US military commissions to try terrorism suspects could be revived as early as this summer, reported the Washington Post Saturday, but with increased legal protections for the accused.
Those commissions had been set up by the George W Bush administration to try inmates at the holding facility in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, but had come under heavy criticism for placing more emphasis on protecting classified sources than on the rights of the convicted.

Copyright Deutsche Presse-Agentur, 2009

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