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US seeks death penalty for Guantanamo detainees Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba April 25, 2006 - 9:41AM The AGE The US government plans to file charges against 24 more Guantanamo Bay detainees captured in the Bush administration's war against terrorism and will seek the death penalty in some cases, the top military prosecutor says. Air Force Colonel Morris Davis, chief prosecutor for the tribunals being held at this remote US military base in southeastern Cuba, today declined to disclose details about plans to charge the additional detainees. Pretrial hearings were scheduled this week for three of the 10 Guantanamo Bay detainees who have already been charged. The lawyer for one of them said his client was threatening to boycott his military trial unless his confinement conditions were eased. Sufyian Barhoumi, an Algerian charged with plotting attacks against US troops in Afghanistan, was moved last month from a communal living unit to the maximum-security Camp Five, where he was allowed outside his cell for two hours a day and has no communication with other detainees, said Army Captain Wade Faulkner, his military lawyer. "He said that if he wasn't moved by today, he was going to become uncooperative," Faulkner said. Guantanamo Bay officials say detainees who have been charged are moved out of communal living for their own safety and there are no plans to change that policy. "Detainee security and protection is of utmost concern," the military said in a statement. Faulkner, who planned to challenge the transfer to Camp Five at a pretrial hearing on Wednesday, said the harsher conditions were unjustified and undermined the "fragile" relationship between detainees and their appointed military lawyers. "Every little thing just chips away at the relationship," he said. "We make progress. We get some trust built up and something happens ... It's one step forward, two steps back." Davis said boycotts like the one threatened by Barhoumi won't derail the trials. "The process is going to move forward," he said. Another detainee, Ali Hamza Ahmad Sulayman al-Bahlul, has refused to attend pretrial hearings following the denial of his request to represent himself or be defended by a lawyer from his native Yemen. The US holds about 490 detainees at Guantanamo Bay for alleged links to al-Qaeda or the Taliban. The military says it plans to release about 140 detainees, but has given no timeframe. Prisoners in Camp Five are kept in solid-wall single cells and are allowed outside from 5am to 7am, Faulkner said. In Camp Four, small groups of detainees live in dorm-like rooms clustered around an area where they can play group sports. The area is reserved for the most compliant prisoners or those who are soon to be released. Conditions at the prison vary depending on detainees' behaviour and their perceived intelligence value. The largest number are in Camp One, where prisoners are kept in steel-mesh cells and can talk among themselves. Those who behave can graduate to Camp Four, the second largest. Pretrial hearings are also scheduled this week for Ghassan Abdullah al Sharbi and Jabran Said bin al-Qahtani, both of Saudi Arabia. Al-Sharbi, an electrical engineering graduate from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona, and al-Qahtani are charged along with Barhoumi of one count each of conspiracy for allegedly plotting attacks against troops and civilians as members of al-Qaeda. They face up to life in prison if convicted. AP [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? 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