911 victims' families and Guantanamo US military tribunal farce

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Guantanamo Sees Extraordinary Day - BBC

"Michael Berrigan - the deputy chief defence counsel - called it a "show trial" driven by politics, not the rule of law.It was, he added, the "death throes" of the military commissions process.

Thomas Durkin, the civilian lawyer for Ramzi Binalshibh, went one step further, asking why the families were being invited now?

He claimed it was an attempt to "politically blackmail" President-elect Barack Obama."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7772530.stm