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The judges ruled in favor of Huzaifa Parhat, 37, an ethnic Muslim Uighur, who is a Chinese citizen. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/576765.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/576765.html Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:55 EDT Defending his ''intense and direct'' management style, the general overseeing the war trials here testified Thursday that he pushed Pentagon lawyers to pick up the pace of war-crimes prosecutions -- not for political purposes but in the interest of kick-starting sluggish military commissions. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/568475.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/568475.html Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:41 EDT A sharply divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Guantánamo Bay detainees can challenge their extended imprisonment in federal court, and struck down as inadequate an alternative review system that Congress set up. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/568909.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/568909.html Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:04 EDT A Supreme Court ruling that grants terrorist suspects confined at Guantánamo Bay the right to challenge their detention in civilian courts bolsters the arguments of the only detainee on U.S. soil classified as an enemy combatant, his attorney said Thursday. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/568228.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/568228.html Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:46 EDT Trials by military commission at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, will go forward despite a U.S. Supreme Court decision granting war-on-terror detainees recourse to federal court, the Bush administration said late Thursday. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/560138.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/560138.html Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:45 EDT One by one, the U.S. military brought five accused 9/11 co-conspirators before a war court judge Thursday, and each one rejected his free-of-charge American lawyers. Two said they welcomed death. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/551287.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/551287.html Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:18 EDT Defense lawyers for the alleged 9/11 conspirators on Thursday accused the Pentagon prosecutor of rushing to begin the complex Sept. 11, 2001, terror trial in the height of the presidential campaign season. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/551484.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/551484.html Thu, 29 May 2008 21:44 EDT U.S. military prosecutors swore out war crimes charges against a trio of Guantánamo Bay detainees alleging the men were part of an al Qaeda bomb-making squad. One has an engineering degree from a U.S. university. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/545576.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/545576.html Sun, 25 May 2008 21:43 EDT Guards put on a mock war court conviction to test the $12 million expeditionary legal compound; censors put a three-tent limit on photos; a Sudanese detainee cracked wise. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/545139.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/545139.html Fri, 23 May 2008 21:41 EDT Military prosecutors filed war crimes charges Friday against a Sudanese man at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for allegedly running a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan in the late 1990s, where some of the 9/11 hijackers also allegedly trained. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/543515.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/543515.html Thu, 22 May 2008 23:21 EDT A military judge Thursday refused a defense request for delay and confirmed alleged al Qaeda kingpin Khalid Sheik Mohammed's June 5 court date at the military commissions, along with four other alleged 9/11 co-conspirators. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/543167.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/543167.html Thu, 22 May 2008 19:29 EDT GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- A detainee who had vowed a boycott turned up at his war court hearing Thursday and asked to call his family in his native Sudan to help him hire a lawyer, with his own money. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/541704.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/541704.html Wed, 21 May 2008 21:42 EDT An Afghan detainee accused of spying on U.S. forces tried to bite and spit on his guards Wednesday, and was forced into his war court arraignment in handcuffs and leg shackles. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/539369.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/539369.html Mon, 19 May 2008 22:29 EDT Lawyers for the five alleged 9/11 co-conspirators asked the court on Monday to postpone a June 5 arraignment -- seeking more time to build attorney-client relationships with the alleged architects of the Sept. 11 attacks. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/536585.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/536585.html Sat, 17 May 2008 22:30 EDT A military commissions judge Friday postponed the scheduled trial of Osama bin Laden's driver until after the U.S. Supreme Court has decided another key detainee case. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/532201.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/532201.html Tue, 13 May 2008 23:36 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/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 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/guantanamolaw/story/514880.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/514880.html Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:47 EDT Osama bin Laden's driver mournfully declared a boycott of his war-on-terrorism trial Tuesday, despite a plea from his military judge that he press on because he had already beaten President Bush once, at the U.S. Supreme Court. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/513264.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/513264.html Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:51 EDT A former chief prosecutor for the war crimes court testified on Monday that the Pentagon rushed war-on-terror trials -- a move that could require secret sessions and the use of tainted evidence gleaned from water boarding. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/512676.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/512676.html Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:45 EDT Osama bin Laden's driver appeared at his war crimes trial Monday looking disheveled and threatening a boycott. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/495992.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/495992.html Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:42 EDT Detainees denounce the war-crimes court as a ''sham'' and refuse military lawyers. Attorneys consult their bars, worried that their licenses might be revoked for defending clients who fired them. And the Pentagon presses on in its push for speedy trials. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/491195.