In moving the proceedings away from a military tribunal to a federal court we destroy this fundamental moral distinction between belligerents and nonbelligerents.
Avenues of defense, experts said, could include the military equivalent of an insanity plea, petitioning for a change of venue to take the proceedings away from the emotions of Fort Hood, and delaying the proceedings to allow the passions to ebb.
Mr President, I too of course am greatly concerned by the arrest of more than 70 dissidents, among them journalists and leaders of the illegal opposition parties, including the leaders of our two sister liberal parties in Cuba, which are also members of Liberal International, and the excessively long custodial sentences given to them in legal proceedings held away from the public gaze.
Echoing President Bush, they say they do not want to disrupt the proceedings or draw attention away from the families.
Outside Baruch College in midtown Manhattan, a small group of protesters, calling for an end to the city's hardline "broken windows" strategy of total policing, were kept away from proceedings by police.
But move south, half a world away from proceedings in The Hague, and that very success is being undermined by the rise in prominence of another indicted war criminal who, through short-sighted, quick-fix thinking, has found himself as "deputy co-ordinator" of a UN-backed military offensive against Hutu rebels.
Carmen's brother and sister have both momentarily slipped away from the proceedings.
The two sides enjoyed the customary post-match dinner but the Italians drifted away from the proceedings early enough.
Mr. Mohammed and two other defendants stayed away from the proceedings, which reporters watched on a closed-circuit video feed at Guantánamo and at Fort Meade outside Washington.
The new trial has become so fraught that the district attorney wants to bring in an outsider to keep his own rival, the California attorney general, away from the proceedings.
New Orleans Saints Coach Sean Payton was the most vocal about his displeasure with Tuesday's vote to change overtime rules in the postseason, but he reflected the frustration of several coaches who said they felt owners rushed to approve the change while coaches and general managers were away from the proceedings.
