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Title: Sept. 11 hearing: Haggling over rights, secrecy
Post by: NewsCaster on Oct 17, 2012, 12:31 AM
(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/121016-ramzi-binalshibh-415p.photoblog600.jpg)Janet Hamlin / APGuantanamo prisoner Ramzi Binalshibh, right, sits with a court translator and his lawyer Navy Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Bogucki, left, during a Military Commissions pretrial hearing for five prisoners accused of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Tuesday.By NBC News' Courtney Kube and wire servicesThe military tribunal of 9/11 terrorism suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-conspirators resumed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on Tuesday, plunged into arguments over one of the thorniest subjects that the court must iron out before the trial — whether the suspects can talk about their detention and harsh interrogation in secret CIA prisons prior to their transfer to Guantanamo Bay in 2006.

Follow @NBCNewsUS (http://twitter.com/NBCNewsUS)The men are accused of planning and providing logistical support for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks by hijackers who crashed planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania, killing nearly 3,000 people.

Mohammed and the other four who are portrayed as his underlings face charges that include terrorism and murder, and they could be sentenced to death if convicted.

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