From BBC News
By Paul Reynolds

The US Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay perhaps heralds the beginning of what will be a long-drawn out endgame for the camp.

Ironically, the ruling might make this endgame even longer, because the likely outcome is that the Bush administration will have to get an agreement with Congress on how to try those suspects who would otherwise have faced the tribunals - or “commissions” as they are called.

It may be that a new form of commission will be set up, one that more closely complies with the rules of the US military justice code.

This is the route advocated by Justice Stevens, who wrote the majority opinion. The rules as currently drawn up, he declared, were “illegal”.

By that he meant that the safeguards available in the military code for a court martial were superior to those available under a commission. And he slapped down the executive’s right to make such rules by itself.

But getting congressional agreement will take time.

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