Judge to decide if Guantanamo case will resume

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Judge to decide if Guantanamo case will resume
By Ben Fox
The Associated Press
© February 9, 2015

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba

A military judge is trying to decide whether the attempt to prosecute five prisoners at Guantanamo Bay for the Sept. 11 attacks can resume after stalling for nearly a year because of the revelation that the FBI questioned defense team staff.

The five defendants were back in court Monday for a hearing focused on whether more time is required to explore any potential conflict of interest arising from the apparent FBI investigation, the nature and scope of which has not been publicly disclosed.

But the hearing came to an abrupt halt just minutes after it started. Defendant Ramzi Binalshibh told the judge that a new translator was someone he recognized from one of the CIA "black sites" overseas where he was held in secret detention and subjected to treatment widely considered torture during his interrogation.

"The problem is I cannot trust him because he was working at a black site with the CIA and you know I am from there," Binalshibh, a 42-year-old from Yemen who was captured in Pakistan in 2002, said in English.