Khalid Sheik Mohammed gets June 5 terrorism court date
The chief judge of the Guantánamo Bay war court has set June 5 for the first court appearances of reputed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators.
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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.
The chief judge of the Guantánamo Bay war court has set June 5 for the first court appearances of reputed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators.
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.

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.
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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.
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.

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.
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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.
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.
The CIA has sent another alleged senior al Qaeda captive -- previously held and interrogated in secret by the agency -- to the high-value detainee prison camp at Guantánamo, the military disclosed on Friday.