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/491195.html Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:23 EDT In an emerging trend, a defiant Sudanese terror suspect on Thursday became the third war court defendant in a row to fire his lawyer and boycott his military trial. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/489066.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/489066.html Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:32 EDT A Saudi Arabian captive accused of plotting terror attacks at sea in the Middle East called the war court here a sham on Wednesday, fired his Pentagon lawyer and was sent back to his cell with a promise from his judge that his military trial would go on without him. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/488156.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/488156.html Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:55 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/guantanamolaw/story/486782.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/486782.html Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:37 EDT The chief defense counsel for the war crimes court at Guantánamo Bay on Monday appointed four U.S. military officers to defend four alleged co-conspirators facing possible death-penalty charges in the 9/11 attacks. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/486409.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/486409.html Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:37 EDT A Pentagon appointee approved war crimes charges against an alleged al Qaeda foot soldier on Monday, starting the clock toward trial of the Afghan detainee accused of fighting the U.S. invasion. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/484671.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/484671.html Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:39 EDT Lawyers for Osama bin Laden's former driver argue that U.S. and allied forces assaulted their client in Afghanistan and treated him harshly at Guantánamo, in court papers that seek to have his statements to interrogators excluded from his war crimes trial. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/480840.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/480840.html Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:55 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/guantanamolaw/story/479586.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/479586.html Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:25 EDT An American college professor whose Kenyan husband was killed in the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania says a Guantánamo detainee accused in the attack should be tried in a civilian federal court, not by a military commission. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/478074.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/478074.html Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:01 EDT A decade after he was indicted in New York, and four years after he was taken into U.S. custody, the Pentagon announced Monday that it will seek to try a Tanzanian man for war crimes in the 1998 East African bombings. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/474196.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/474196.html Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:54 EDT The lawyer for Osama bin Laden's driver argues in a military commissions motion that senior Pentagon officials are orchestrating war crimes prosecutions for the 2008 campaign. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/471255.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/471255.html Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:18 EDT The United States violates international law by holding a Canadian former child soldier at Guantánamo without access to courts, his lawyers told Canada's Supreme Court on Wednesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/462928.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/462928.html Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:51 EDT For a third time, a military judge has authorized lawyers for Osama bin Laden's driver to send questions to alleged al Qaeda kingpins in segregation at Guantánamo. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/461231.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/461231.html Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:58 EDT Canadian captive Omar Khadr alleges that he was repeatedly threatened with rape during interrogation in Afghanistan and at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/460242.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/460242.html Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:14 EDT Lawyers for four Kuwaiti men held at Guantánamo Bay have asked a court to block U.S. military prosecutors from contacting the detainees without their consent, accusing the government Monday of violating legal ethics. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/457035.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/457035.html Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:50 EDT In a rebuke to the government, an Army judge Friday issued five successive orders instructing the Pentagon to do more to help lawyers for Canadian captive Omar Khadr forge a defense. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/454633.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/454633.html Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:18 EDT In another war court case clouded by allegations of military abuse, a Saudi captive who swears he was brutalized by Army interrogators in Afghanistan was arraigned Thursday by a judge who presided over the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse prosecution. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/455131.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/455131.html Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:48 EDT U.S. guards carried a war-on-terror detainee out of his prison camp cell and led him into his arraignment in leg shackles Wednesday, a war court first. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/455868.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/455868.html Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:02 EDT Accusing the Pentagon of a cover-up, human rights lawyers Thursday filed suit seeking the full transcripts of military hearings for the alleged senior leadership of the al Qaeda terror network. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/453996.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/453996.html Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:32 EDT Plunging ahead with foot soldier prosecutions, the Pentagon swore out war crimes charges Wednesday against an Afghan man accused of fighting the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/445262.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/445262.html Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:06 EST A Pentagon official on Wednesday formally approved charges against a Sudanese captive at Guantánamo who allegedly worked as a driver and bodyguard for Osama bin Laden. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/440904.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/440904.html Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:50 EST Reacting to Pentagon plans to stage its first death-penalty trial, the American Bar Association has written President Bush, again, protesting the war court at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/421094.