Regardless, it will be a new test case for the tribunal, which lost its most important defendant, Slobodan Milosevic, the former Serbian president, when he died in his cell in 2006 before a verdict was reached.
Marc Trévidic and Edmond Brunaud, the judges investigating the case for the Paris Tribunal de Grande Instance, a superior court, found that there were no grounds for proceeding with indictments for terrorism or terrorism-related finance, according to the documents, which were dated Wednesday.
These are powerful levers which other governments and the UN can use in an effort to persuade him of the case for an international tribunal.
The very idea of tossing out the months of work put into the federal case for a military tribunal for which the administration wrote the rules and in which many rights would be forfeited is outrageous.
The fact that the Justice Department did not talk with the Pentagon about how to handle a major case that had been perceived as a likely test case for a military tribunal is significant because it suggests what Senator John W. Warner, Republican of Virginia, referred to as potential "frictions" between the departments.
The proceedings are being held at the Landsdomur court in the first case for the Reykjavik-based tribunal.
But in this case, a tribunal for the trial of the offence, wherever it may have been committed, had been provided by congress; and at the place where the prisoners were seized by the authority of the commander in chief, there existed such a tribunal.
The cases have emerged only days after Dr Raj Mattu, a cardiologist, won an employment tribunal case for unfair dismissal following a 12-year battle with University Hospital Coventry.
Although the Human Rights Act cannot be relied upon directly against a private employer, tribunals are public authorities within the meaning of the act, so Article 8 of the ECHR could be relied upon in any tribunal case for unfair dismissal.
She was forced to argue her case for disability pay after a tribunal claimed if she wanted to work she could lose weight.
