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U.S. terrorism trials to continue despite court

WASHINGTON | Thu Jun 12, 2008 6:11pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. military commission trials of Guantanamo prison inmates charged with terrorism will continue despite a Supreme Court ruling expanding the rights of detainees, the Justice Department said on Thursday.

Department spokesman Peter Carr said the ruling involved the status of detainees held as enemy combatants during continuing hostilities, and not the trials themselves.

"Those enemy combatants who have been charged by a military commission with war crimes are afforded numerous additional protections in connection with those trials. Military commission trials will therefore continue to go forward," he said.

(Reporting by Randall Mikkelsen, editing by Todd Eastham)
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