In a press statement made to reporters in the the Czech Republic Gordon Johndroe, spokesman for the National Security Council disagreed with the decision by two military judges to drop war crimes charges against two detainees at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

On Monday, Omar Khadr, 20, the young Canadian imprisoned at Gutanamo Bay, Cuba, was cleared of charges, as a US military said his case did not fall under the authority of the military commission.

Khadr, who is the son of Ahmed Khadr, one of Osama bin Laden’ deputies, was 15 years old at the time of his capture. Omar Khadr decided freely to join al-Qaeda after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

In another case a man alleged to have been Osama bin Laden's driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan of Yemen, 34, was also cleared of charges.

The judges ruled that the two suspects could not be tried under the new military commission law because they had been classified only as "enemy combatants" under the previous system in 2004 and 2005. The new system requires them to be classified as "alien unlawful enemy combatants."

"This is really a technicality to codify that they are indeed unlawful enemy combatants," Gordon said in a telephone interview. "The government's view, the prosecution's view, is that it is implicit in the initial procedures of 2004 and 2005 that (the suspects) were unlawful."

According to Gordon Johndroe Monday's rulings did not mean a setback for the White House.