Lawyers for the alleged
mastermind
of the 9/11 attacks in the United States, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, have publicly challenged the fairness of the military
tribunal
at Guantanamo Bay prison camp. On Saturday, the military court heard formal charges against him and four other men accused of plotting with him. The lawyers told reporters that the court was censoring evidence of torture the men suffered while in American custody. Steve Kingstone reports from Guantanamo.
The defense council at Guantanamo are a mix of military and civilian lawyers who address reporters together. They complained of what they called 'assembly line justice' protected by a 'veil of secrecy', which they say prevents them from raising in court the treatment of the defendants while in US custody. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was repeatedly water-boarded at secret CIA prisons before being brought to Guantanamo. His lawyer David Nevin said everything is being done to prevent this from being fair.
Customs officials in Bulgaria say they've seized a cocaine shipment worth about $70m. They said 67 kilos of the illicit drug were discovered inside a harvesting machine being delivered by a container ship from Argentina to the Netherlands. Correspondents say Bulgaria has recently
stepped up
customs checks to help it secure membership of the visa-free Schengen Area in Europe.
And a player for the Argentine first division football team Banfield has been accidentally killed by a