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Obama Revives Military Tribunals

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WASHINGTON (May 15) — In an apparent reversal, President Barack Obama is reviving the much-criticized military tribunals for Guantanamo Bay detainees and promising to make changes to the system that could jeopardize his timetable for closing the prison by January.
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President Barack Obama will restart military tribunals for a small number of Guantanamo detainees, reviving a Bush-era trial system he once assailed as flawed but with new legal protections for terror suspects, U.S. officials said.