From Nasdaq:
WASHINGTON (AFP)--Six Algerians detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for the last seven years are to become on Thursday the first prisoners to challenge their continued imprisonment in a U.S. federal court.
The prison at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, where some 800 men classified as "enemy combatants" have been held without trial, is a central piece of outgoing President George W. Bush's "war on terror."
After years of legal wrangling, the U.S. Supreme Court in June granted Guantanamo detainees access to the civil court system and the right to file Habeas Corpus cases challenging their detention. The case of the Algerians is the first of a series of such cases.
"It is not a trial over these men being guilty or innocent, it is only a trial about whether the president can say legally that based on these facts and this law, 'I have a basis for holding these men'," defense lawyer Robert Kirsch said.
Some 250 prisoners remain in the military base, and all of them have started Habeas Corpus challenges.
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My Comment: It is going to take another 5 years before all of this is resolved.