Obama orders immediate halt to Guantanamo prosecutions
January 21, 2009 at 1:41 pm by Stephen Hammill
In between inaugural balls yesterday, President Obama ordered an immediate halt to the Bush administration’s military commissions system for prosecuting detainees at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Notice came just before midnight Tuesday. The decision is described as a pause in all war-crimes proceedings.
The decision will temporarily stop the prosecution of five detainees charged as the coordinators of the Sept. 11 attacks, including the case against Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.
