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To: calgal who wrote (517529)	12/30/2003 7:22:12 PM
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Retired General to Oversee Gitmo Tribunals Tuesday, December 30, 2003 WASHINGTON — A retired Army general will oversee military tribunals for suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay (search), Cuba, including approving charges, the Pentagon said Tuesday. Chosen for the job was John D. Altenburg, Jr., who retired as a two-star general in 2002. His last military assignment was assistant judge advocate general for the Department of the Army. Altenburg takes over for Paul Wolfowitz (search), the deputy secretary of defense, who had been overseeing the tribunal process. The Pentagon also announced that Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas L. Hemingway will be Altenburg's legal adviser. Hemingway retired from the Air Force in 1996 and was recalled to active duty last summer. He has served as a staff judge advocate at several levels in the Air Force and was a senior judge on the Air Force Court of Military Review (search) as well as director of the Air Force Judiciary (search). The Pentagon also named the first four members of a review panel that would hear appeals of cases decided by military tribunals. They are: — Griffin B. Bell, the former U.S. attorney general in the Carter administration and former U.S. circuit judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. — Edward G. Biester, a Court of Common Pleas judge in Bucks County, Pa. He also is a former Pennsylvania attorney general and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives. — William T. Coleman, Jr., a former secretary of transportation. — Frank Williams, chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court. One or more additional review panel members may be named later, officials said. The steps announced by the Pentagon on Tuesday were the last major procedural steps planned before one or more of the terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station is charged and brought to trial. URL:http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,107002,00.html