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	<title>Comments on: Military judge refuses to revive war crimes case</title>
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		<title>By: Howard Gilbert</title>
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		<dc:creator>Howard Gilbert</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 01:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There are three ways to proceed:

&lt;p&gt;The government can appeal, but the appellate court appears not to exist yet.

&lt;p&gt;The SecDef can create rules for a CSRT to declare someone to be an unlawful enemy combatant, but such rules cannot go into effect for 60 days and then there has to be a new CSRT.

&lt;p&gt;Or they can try Khadr before a General Court Martial. Nothing in this case presents the special circumstances where a military commission has some advantage. There is no classified information to keep from the accused. It is mostly a straight forward charge of murder with about a dozen witnesses. This particular case would be about the same when tried before either a Court Martial or a commission, and a Court Martial can try both lawful and unlawful enemy combatants and could start immediately. So the most efficient approach is to try Khadr before a Court Martial and then fix the CSRT process for later defendents where the difference really matters.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are three ways to proceed:</p>
<p>The government can appeal, but the appellate court appears not to exist yet.</p>
<p>The SecDef can create rules for a CSRT to declare someone to be an unlawful enemy combatant, but such rules cannot go into effect for 60 days and then there has to be a new CSRT.</p>
<p>Or they can try Khadr before a General Court Martial. Nothing in this case presents the special circumstances where a military commission has some advantage. There is no classified information to keep from the accused. It is mostly a straight forward charge of murder with about a dozen witnesses. This particular case would be about the same when tried before either a Court Martial or a commission, and a Court Martial can try both lawful and unlawful enemy combatants and could start immediately. So the most efficient approach is to try Khadr before a Court Martial and then fix the CSRT process for later defendents where the difference really matters.</p>
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