U.S. Names More Guant?namo Detainees for Trial, Changes Rules, and Allows First Attorney Meeting for Hamdi

On February 6, 2004, the Pentagon named two more Guant?namo detainees as ready for trial before military tribunals. On February 24, it issued criminal charges against them. The day before it announced it would change some of the rules governing work of lawyers representing detainees. Meanwhile, Yaser Esam Hamdi, the U.S. citizen jailed after his capture with Taliban soldiers, was for the first time on February 4, 2004, given access to counsel...[more]