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/421094.html Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:04 EST When did the war on terror begin? Is the globe really one big battlefield? At the military commissions, the definition of the ongoing war with al Qaeda -- when it started, who is immune from prosecution -- is emerging as a core issue for military judges and eventually U.S. officers who will sit in judgment. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/423850.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/423850.html Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:38 EST Pentagon prosecutors are challenging a military court's decision to let Osama bin Laden's driver send written questions to alleged senior al Qaeda members held incommunicado at Guantánamo. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/419827.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/419827.html Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:44 EST Overruling government objections, a military judge has agreed to let lawyers for Osama bin Laden's driver send written questions to Khalid Sheik Mohammed and six other alleged senior al Qaeda captives in seclusion at Guantánamo, according to a decision made public Thursday. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/414661.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/414661.html Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:27 EST The Pentagon Monday issued charge sheets against six Guantánamo captives in the Pentagon and World Trade Center attacks, accusing them of conspiring in the killings of nearly 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2001 -- and is seeking to execute them, if convicted. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/412326.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/412326.html Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:17 EST The military late Friday announced it would press war crimes charges against two more captives -- one allegedly Osama bin Laden's press security, the other his reputed bodyguard and driver. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/410780.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/410780.html Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:12 EST In a partial victory for Osama bin Laden's driver, a Navy judge Thursday said defense lawyers should be able to at least send in questions to alleged senior al Qaeda leaders in secret detention at this base. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/405304.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/405304.html Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:39 EST On the eve of the resumption of its war crimes trials, the military on Sunday unveiled a new state-of-the-art court capable of trying six alleged terrorists simultaneously -- and silencing them from the outside world, if they try to spill state secrets. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/404334.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/404334.html Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:55 EST Osama bin Laden's driver is so traumatized from long-standing solitary confinement that he may be unable to assist in his war court defense, his lawyers argue in a brief. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/400525.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/400525.html Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:26 EST The Pentagon moved forward Wednesday with plans to try by military commission another Guantánamo detainee who was captured as a teenager in Afghanistan while fighting the U.S. invasion. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/398926.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/398926.html Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:29 EST The U.S. Supreme Court turned down a lawyer's request Tuesday for immediate access to the medical files of a Guantánamo prisoner who says he has AIDS. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/377215.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/377215.html Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:52 EST President Bush told activists Saturday that two of the last four Kuwaitis held at Guantánamo Bay will be charged, but did not provide specifics. The fate of the four Kuwaiti men still held at Guantánamo was also on the agenda of a meeting Friday between Bush and the Kuwaiti emir, Sheik Sabah al Ahmed al Sabah. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/353731.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/353731.html Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:20 EST The Defense Department confirmed late Friday that the latest man facing charges at the Guantánamo war court was related, by marriage, to a member of the hijack squad that slammed American Airlines 77 into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/351913.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/351913.html Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:37 EST A military judge set a trial date for Osama bin Laden's former driver. Later, the Pentagon swore out charges against the brother-in-law of a 9/11 hijacker. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/349042.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/349042.html Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:57 EST In an interim ruling made public Tuesday, a military judge said Osama bin Laden's Yemeni driver, captured in Afghanistan, is entitled to consideration that he may be a prisoner of war -- a status that would collapse his war crimes trial at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for a third time. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/345344.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/345344.html Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:00 EST Lawyers are asking a court to examine the way he was questioned while in three years of secret CIA custody -- and decide whether he was tortured. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/341923.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/341923.html Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:52 EST The military commissions for detainees at the U.S. detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, fall short of international standards, a U.N. human rights expert who visited the camp said Wednesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/341088.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/341088.html Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:32 EST A trio of federal court judges Tuesday ordered the Bush administration to preserve any evidence of possible torture in the case of Baltimore-raised Guantánamo detainee Majid Khan, who claims he was tortured while in secret CIA custody for years. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/340611.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/340611.html Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:06 EST A U.S. military legal advisor wouldn't rule out the possibility that statements by suspected terrorists subjected to waterboarding, or simulated drowning, could be used at the coming trials by military commissions at Guantánamo Bay. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/337591.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/337591.html Sat, 08 Dec 2007 22:00 EST Lawyers for a Guantánamo detainee from Baltimore are asking a federal court to order the Bush administration to preserve evidence of how their client was treated in three-plus years of CIA custody, say he was tortured. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/335509.