Agence France-Presse,
GUANTANAMO BAY: Prosecutors are to call on military judges to suspend cases before Guantanamo Bay military commissions for 120 days at the request of President Barack Obama, a document said.
“In the interests of justice, and at the direction of the president of the United States and the secretary of defense, the government respectfully requests the military commission grant a continuance of the proceedings in the above-captioned case until 20 May 2009,” said the document to be put forward by prosecutors Wednesday.
Prosecutor Stephen Henley is in charge of the case of five men charged with having helped organize the September 11, 2001 attacks.
The second prosecutor Patrick Parrish is examining the case of Omar Khadr, a Canadian arrested when he was 15 in Afghanistan accused of killing a soldier.
Obama, who was sworn in on Tuesday, has vowed to close the hated military camp used to house “war on terror” suspects and which became a symbol of US excesses around the world.
