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    <title><![CDATA[State Department: Guant&#xE1;namo lawyers can&#x2019;t question Yemeni leader]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:55 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Pentagon lawyers for a Guant&#xE1;namo captive want to get sworn testimony from the Yemeni leader, now in New York for medical treatment, but the State Department responds that he has diplomatic immunity.
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    <title><![CDATA[Alleged bomber's lawyer wants to question Yemeni leader]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The motion to depose Ali Abdullah Saleh was under seal at the Pentagon Tuesday; the Yemeni president is in the United States recovering from burns suffered in an &#x91;Arab Spring&#x92; explosion at his presidential compound in Sana&#x92;a.
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    <title><![CDATA[Scooter Libby case invoked at Guant&#xE1;namo terror trial]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:57 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Prosecutors working out procedures for handling secret evidence in the trial of an alleged Al Qaida chieftain invoked a surprising precedent Wednesday &#x2014; the 2007 felony trial of Lewis &#x201C;Scooter&#x201D; Libby, former Vice President Dick Cheney&#x2019;s aide.
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    <title><![CDATA[Proposed war court rule change stirs protest]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 05:17 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The new admiral in charge of the Guant&#xE1;namo Bay prison is seeking to impose significant changes to communications between lawyers and prisoners facing war-crimes charges at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba, The Associated Press has learned.
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    <title><![CDATA[Judge dismisses ex-captive's damage suit]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 10:18 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A federal judge has dismissed a damages claim by former Guant&#xE1;namo captive Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak Al Janko, a Syrian who sought recompense for alleged abusive treatment.
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    <title><![CDATA[War court&#x92;s website falls short in transparency vow]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:20 EDT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The website was launched last month to rehabilitate the reputation of the Guant&#xE1;namo war court. So far, it&#39;s a hodgepodge of secrecy.
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    <title><![CDATA[No 9/11 trial this year at Guant&#xE1;namo war court]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 05:00 EDT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A briefing schedule makes clear that the alleged Sept. 11 plotters won&#x92;t be back at the Camp Justice war court at Guant&#xE1;namo until next year.
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    <title><![CDATA[Pentagon to beam war crimes trials to US soil]]></title>
    <link>http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/09/25/2424442/report-pentagon-to-beam-war-crimes.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:49 EDT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The next war crimes trial prosecutor is pledging Guant&#xE1;namo-to-US transmissions from the military commissions compound in remote Cuba
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    <title><![CDATA[Judge in US dismisses families&#x2019; USS Cole lawsuit]]></title>
    <link>http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/09/23/2421410/judge-in-us-dismisses-families.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:36 EDT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A federal judge in the state of Virginia has dismissed a lawsuit that sought an additional $282.5 million from Sudan for the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole.
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    <title><![CDATA[Panel upholds Al Qaida filmmaker&#x92;s life sentence]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 01:09 EDT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A military panel upholds a life sentence for Osama bin Laden&#x92;s propagandist, now at Guant&#xE1;namo, in a ruling released on eve of 9/11 anniversary
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    <title><![CDATA[Bitter analogy in war crime case: Indians, al Qaeda]]></title>
    <link>http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/03/23/2130766/war-court-filing-comparing-seminoles.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:20 EDT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Seminoles in 1818 similar to al Qaeda in 2001? Some Pentagon prosecutors appeared to make this analogy to support a Guant&#xE1;namo war crimes conviction, then clarified in a war court filing.
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    <title><![CDATA[Obama to resume military tribunals for terror suspects]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The Obama administration on Monday announced that it will resume using military tribunals to try suspected terrorists held at Guant&#xE1;namo Bay, Cuba, but officials said they&#39;re not giving up on trials in civilian courts and are still considering their options for trying 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other accused 9/11 plotters.
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    <title><![CDATA[Changes to key Guantánamo evidence innocent, officer says]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 11:32 EDT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[An Army Special Forces officer testified Saturday that he altered a field report to directly implicate a Canadian detainee now being held at Guant&aacute;namo in a fatal grenade attack in Afghanistan years later because he realized that he got it wrong and wanted to fix the historical record.
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    <title><![CDATA[War court closed, shows 'secret' YouTube video]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 10:54 EDT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The video was of the interrogation of Canadian Omar Khadr and remains classified, even though the Canadian Supreme Court released it two years ago and it can be seen on YouTube.
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    <title><![CDATA[Judge orders release of detainee abused at Guantánamo]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[A federal judge on Monday ordered the Pentagon to release a long-held Mauritanian captive held at Guant&aacute;namo Bay who was once considered such a high-value detainee that former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld designated him for &amp;quot;special interrogation techniques.&amp;quot;
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    <title><![CDATA[Judge OKs Guant&#xE1;namo detention of Algerian]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:52 EDT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A federal judge has upheld as lawful the indefinite detention of an Algerian accused of being an al Qaeda bomb maker, raising the tally of U.S. government victories in Guant&#xE1;namo habeas corpus lawsuits to eight.
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    <title><![CDATA[Guant&#xE1;namo captives winning lawsuits]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[In one federal courtroom last month, a defense lawyer argued that the U.S. military had coerced a false confession out of a 50-year-old Kuwaiti who has been at Guant&amp;aacute;namo for seven years.
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    <title><![CDATA[Judge rules Kuwaiti at Guant&aacute;namo was foot soldier]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:28 EDT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A federal judge has upheld the military detention of a Kuwaiti man whose lawyers were among the earliest and most persistent challengers of President George W. Bush&#39;s right to lock him up as an enemy combatant at Guant&amp;aacute;namo Bay, Cuba.

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    <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:53 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Two former CIA-held captives boasted of their role in the 9/11 attacks Monday, as the Pentagon&#39;s war-crimes court convened for perhaps its final session on the eve of President-elect Barack Obama&#39;s inauguration.
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    <title><![CDATA[U.S. judge orders release of young Gitmo detainee]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:48 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A federal judge has ordered the military to release a Guant&aacute;namo Bay detainee who was arrested in Pakistan when he was 14.
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