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/335509.html Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:44 EST Military prosecutors Thursday showed a Navy judge a video clip of Osama bin Laden and his driver at a Muslim feast -- and introduced the driver's prison camp confessions that he spirited the al Qaeda founder to safety ahead of terrorist operations. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/332865.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/332865.html Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:45 EST U.S. Supreme Court justices sounded skeptical Wednesday about the Bush administration's treatment of foreign-born prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay, raising questions about the future of White House war-on-terrorism tactics. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/332425.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/332425.html Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:17 EST In an unusual alignment of court dockets, presidential-power watchers will be monitoring far-flung courtroom dramas -- reflecting the ongoing struggle to forge a coherent policy on how to detain and sometimes prosecute suspected enemies in the war on terrorism. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/316138.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/316138.html Sat, 01 Dec 2007 06:22 EST Five news organizations, including The Miami Herald's parent company, complained in a motion filed on Wednesday that they are being denied access to much of the military commission proceeding against Canadian war-on-terror captive Omar Khadr. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/306222.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/306222.html Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:14 EST On a Pentagon detainee's birthday behind the razor wire, the U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear the case of the man who fears torture on his return to Algeria. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/300352.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/300352.html Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:49 EST Canadian captive Omar Khadr's war crimes trial sputtered to a new start Thursday -- with no plea, no evidence and the explosive disclosure that the defense had learned of a top secret U.S. eyewitness who could help their client's case. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/306968.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/306968.html Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:32 EST Seventy percent of the 320 or so captives currently keep Korans -- 30 percent, or nearly 100, of the men do not. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/279799.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/279799.html Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:31 EDT The FBI has assigned up to 300 agents to a special team to help build war crimes cases against Guantánamo Bay detainees once held by the CIA. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/278106.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/278106.html Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:33 EDT Even as the Pentagon moves to resume its war-on-terrorism trials, called military commissions, the detention center's commander said he has received no instructions and made no plans to to carry out the ultimate penalty they may impose -- death. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/275405.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/275405.html Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:21 EDT For the first time since the disclosure of black-site interrogations by the CIA, some civilian lawyers have been allowed to meet with a ''high-value detainee.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/272905.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/272905.html Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:35 EDT The Pentagon on Monday named a veteran Army colonel with a military intelligence as well as defense lawyer's background to serve as chief prosecutor for war crimes trials at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/268847.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/268847.html Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:21 EDT Pentagon prosecutors issued new charges Thursday against a Guantánamo captive, accusing him of the war crime of attempted murder in a 2002 grenade attack in Afghanistan. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/267567.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/267567.html Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:56 EDT The Bush administration insisted that Guantánamo Bay captives don't have a constitutional right to have judges hear their cases, and defended its treatment of the war-on-terrorism captives in a brief filed at the Supreme Court. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/262350.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/262350.html Sat, 06 Oct 2007 03:01 EDT The Pentagon said Friday that the chief war crimes prosecutor for the occasional military commissions at Guantánamo Bay had abruptly resigned in a dispute over his independence. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/261487.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/261487.html Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:47 EDT In a surprise development for the on-again, off-again military commissions at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the Pentagon's chief war crimes prosecutor has abruptly resigned in a dispute over his independence. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/261717.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/261717.html Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:22 EDT The Senate on Wednesday rejected legislation that would have allowed terrorist suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to petition federal courts claiming that they're being held in error. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/237932.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/237932.html Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:34 EDT With the U.S. Supreme Court set to take up Guantánamo detention policy again, the justices have received some unusual advice from a far-flung, friendly corner of the war-torn Middle East. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/264882.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/264882.html Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:23 EDT With plans scrapped for a massive war-crimes legal compound that might have cost $125 million, the Pentagon is now building a more modest tent city. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/261840.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/261840.html Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:12 EDT First military insider urges Congress to scrap the military-run reviews conducted at the U.S. Navy base detention center in southeast Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/266245.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/266245.html Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:54 EDT Guantánamo military judges dismissed war crimes charges against two detainees, citing the Pentagon's failure to comply with an act of Congress. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/277103.