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Friday, January 23, 2009

By Carol Rosenberg
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — Just hours in office, President Barack Obama late Tuesday sought a 120-day freeze in the war crimes trial of alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed to give the new administration time to study ongoing war-on-terror prosecutions.

Pentagon prosecutor Clayton Trivett filed the motion seeking a 120-day continuance in the Sept. 11 death penalty case of five alleged al-Qaida co-conspirators at 8:51 p.m.

From wikipedia:
Subhas Chandra Bose (born January 23, 1897; presumed to have died August 18, 1945 although this is disputed), popularly known as Netaji (literally "Respected Leader"), is one of the most respected politicians of modern India.

Bose was elected president of the Indian National Congress for two consecutive terms but resigned from the post following ideological conflicts with Mahatma Gandhi. Bose believed that Mahatma Gandhi's tactics of non-violence would never be sufficient to secure India's independence, and advocated violent resistance. He established a separate political party, the All India Forward Bloc and continued to call for the full and immediate independence of India from British rule. He was imprisoned by the British authorities eleven times.

Read Subhas Chandra Bose and India's Struggle for Independence, by Andrew Montgomery, free from the Institute of Historical Review.