Gitmo Detainees Subject to
Detention Even If Acquitted: Pentagon
By AFP
06/08/08 "AFP" -- - Some detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba will
likely never be released because of the danger they pose, and
those tried and acquitted will still be subject to continued
detention as enemy combatants, a Pentagon spokesman said
Tuesday.
Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon press secretary, made the remarks as
Salim Hamdan, a Yemeni, awaited a verdict in the first war
crimes trial to be held under a special regime created for "war
on terror" suspects.
Morrell said Hamdan, a former driver of Al-Qaeda leader Osama
bin Laden, could appeal the verdict in US courts.
"But in the near term, at least, we would consider him an enemy
combatant and still a danger and would likely still be detained
for some period of time thereafter," he said.
Morrell said there were plans for at least 20 more such trials
at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba but he said a significant portion of the
detainees being held there would neither be tried nor released.
He said efforts were being made to reduce the size of the
population through transfers of prisoners to their home
countries for incarceration or release.
"But I think, you know, there are still a significant population
within Guantanamo who will likely never be released because of
the threat they pose to the world, for that matter," he said.
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