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In a rebuke, a military judge has disqualified a key Pentagon general from any role overseeing the Guantánamo war crimes trial of Osama bin Laden's driver.
The Pentagon has quietly pulled the plug on plans to post a former Guantánamo prison camps commander to Pakistan, The New York Times reported Friday.
A military judge on Wednesday ruled that Osama bin Laden's driver is permitted to sign a personal plea to alleged senior al Qaeda leaders segregated on this base, despite a U.S. government claim that it would breach national security.
Ten weeks after the Pentagon prosecutor swore out preliminary death penalty charges, Navy defense lawyers have had first talks with the top three alleged 9/11 conspirators.
UP FRONT | WAR ON TERRORISM
Ready or not, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantánamo Bay is mainstream Hollywood's first comedy to lampoon the United States' war on terror.
IN THE PRISON CAMPS
An Arab captive at the Guantánamo Bay prison camps spent about an hour on the phone speaking with his family in Saudi Arabia earlier this month, inaugurating a Pentagon program that lets cooperative ''enemy combatants'' phone home once a year.
IN THE COURTS
The Idaho Statesman reports: Defense team members David Nevin and Scott McKay will be ‘making sure the government plays by the rules’ in the case of Khalid Sheik Mohammed.
The Navy officer assigned to defend reputed al Qaeda kingpin Khalid Sheik Mohammed is assembling a team to stave off the alleged 9/11 mastermind's death-penalty charges -- including two Idaho lawyers who have defended an alleged terrorist before.
U.S. forces, not Canadian teen Omar Khadr, may have lobbed the grenade that killed a U.S. Army medic in a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan, the al Qaeda captive's U.S. Navy lawyer said Friday.
MCCLATCHY EXCLUSIVE
A report on the FBI's role in the interrogations of prisoners in Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay and Iraq has been delayed for months because the Pentagon is reviewing how much of it should remain classified, according to the Justice Department's watchdog.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
A Navy Reserves captain who in private life is a solo law practitioner in Virginia is assigned to defend Khalid Sheik Mohammed at his death-penalty 9/11 trial.
The American Civil Liberties Union, which for years scorned the Pentagon's military commissions as ''kangaroo courts,'' will mount an effort to provide top civilian defense attorneys for alleged terrorists facing trial at Guantánamo.
Even as the U.S. government edges toward full-blown, war-crimes trials by military commission, all sides are grappling with what information can be made public and what must be kept secret.
An American college professor whose Kenyan husband was killed in the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania says a Guantánamo detainee accused in the attack should be tried in a civilian federal court, not by a military commission.
The lawyer for Osama bin Laden's driver argues in a military commissions motion that senior Pentagon officials are orchestrating war crimes prosecutions for the 2008 campaign.
Five former U.S. secretaries of state advised the next president to close down the Guantánamo Bay prison camp and open a dialogue with Iran.
In a new tactic, lawyers for an alleged archterrorist held at Guantánamo argue in an unlawful detention suit that their client is insane -- and that U.S. agents concluded long ago that any intelligence he could provide is unsound.
