Secrecy squabbles disrupt U.S. Guantanamo hearing in 9/11 case


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  • Friday, 21 Jun 2013

Detainees talk together inside the open-air yard at the Camp 4 detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, May 31, 2009. REUTERS/Brennan Linsley/Pool

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Secrecy disputes disrupted a pre-trial hearing on Thursday in the Guantanamo U.S. war crimes tribunal for five prisoners charged with plotting the September 11 hijacked plane attacks in 2001.

Defence attorneys said the audio feed to the spectators' gallery had briefly been cut, as was the feed that provides Arabic-to-English translation to the defendants, who include the alleged mastermind of the attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

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