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Guantanamo suspects await rights verdict
Decision to determine legal rights of five men accused of plotting 9/11 attacks could shape their trial.
Last Modified: 15 Oct 2012 23:35

Families of 9/11 victims are tuning into the the pre-trial hearing of five men charged in the September 2001 attacks.

A military commission will determine the legal rights of the suspects. It is a decision that could very well shape the upcoming trial.

Al Jazeera's Rosiland Jordan reports.

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