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In this sketch, approved for release by the U.S. miitary, the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks co-conspirator suspects, at left, attend their arraignment inside the war crimes courthouse at Camp Justice, the legal complex of the US Military Commissions, at Guantánamo Bay US Naval Base, in Cuba, on June 5, 2008. They are, top to bottom, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Waleed bin Attash, Ramzi Bin al Shibh, Ali Abd al Aziz Ali, known as Ammar al Baluchi, and Mustafa Ahmad al Hawsawi.
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WH considering military trials for 9/11 suspects

In a potential reversal, White House advisers are close to recommending that President Barack Obama opt for military tribunals for self-professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four of his alleged henchman, senior officials said.

  • A Uighur captive from China, ordered released last year by a federal judge, walks away from the entrance to Camp Iguana in this Oct. 14, 2009 photo cleared for release by a Pentagon contractor at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Obama administration says all the Uighurs at Guantanamo, this man included, have been invited to resettle in Switzerland or the Pacific island nation of Palau and so the U.S. Supreme Court shouldn't hear their appeal to be released into the United States.

    Supreme Court dismisses Uighurs' Guantánamo case

    The Supreme Court on Monday dropped a case filed by Uighur detainees held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in which the Uighurs sought to be brought to the U.S. because no other country would accept them.

  • At left, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. At right, Manuel Noriega in 1989 in Panama City where he was subsequently captured by US troops and brought to Miami for trial.

    Justice: Noriega case had Guantánamo application

    The Supreme Court on Monday decided not to stop the U.S. government from sending former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega to France to face money laundering charges.

  • The Military Commissions building at the U.S. Navy Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

    U.S. OKs one, dismisses another war crime case

    In two little noted decisions, the Obama administration has decided to go ahead with the Guantánamo prosecution of an Afghan detainee who allegedly hid mines in his homeland and late last year quietly sent home another captive who was once taken to the war court for allegedly spying on U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. Photo Gallery Available

  • At left, a photo of Guantanamo detainee Fouad Rabia, 50, of Kuwait, taken before his 2001 capture in Afghanistan and at right U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly who ordered his release Sept. 17, 2009 after reviewing his habeas corpus petition claiming the Department of Defense has detained him unlawfully.

    Pentagon drops Kuwaiti's war crimes case

    A day after the emir of Kuwait sent his royal jet to fetch a citizen from Guantánamo, the Pentagon has dropped war crimes charges against the Kuwaiti Airways executive who has long claimed he was a victim of mistaken identity.

  • The Military Commissions building at the U.S. Navy Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

    Guantánamo war court gavels into 1-day session

    With a prison camps closure date now uncertain, the Pentagon gaveled into business a military commissions session Wednesday with an Afghan foot soldier case.

  • GUANTANAMO BAY

    Supreme Court agrees to consider Guantánamo Uighurs case

    The decision on whether or not Chinese Uighurs imprisoned at the Guantánamo prison camps can be released into the U.S. is now up to the Supreme Court.

  • Judge sides with U.S. on detainee documents

    A federal judge ruled Friday in a case on detainees at Guantánamo Bay that the U.S. government can maintain the secrecy of portions of some records that allegedly describe torture and abuse. Audio Available

  • In this photo reviewed by the U.S. Military, leg shackles sit on the floor in Camp 6 detention center on the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009.

    Judge OKs Guantánamo detention of Algerian

    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 Guantánamo habeas corpus lawsuits to eight.

  • Alleged al Qaeda kingpin Khalid Sheik Mohammed posed for this photo in July, at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It was taken by the International Committee of the Red Cross to be sent home for Ramadan, and first showed up on Arabic language websites seen as sympathetic to al Qaeda last week, according to counter-terror expert Jarret Brachman. It is the first known public picture since his widely circulated March 2003 capture photo of him rousted from sleep in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

    GUANTANAMO BAY PRISON CAMPS

    9/11 mastermind: 'Allah,' not lawyers, will protect me

    Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who has bragged about his role in the Sept. 11 attacks, has asked to dismiss his ACLU lawyers and face his death-penalty case alone

  • At left, a photo of Guantanamo detainee Fouad Rabia, 50, of Kuwait, taken before his 2001 capture in Afghanistan and at right U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly who ordered his release Sept. 17, 2009 after reviewing his habeas corpus petition claiming the Department of Defense has detained him unlawfully.

    Judge: Free Kuwaiti engineer at Guantánamo

    A federal judge late Thursday ordered the Obama administration to set free a 50-year-old Kuwaiti aeronautics engineer who had been held as a war crimes suspect at Guantánamo since 2002.

