A hundred canvas tents pitched on a weed-choked airfield to house an army of lawyers and journalists stand mostly empty, even as air conditioning blasts through them to keep iguanas and large rodents at bay.一百帆布帐篷投了杂草哽咽机场安置的军队律师和新闻记者的立场是空的，甚至爆炸空调通过他们保持鬣蜥和大型啮齿动物拒之门外。

Only three reporters showed up this week for the trial of Osama bin Laden’s alleged communications specialist, in contrast to the dozens at earlier hearings.只有三个记者表明了这个星期的审判乌萨马本拉丹的指控通信专家，相比之下，早先的几十听证会。

With the clock running out on the Bush administration, so too is it ticking for America’s six-year attempt to try what it called “the worst of the worst” for crimes of war.随着时间一分一秒对布什政府，所以它也是滴答美国的6年的尝试尝试所谓“最坏的”最差的战争罪行。

“It is getting quiet here,” lamented Kiplin Rall, a Jamaican managing a small convenience store in a rusting hangar at Camp Justice. “这是在这里得到平静， ”遗憾Kiplin Rall ，牙买加管理一个小便利店在一个锈迹斑斑的营棚司法。

Barack Obama and John McCain have both pledged, if elected, to close the offshore prison at Guantanamo Bay.奥巴马和麦凯恩都承诺，如果当选，关闭海外监狱在关塔那摩湾。 Amnesty International Secretary-General Irene Khan urged whoever wins to make good on that promise in his first 100 days in office.大赦国际秘书长艾琳汗敦促谁胜兑现这一承诺在他的头100天的办公室。

The current trial, which charges Ali Hamza al-Bahlul with being bin Laden’s media specialist, is only the second held since then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld outlined the initial rules in March 2002.目前的审判，指控哈姆扎阿里基地，与正在Bahlul拉登的媒体专家，仅是第二次举行了自那时以来，美国国防部长拉姆斯菲尔德阐述了初步的规则在2002年3月。

Only one more is scheduled before Bush’s term ends on Jan. 20: a relatively minor case that charges an Afghan with wounding two US soldiers and their interpreter when he was 16 or 17 in 2002.只有一个更是在布什的任期将于今年1月20日：一个相对较小的情况下，收费阿富汗伤人两名美军士兵和他们的翻译时，他是16或17在2002年。 A judge threw out his confession this week because it was obtained through torture.一名法官驳回了他的供词这个星期，因为它是通过酷刑。

In all, 255 men are being held at Guantanamo, the great majority without charges.在所有255名男子被关押在关塔那摩的，绝大多数没有受到指控。 Army Col. Lawrence Morris, Guantanamo’s chief prosecutor, said two dozen cases are at various stages, with another dozen or so moving toward charges.陆军上校劳伦斯莫里斯，关塔那摩首席检察官说， 24个案件处于不同阶段，另外还有十几走向收费。

But Morris’ predecessor, retired Air Force Col. Morris Davis, said those cases will likely never be brought forward as war-crimes trials, known as military commissions, at Guantanamo Bay.但是，莫里斯的前任，退休空军上校莫里斯戴维斯说，这些案件将可能永远不会提出的战争罪行的审判，被称为军事委员会在关塔那摩湾。 He said trials could conceivably be held elsewhere, but the system would need to be fundamentally changed for that to happen.他说，可以想象的审判定于其他地方，但该系统将需要从根本上改变要做到这一点。

“Whoever wins next week should ask the Bush administration to suspend the military commissions since the winner inherits all the mess that piles up from now until Inauguration Day,” said Davis, who quit last year complaining of political interference. “无论谁胜下周应该要求布什政府停止军事委员会的赢家，因为继承了所有的混乱是桩了从现在到就职日， ”戴维斯说，谁退出抱怨去年的政治干扰。

The Pentagon declined to comment on the future of the trials.五角大楼拒绝对此发表评论未来的审判。 A spokesman, Navy Cmdr.发言人，海军少校。 Jeffrey Gordon, instead referred to a statement he made last summer, when he said the United States is trying to decrease Guantanamo’s prison population and doesn’t want to be the world’s jailer.杰弗里戈登，而不是提到了讲话去年夏天，当他说，美国正试图减少关塔那摩的监狱人口，不希望成为世界的狱卒。

The heyday for journalists seems to be history.在鼎盛时期的记者似乎成为历史。 Only months ago, the military periodically flew dozens of print reporters, TV crews, pool photographers and sketch artists to Guantanamo Bay from Andrews Air Force Base near Washington.仅几个月前，军事定期飞到几十打印记者，电视台的工作人员，集中摄影师和艺术家素描关塔那摩湾的安德鲁斯空军基地在华盛顿附近。

Once they landed in the arid heat, they were met by soldiers who shepherded them in buses and a boat across the bay to a press room to watch court proceedings on a big-screen TV.一旦他们降落在干旱高温，他们会见了谁的士兵引导他们在巴士和船湾各地的记者室观看法院诉讼程序的大屏幕电视。 Military public affairs officers stood by to answer questions.军事公共事务官员站在回答问题。

At night, the journalists were ferried back across the bay to their Combined Bachelor Quarters, where they shared drinks and conversation before bed.夜晚，在记者被运送回整个海湾的结合单身宿舍，在那里他们共同的饮料和谈话之前睡觉。

These days, the military press liaisons outnumber the journalists.这些天来，军事新闻联络员的记者人数。 Only reporters from AP, Reuters and the Miami Herald were present for this week’s trial.只有记者从美联社，路透社和迈阿密先驱报人出席本星期的审判。

The reporters don’t stay across the bay during the hearings anymore.记者不留在海湾的听证会期间了。 Now, they sleep in tents erected on a cracked, abandoned airstrip near the two courthouses.现在，他们睡在帐篷里竖立了裂痕，被遗弃的简易机场附近的两个法院。 Camp Justice has roughly 100 tents, each with six beds.司法部营约100顶帐篷，每6个床位。

Overhead, turkey vultures soar on thermal updrafts, as if waiting for the whole affair to roll over, legs up.架空，土耳其秃鹰飙升热updrafts ，仿佛等待整个事件减少了，腿了。

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