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(8 Nov 2005)

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1. Wide and close-up exterior view of U.S. Supreme Court
2. Wide and close-up undated photograph of Hamdan

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - 24 August 2004
3. Various views of room where military tribunals scheduled to be held

Washington, DC - 7 November 2005
4. Pull back view from court brief to attorney David Rems
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) David Rems, Attorney for retired military personnel supporting Hamdan case:
"The Bush administration opposed the review, so it is definitely not something that the government wanted. The government asked the court to put the case on hold essentially until after Hamdan had been tried and then maybe address the issues at that time. The court obviously felt the issues had to be addressed now."

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Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - 24 August 2004
6. Various court sketches of Hamdan tribunal hearing

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Washington, DC - 7 November 2005
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) David Rems, Attorney for retired military personnel supporting Hamdan case:
"This case will undoubtedly produce an opinion that will have far reaching consequences. The issue here is whether or not the Geneva Conventions are judicially enforceable in courts of the United States. The question is whether the President can unilaterally decide to whom to comply the conventions and to whom to deny their protections. And finally just on the merits the question of whether the particular military commissions that the government wants to try Hamdan, satisfy the Geneva Conventions."

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - 24 August 2004
8. Wide view of gate
9. Wide and close-up of detainees

Washington, DC - 7 November 2005
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) David Rems, Attorney for retired military personnel supporting Hamdan case:
"I would expect that Hamdan's tribunal will be put on hold until the Supreme Court and I would predict that the other men who have been targeted for trial before these commissions will also be put on hold."

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - 24 August 2004
11. Wide view of fenced area
12. Close-up detainee's hands with worry beads

STORYLINE:

In a major test of the U.S. government's wartime powers, the Supreme Court agreed on Monday to consider a challenge to the Bush administration's military tribunals for foreign terror suspects.

Judges will decide whether Osama bin Laden's former driver can be tried for war crimes before military officers
in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The case of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni, brought a new issue to the court, the rights of foreigners who have been charged and face a military trial.

This type of proceeding has been resurrected from the era of World War II.

Retired military leaders, foreign legislators, historians and other groups had pressed the Supreme Court to review the case of Hamdan, who like many Guantanamo inmates began a hunger strike over the summer.

Attorney David Rems, who represents some of the retired military leaders, says the Supreme Court ruling on the matter will have far reaching implications.

Rems predicted by the Supreme Court taking up the Hamdan matter that a number of tribunals scheduled to start in the near future will be delayed.

Trial of Hamdan and three other low-level suspects were interrupted last fall when a judge in Washington said the proper process had not been followed.

The men are among about 500 foreigners, many swept up in the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, who have been held at the U.S. military prison in Cuba.




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