Despite a murky future, military judges in a Guantanamo war crimes court will move ahead with hearings against five men accused of orchestrating the 9/11 attacks.

Pretrial motions will be heard starting today after military judges rejected a request from prosecutors and defense lawyers to postpone the hearings until after Barack Obama's inauguration.

The hearings could take several days.

Many expect Obama to soon suspend the military commission system created by Congress and President Bush in 2006. Obama's nominee for attorney general, Eric Holder, even told the Senate Judiciary Committee the commissions lack sufficient legal protections for those charged.

The Pentagon's chief war crimes prosecutor says he doesn't know what Obama will do, so he has to plan as if the commissions will go forward.