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Thomas Watkins
AFP / Mladen Antonov

As long as it takes

Wednesday 27 January 2016

It has been eight years since the United States first charged five men with plotting the September 11, 2001 attacks and killing nearly 3,000 people. If it isn’t already, their case will soon become the longest prosecution in US history. 

On a visit to the US Guantanamo naval base in Cuba, where the court proceedings are taking place, AFP's Pentagon correspondent Thomas Watkins finds out why.

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