Death penalty ruled out for five Guantanamo Bay prisoners

The US will not seek the death penalty against any of the five Guantanamo Bay prisoners charged this week, the Pentagon says.

The charges against Canadian Omar Ahmed Khadr, two Saudis, an Algerian and an Ethiopian brought to nine the number of inmates formally accused of crimes.

The nine cases are scheduled to be decided by a military commission, in the first such US war crimes trials since World War II.