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September 22, 2008
2:23 PM

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Defense Lawyers for 9/11 Detainees Challenge Bias and Political Influence at Guantánamo Proceedings This Week

ACLU and NACDL Appear at Hearings as Civilian Legal Advisors

GUANTANAMO BAY - September 22 - Appearing before a Guantánamo military commission today, military attorneys and civilian lawyers sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union's John Adams Project sought to interject a degree of fairness into the deeply flawed system. Among several requests, defense lawyers are asking that all charges be dismissed against the detainees accused of crimes related to the 9/11 attacks because of a history of political interference from Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, a top Pentagon general.

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9/11 Justice: War Crimes Trials Don't Engage Public

The sun sets over Camp Justice and its adjacent tent city, the legal complex of the U.S. Military Commissions, at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, in Cuba, June 4, 2008. Secrecy, misinformation, and torture have been the legacy of the detention center, not justice. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

WASHINGTON - This time of year especially, Carole O'Hare gets stuck in a sad reverie at her California home, wondering about the last moments of her mother's life, alone, aboard the hijacked Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001.

''I think of my mom sitting on that plane by herself,'' she says of Hilda Marcin, 79, listed as victim No. 2,964 on the Pentagon's 9/11 war crimes charge sheet. ``I can't imagine what those 40 minutes were like. It must have been a lifetime.''

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