Guantanamo Bay hearing stalls over legal row

A pre-trial hearing for five Guantanamo Bay 9/11 suspects stalled yesterday when one of them asked how to represent himself in the death penalty case.

Walid bin Attash, a Yemeni accused of running an al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan, told his attorneys he no longer trusted them and asked the court how he might represent himself.

“We have so many problems in the camp that take precedence over anything we are discussing here in the court,” bin Attash said through an interpreter before the judge, Army Colonel James Pohl, silenced him due to security concerns.