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Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, legal advisor to the convening authority, Office of Military Commissions, meets reporters at the Pentagon, Monday, March 31,2008 announces formal charges against a Guantánamo prisoner with war crimes for the deadly 1998 al QaEda attack on the American embassy in Tanzania.
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Disqualified general won't quit tribunals

A Pentagon official said Wednesday that he will not resign as legal advisor to war-crimes tribunals at Guantánamo, despite his removal from the trial of Osama bin Laden's driver because of a lack of impartiality.

  • This artist rendering shows Solicitor General Paul Clement, the Bush administration's top Supreme Court lawyer, right, during oral arguments at the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007, as the court heard arguments about the rights of prisoners being detained at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

    President Bush's solicitor general stepping down

    U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement announced his resignation Wednesday, ending a seven-year run of arguing the Bush administration's terrorism and detention cases and other controversial legal positions before the Supreme Court.

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  • Freed Al Jazeera cameraman is back home in Sudan

    An Al Jazeera cameraman was released from U.S. custody at Guantánamo Bay and returned home to Sudan early Friday after six years of imprisonment that drew worldwide protests.

  • Army judge rejects Canadian's 'child soldier' defense

    An Army judge ruled Wednesday against Omar Khadr's ''child soldier'' defense, dashing hopes of a dismissal of charges in the case of the Canadian who was captured in a firefight in Afghanistan at age 15. Photo Gallery Available

  • Bin Laden's driver can send notes to detainees

    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.

  • Alleged al Qaeda plotters consult Navy lawyers

    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. Audio Available

  • UP FRONT | WAR ON TERRORISM

    Crude comedy tackles America's post-9/11 policy

    Ready or not, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantánamo Bay is mainstream Hollywood's first comedy to lampoon the United States' war on terror.

Guantánamo

  • IN THE PRISON CAMPS

    Cooperative detainees granted once-a-year phone call home

    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.

  • 9/11 military trial will test attorneys from Idaho

    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.

  • Idaho attorneys to assist alleged al Qaeda kingpin

    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. Audio Available

  • Khadr floats friendly-fire theory

    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. Photo Gallery Available

  • Secrecy review delays report on terror interrogations

    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

    'KSM' gets Navy reservist as lawyer

    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.

  • ACLU to defend alleged terrorists

    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.

  • Gitmo tribunal rules limit evidence disclosures

    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.

  • Elder statesmen urge closure

    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.

  • Abu Zubaydah's lawyers say he was tortured, now insane

    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.

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