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: How Appealing"Jury is out for Hamdan -- and the tribunal process; The first person to be tried in a military tribunal at Guantanamo will remain incarcerated no matter the verdict; Concerns remain about the procedure's fairness"
"Jury is out for Hamdan -- and the tribunal process; The first person to be tried in a military tribunal at Guantanamo will remain incarcerated no matter the verdict; Concerns remain about the procedure's fairness": Carol J. Williams has this news analysis today in The Los Angeles Times.
And in The Washington Post, today's installment of Shankar Vedantam's "Department of Human Behavior" column is entitled "How Terrorist Organizations Work Like Clubs."
Full post as published by How Appealing on August 04, 2008 (boomark / email).

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