamo, she was skeptical about the decision to try them by military commission instead of a civilian federal court.