Pentagon officials said Friday that they had finished writing rules for trying terrorist suspects in military tribunals.
Two months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in Washington and New York, US President George W. Bush authorized the establishment of tribunals -- also called military commissions -- to try foreign suspects in the counter-terror war. The effort to write the rules under which the commissions would operate has taken a year and a half.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the officials said they have some suspects in mind who might be candidates for military trials. They offered no number of trials planned, nor date they might start and said no final decisions have been made.
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