检方希望无法或不愿前往关塔那摩的证人远程作证。辩方要求告知陪审员，无论被告有罪与否，都不会被释放。
Prosecutors want remote testimony for witnesses unable or unwilling to travel to Guantánamo. The defense wants jurors to be told that, guilty or innocent, the defendant will not go free.
关塔那摩湾的美国军事法庭是独一无二的，今年即将开庭审理的这一案件充分说明了其异常之处。
The U.S. war court at Guantánamo Bay is a court like no other, and the one case that is headed to trial this year illustrates just how unusual it is.
首先，该案——科尔号驱逐舰爆炸案——的许多证人很可能通过视频作证。
For starters, many witnesses in the case — the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole — are likely to testify by video.
法律专家称，美国死刑审判要求证人亲自出庭作证。但法庭只能强制政府雇员前往古巴的美国海军基地，参加一名沙特囚犯的审判，该囚犯被指控策划了2000年10月12日炸死17名水手的爆炸案。
Legal experts say U.S. death-penalty trials require in-person testimony. But the court can only compel government employees to travel to the U.S. Navy base in Cuba for the trial of a Saudi prisoner who is accused in the bombing that killed 17 sailors on Oct. 12, 2000.
被告阿卜杜勒-拉希姆·纳希里被指控策划了该袭击。即使他被判无罪，法庭也无法释放他。
The defendant, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, is charged with orchestrating the attack. Even if he is found not guilty, the court cannot set him free.
纳希里可作为战时拘留者在美与基地组织的冲突中被无限期拘留，一个与法庭无关的国家安全审查小组有权决定哪些关塔那摩被拘留者过于危险而不能释放，或可移交给他国羁押。
Mr. Nashiri can be held indefinitely as a wartime detainee in the U.S. conflict with Al Qaeda, and a national security review panel with no connection to the court has the authority to decide which Guantánamo detainees are too dangerous to let go or which can be sent to the custody of another country.
辩护律师在上周提交的文件中写道，被选为陪审员的美国军官应被告知关塔那摩拘留的这一异常方面。“这与任何美国人对任何刑事诉讼的理解背道而驰，”他们表示。
The U.S. military officers who are chosen for the jury should be informed about that unusual aspect of Guantánamo detention, the defense lawyers wrote in a filing last week. “It runs contrary to how any American would understand any criminal proceeding to occur,” they said.