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Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Obama inauguration could put a stop to Guantanamo trials AFP - 2 hours 8 minutes ago GUANTANAMO BAY US NAVAL BASE, Cuba, (AFP) - - With Barack Obama set to shut down the controversial "war on terror" detention camp after his inauguration, Guantanamo Bay detainees could see their military commissions trials canceled. A full week of pretrial hearings are to begin Monday at the US naval base. A mental competence hearing is scheduled for Ramzi bin al-Shibh, alleged co-conspirator of the Sepbtemter 11, 2001 attacks. All five men charged with plotting the attacks are expected to appear at the hearing. In December, the self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-defendants said they would submit guilty pleas to terror charges pending mental competency evaluations. Judge Stephen Henley said the defendants also wanted to dismiss their tribunal-appointed attorneys. Should the guilty pleas go forward, the men could be sentence to death. Evidentiary motions are also planned for Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen arrested in Afghanistan when he was 15 years old for allegedly killing a US soldier with a hand grenade. His trial has been set to begin on January 26. But experts predict the trial may never take place. "The military commissions are going to be stopped next Tuesday or Wednesday. It is expectable that the process is going to be stopped ... before it (the Khadr trial) starts," said Sarah Mendelson, a human rights and security expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Mandated by Congress in 2006, the military commissions were established by the administration of President George W. Bush to try unlawful enemy combatants. The controversial system allows convictions based on classified evidence, hearsay and evidence obtained under coercion. Of the 245 inmates still held at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, only about 20 have been charged, including the five men accused of conspiring to plot the 9/11 attacks. On Saturday, the Defense Department announced that five prisoners had been transferred abroad; four to Iraq and one to Algeria, adding that the transfer was "a demonstration of the United States' desire not to hold detainees any longer than necessary." Obama, who takes office on Tuesday, will likely make good on his campaign promise and shutter Guantanamo by issuing an executive order suspending Bush's military commissions system for trying detainees, according to reports. However, it could take several months to fully close down the detention camp, as US officials will have to transfer some of the 248 prisoners there to other countries and then decide whether to try the remaining suspects. Obama has acknowledged that closing the camp will take longer than many of his supporters had hoped. Attorney general designate Eric Holder said at his Senate confirmation Thursday that the Obama team was already taking steps to prepare to close the "war on terror" prison. "Guantanamo will be closed," Holder said. He declined to give a date for the closure, but said that "steps are being taken as we speak." He also said that "waterboarding is torture," marking a dramatic departure from the Bush administration. The CIA has admitted to using the simulated drowning technique on alleged 9/11 plotters. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that Susan Crawford, the convening authority on military commissions, recognized that suspected 9/11 co-conspirator Mohammed al-Qahtani had been tortured, making her the first Bush administration official to publicly state that a detainee had been tortured. Crawford said al-Qahtani could not be put on trial. "We tortured Qahtani," Crawford told the newspaper. "His treatment met the legal definition of torture. And that's why I did not refer the case" for prosecution. Holder said the military commissions would be "substantially revamped" or replaced by a new system that improves the due-process rights of detainees. Established in early 2002 following the US-led offensive in Afghanistan, the Guantanamo Bay detention facility was designed to hold suspected terrorists who the Bush administration claimed were not covered by the Geneva Conventions for treatment of prisoners of war because they were "enemy combatants," fighting for a non-state organization. Over the years, some 800 detainees have gone through Guantanamo, including 520 transferred to other countries to be held or released. 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