http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Guantánamo 60 Thu, 15 May 2008 18:48:29 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/533689.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/533689.html Wed, 14 May 2008 23:23 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/533688.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/533688.html Wed, 14 May 2008 23:32 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/533076.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/533076.html Wed, 14 May 2008 18:16 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/532201.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/532201.html Tue, 13 May 2008 23:41 EDT Legal defense groups Tuesday accused the Pentagon of foot-dragging on security clearances that would let civilian lawyers help their military counterparts defend the alleged plotters of the Sept. 11 attacks at Guantánamo. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/530744.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/530744.html Tue, 13 May 2008 23:02 EDT A Pentagon official has formally approved death penalty charges against reputed 9/11 architect Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other men for the Sept. 11 attacks; charges have been dropped again a sixth man, a Saudi, once suspected as the 20th Hijacker. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/529601.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/529601.html Mon, 12 May 2008 07:31 EDT With their actual trials a year or more away, the focus in Guantánamo Bay these days is preparing for this summer's first public appearances of the alleged architects of the worst attack on domestic America. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/528419.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/528419.html Sat, 10 May 2008 11:54 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/526511.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/526511.html Fri, 09 May 2008 01:14 EDT A military judge threatened Thursday to suspend the terror trial of Canadian Omar Khadr unless the prison camp releases a detailed log of the Toronto-born captive's treatment in detention. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/526503.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/526503.html Fri, 09 May 2008 00:01 EDT A cell at Camp 5 in Guantánamo Bay is about 10 feet long and seven feet wide -- a little bigger than a cell on Florida's Death Row. The bed is a thin plastic mat, the lights sterile flourescents. The toilet is thin steel. The ankle chains are heavier. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/525297.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/525297.html Thu, 08 May 2008 03:01 EDT The Pentagon tested its new $12 million war court complex Wednesday with the arraignment of an alleged al Qaeda propagandist -- and the state-of-the-art facility was plagued by technical tribulations. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/524675.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/524675.html Wed, 07 May 2008 14:29 EDT The U.S. military confirmed on Wednesday that a former Guantánamo detainee from Kuwait carried out a recent suicide attack in northern Iraq. The U.S. transferred himto Kuwaiti custody from Guantánamo in 2005. The military said he took part in one of three suicide bomb attacks last month that targeted Iraqi security forces in the northern city of Mosul. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/518921.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/518921.html Fri, 02 May 2008 23:21 EDT Forty-one House members are calling on the Defense Department inspector general to investigate a public relations effort that relied on retired military officers to defend the administration's Iraq war policies. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/528419.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/528419.html Sat, 10 May 2008 23:44 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/523186.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/523186.html Tue, 06 May 2008 21:49 EDT Attorneys for a detainee held here as an alleged al Qaeda co-conspirator filed suit against the British government on Tuesday, claiming it would violate its own foreign policy by permitting a former resident to face war crimes trial here with evidence allegedly obtained by torture. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/522884.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/522884.html Tue, 06 May 2008 10:43 EDT An appeals court panel heard arguments Monday on whether to release the identities of some detainees at the Guantánamo Bay prison camp who suffered mistreatment by their handlers or other prisoners. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamoglobe/story/532349.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamoglobe/story/532349.html Wed, 14 May 2008 23:20 EDT The former U.N. commander in Rwanda on Tuesday equated the United States and Canada with al Qaeda for their handling of a young Canadian detained at Guantánamo Bay. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamoglobe/story/527053.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamoglobe/story/527053.html Fri, 09 May 2008 09:44 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamoglobe/story/522380.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamoglobe/story/522380.html Mon, 05 May 2008 22:26 EDT An Al Jazeera cameraman freed from the U.S.-run Guantánamo Bay detention center described it Monday as the worst prison mankind has ever seen. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamoreports/story/529601.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamoreports/story/529601.html Sun, 11 May 2008 23:21 EDT With their actual trials a year or more away, the focus in Guantánamo Bay these days is preparing for this summer's first public appearances of the alleged architects of the worst attack on domestic America. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamoreports/story/409334.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamoreports/story/409334.html Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:30 EST Somewhere on this isolated outpost, strictly off-limits from the Pentagon's media tour, is a secret prison camp housing 15 alleged senior al Qaeda captives called ''high-value detainees.'' It is Camp 7, and run by a special unit code-named Task Force Platinum. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamoreports/story/382603.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamoreports/story/382603.html Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:21 EST Icon unmasked: Study finds that, six years after the Pentagon opened the prison camps with 20 detainees, at least seven captives photographed on their knees have been sent to their homelands. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/518333.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/518333.html Fri, 02 May 2008 08:48 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/517002.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/517002.html Thu, 01 May 2008 11:20 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/515398.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/515398.html Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:32 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/512412.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/512412.html Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:37 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/508890.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/508890.html Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT Ready or not, <em>Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantánamo Bay </em>is mainstream Hollywood's first comedy to lampoon the United States' war on terror. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/505320.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/505320.html Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:47 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/505205.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/505205.html Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:13 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/495570.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/495570.html Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:53 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/492534.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/492534.html Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:39 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/491121.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/491121.html Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:28 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/488156.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/488156.html Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:10 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/484043.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/484043.html Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:11 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/480840.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/480840.html Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/472744.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/472744.html Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:35 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/464178.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/464178.html Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:37 EDT 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.