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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jay the Obscure: [QB] U.S. Weighing New Doctrine for Tribunals Neil A. Lewis [QUOTE]WASHINGTON — Uncertain about how they will be able to prosecute many of the nearly 300 prisoners detained at a naval base in Cuba, Bush administration officials are considering a new legal doctrine that would allow prisoners to be brought before military tribunals without specific evidence that they engaged in war crimes. The new approach would make it an offense to have been a senior member or officer of a Qaeda unit that was involved in any of the regular crimes of war, like mistreatment of civilians. One administration official said the effort came out of increasing uneasiness that the interrogations of the prisoners, who were taken from Afghanistan to the naval base at Gu�ntanamo Bay, had not yielded enough information to charge very many with traditional war crimes. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the questioning was going slowly and the prisoners were largely uncooperative. No one, the official said, has confessed to any atrocity or violation of the laws of war. Nor, the official added, have the interrogators had much success in getting prisoners to provide information that could be used against other captives. Another official said the new approach would allow military prosecutors to charge some captives even without evidence from witnesses or documents that they committed war crimes.[/QUOTE][URL=http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/21/national/21TRIB.html]New York Times[/URL] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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