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Guantnamo officials: Business as usual as court rules
2006-07-01
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- It was a business as usual today at the sprawling Caribbean-front prison camps, even as the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional President Bush's formula for Military Commissions held in on-again, off-again fashion here since 2004. Prison camp commanders said there would be no immediate response on the ground about the high court decision that ruled as illegitimate the format prosecuting 10 of the 450 or so captives here on war crimes as alleged al Qaeda co-conspirators. But the prison camps commander Rear Adm. Harry Harris Jr. has repeatedly said that, whatever the outcome, the U.S. military mission of guarding captives, interrogating them and providing basic services would continue. ''The case before the Supreme Court is not about whether we should have Guantánamo as a detention facility,'' Harris told the Herald before the decision.
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