Court backs military trials for terrorist suspects Associated Press http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3267635 WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court put the Bush administration's military commissions for terrorist suspects back on track today, saying a detainee at the Guantanamo Bay prison who once was Osama bin-Laden's driver can stand trial. A three-judge panel ruled 3-0 against Salim Ahmed Hamdan, whose case was halted by a federal judge on grounds that commission procedures were unlawful. ~ I would predict that this AP story gets zero media coverage beyond local; i.e., Houston Chronicle et al., the national boys (CNN, ABC, CBS, and NBC) will touch upon it lightly if at all! Nevertheless, a big win for tribunals and Bush's policy!
Minneapolis Star-Tribune USA Today NY Times http://www.hearstcorp.com/newspapers/property/news_daily_houston.html If the Houston Chronicle is a "local" paper, what qualifies as a national paper?
It's on their site. Since the AP story was filed around noon today, it won't be in today's paper. http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-security-guantanamo.html
Thank you SoFla Metro! I stand corrected... the Times did cover it! My bad! (maybe they've accepted the inevitable after all)
Once again, however, it would appear that the Washington Times is continuing with its blackout of news important to ITN.
CNN has it as one of the headlines at the top of their web page, bright guy. http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/07/15/terror.ruling.ap/index.html