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Guantanamo Bay - The United States military is building a mobile courtroom complex on an unused runway at the Guantanamo Bay naval base and plans to be ready by March to conduct as many as three terrorism trials at a time.
The US$10 million ($14.78 million) project will add two new courtrooms to the existing one, which is being fitted with a new computer projection system to display evidence for the war crimes tribunals set up to try suspected al Qaeda operatives held at the US naval base in eastern Cuba.
Pentagon officials have said they plan to try as many as 80 of the 355 Guantanamo prisoners on war crimes charges, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, whom the US military said has confessed to plotting the attacks on September 11, 2001.
So far, Australian prisoner David Hicks is the only person convicted in the Guantanamo tribunals.
- Reuters