  • Assistant Attorney General David Kris, left, of the Justice Department's National Security Division testifies with Defense Department General Counsel Jeh Johnson before the Senate Armed Services Committee July 7, 2009 in Washington, DC. The full committee met to hear testimony on legal issues regarding military commissions and the trial of detainees for violations of the law of war.

    While defending war court, White House seeks delay

    The Obama administration Wednesday broadly defended as constitutional its predecessor's format for military commissions at Guantánamo but said it would seek to delay next week's sanity hearings in a Sept. 11 case while it revamps its war on terror prosecution strategy. Photo Gallery Available

  • A demonstrator dressed as a detainee stages a protest outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Dec. 5, 2007, as the court was hearing arguments about the rights of prisoners being detained at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. AP

    WAR ON TERRORISM

    Guantánamo captives winning lawsuits

    Judges weighing who must stay at and who can go from Guantánamo have so far ruled for the release of 29 detainees and told the Pentagon it can retain seven others. Photo Gallery Available

  • Accused al Qaeda propagandist Ali Hamza al Bahlul waves a boycott sign at his May 7, 2008 arraignment on war crimes charges at Camp Justice, the military commissions complex, at the U.S. Navy base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, as shown in a courtroom sketch submitted to U.S. military scrutiny before release. At his right is a Pentagon paid translator.

    Bin Laden aide's Guantánamo conviction appealed

    Pentagon defense lawyers this week appealed the war crimes conviction of Osama bin Laden's media secretary at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on free speech grounds. Photo Gallery Available

  • Fawzi al Odah, now 32, has been held at the prison camps at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, since early 2002. On Aug. 24, 2009, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly upheld the Pentagon's authority to hold him as a war captive. Al Odah's was one of the first habeas corpus unlawful detention petitions filed at the federal court in Washington D.C.

    Judge rules Kuwaiti at Guantánamo was foot soldier

    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's right to lock him up as an enemy combatant at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Photo Gallery Available

  • Alleged 9/11 co-conspirator Ramzi bin al Shibh, now approved to face a death-penalty charges trial at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is shown in this video image from January 2002.

    Judge: CIA interrogations not relevant to 9/11 accused's sanity

    U.S. military defense lawyers for accused 9/11 conspirator Ramzi bin al Shibh cannot learn what interrogation techniques CIA agents used on the Yemeni before he was moved to Guantánamo to be tried as a terrorist, an Army judge has ruled. Photo Gallery Available

  • Former British resident Binyam Mohamed, in sweater and skullcap, steps from a plane at Northolt military base in west London Monday Feb. 23, 2009 -- the first Guantánamo prisoner released since President Barack Obama took office.

    UK judges: Intelligence officer visited Morocco

    A British intelligence officer repeatedly visited Morocco at the same time that a former U.K. resident was allegedly being tortured there, two senior judges said Friday.

  • Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle was appointed to the United States District Court in October 1999. She received a B.A. from Wellesley College in 1970, a Masters in City Planning from Yale University in 1972, and a J.D. from Boston College Law School in 1975. Following law school, she served as law clerk to Chief Justice Edward F. Hennessey of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. From 1976 until 1984, Judge Huvelle was an associate at the firm of Williams & Connolly and in 1984, she became a partner at that firm. She was appointed Associate Judge of the D.C. Superior Court in September 1990 and served in the Civil, Criminal and Family Divisions until her appointment to the federal bench.

    Judge orders young Guantánamo detainee's release

    A judge ruled Thursday that one of the youngest detainees brought to Guantánamo Bay is being held illegally and must be released.

    U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle's order does not end the case of Mohammed Jawad, however. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Ian Gershengorn told the judge that as the United States negotiates with the detainee's home country of Afghanistan for his return next month, the Justice Department also is pursuing a criminal investigation. Photo Gallery Available

  • In this June 5, 2008 file photo, approved for release by a U.S. military review, a U.S. trooper walks at Camp Justice, the legal complex of the Military Commissions, at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

    Guantánamo war court faces technological, legal challenges

    The Pentagon plunged forward Wednesday with pretrial hearings against eight detainees in its beleaguered war court system with challenges to both the ongoing terror prosecutions and their remote state-of-the-art technology.

  • This undated file picture released 10 October 2001 by the FBI shows Tanzanian Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani. The Pentagon announced on March 31, 2008 it had charged him with murder, attacking civilians and material support for terrorism among other charges related to the bombing of the US Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, which killed 11 people.

    Ex-Guantánamo detainee seeks 'black sites' access

    Lawyers for a Guantánamo detainee charged with terrorism crimes have asked the U.S. government to preserve overseas locations where he was subjected to ''physical and psychological ill-treatment'' at secret CIA prisons known as ''black sites'' until they can inspect them.

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