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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — The Pentagon took its new $12 million war court complex for a test run Wednesday while arraigning an alleged al-Qaeda propagandist. But the state-of-the-art facility was plagued by technical tribulations.
At one point, the windowless maximum-security tribunal chamber lost power, and bells sent guards scurrying to surround detainee Ali Hamza al-Bahlul.
Al-Bahlul, 39, sat unmoving and unshackled in his tan prison camp uniform. He stonily rejected the authority of the court, said he was proud of his service to al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, and declared a boycott. He is the fifth detainee to declare a trial boycott. McClatchy Newspapers