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/277103.html Sat, 19 May 2007 19:41 EDT A Navy officer facing up to 13 years was sentenced to six months and will be dishonorably discharged for giving names of Guantánamo captives to a rights group in 2005. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/319703.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/319703.html Thu, 10 May 2007 22:34 EDT The Pentagon renewed a terrorism case against Osama bin Laden's driver, resurrecting the conspiracy charge that he challenged all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/266249.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/266249.html Fri, 04 May 2007 23:57 EDT Guantánamo's prison camps chief backed away from a proposed three-meeting limit between attorneys and detainees, saying the restrictions are no longer needed. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/264578.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/264578.html Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:19 EDT The Pentagon is undergoing some senior supervisory management changes in its units that run the war court. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/264581.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/264581.html Sun, 01 Apr 2007 23:08 EDT Just as Guantánamo visitors never saw the entire story, the full picture of the first U.S. war-crimes tribunal since World War II emerged slowly. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/264817.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/264817.html Sat, 31 Mar 2007 23:22 EDT In a surprise deal, an al Qaeda foot soldier from Australia trades silence on any possible Guantánamo abuse for a nine-month prison sentence in his homeland. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/266265.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/266265.html Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:34 EST A Pentagon official quit to end a brouhaha over the service of pro-bono detainee defense attorneys. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/338168.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/338168.html Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:49 EST Pressing forward with plans to try some Guantánamo captives, the Pentagon sent to Congress a manual for a war-crimes court that would permit hearsay evidence, coerced testimony and the execution of terrorists by order of the president. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/320397.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/320397.html Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:17 EST A ruckus is brewing in legal circles over a Pentagon lawyer's targeting of law firms for providing free work to alleged terrorists. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/279935.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/279935.html Sun, 08 Oct 2006 22:59 EDT The Navy lawyer who took the Guantánamo case of Osama bin Laden's driver to the U.S. Supreme Court - and won - has been passed over for promotion by the Pentagon and must soon leave the military. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/264029.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/264029.html Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:15 EDT In a major reversal of a keystone policy, the Bush administration declares all detainees in U.S. military custody are entitled to Geneva Convention protections that prohibit humiliating treatment and torture. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/319698.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/319698.html Sat, 01 Jul 2006 22:24 EDT Osama bin Laden's driver praised Allah upon learning that the Supreme Court had sided with him against President Bush over military trials at U.S. prisons at Guantánamo. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/279933.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/279933.html Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:41 EDT The Supreme Court dealt the Bush administration a devastating legal loss in the war on terrorism, ruling that the president overstepped his constitutional authority by creating ad hoc military tribunals for prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/310465.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/310465.html Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:59 EDT A prosecutor apologized to a Supreme Court justice, military judges differed on culturally appropriate attire and artists' sketches had a few surprises. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/338689.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/338689.html Fri, 07 Apr 2006 23:45 EDT ''I'm innocent and I'm not supposed to be here,'' said 27-year-old Binyam Ahmed Muhammad, who challenged virtually every portion of the Military Commissions proceedings. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/310464.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/310464.html Fri, 07 Apr 2006 13:56 EDT A defense lawyer pleaded the Fifth Amendment and a captive who claims he was tortured dominated the most chaotic war-court session yet at Guantánamo. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/319714.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/319714.html Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:00 EST The Supreme Court heard the case of Osama bin Laden's former driver who is challenging President Bush's right to try him before a military commission. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/319706.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/319706.html Sun, 26 Mar 2006 22:36 EST Osama bin Laden's driver is about to challenge President Bush's Military Commissions at the Supreme Court. At issue: Is the anti-terrorism court at odds with the U.S. Constitution? http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/310461.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/310461.html Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:52 EST The Pentagon will prohibit military commissions trying Guantánamo captives from including evidence gained through torture. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/321076.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/321076.html Thu, 02 Mar 2006 12:11 EST A captive facing conspiracy charges before a Military Commission raised the possibility during pre-trial hearings when, during questioning of a judge's competence to serve, the captive asked to be moved to a cell alongside the man known by his acronym ``KSM.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/319731.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/319731.html Fri, 08 Apr 2005 23:07 EDT Bush administration tells a federal appeals court commissions should be allowed to run their course before letting defendants appeal to U.S. courts. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/285510.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/285510.html Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:35 EST Detainee tells Navy lawyer: "I don't want to make history. I just want to go home." http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/285507.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/285507.html Tue, 09 Nov 2004 19:36 EST The decision by U.S. District Judge James Robertson, sitting 1,300 miles away in Washington, D.C., brought pretrial motions here to a skidding halt in the case of Yemeni captive Salim Hamdan, 34. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/285484.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/285484.html Sat, 18 Sep 2004 19:35 EDT A lawyer for a suspected Sudanese terrorist wants to question former presidents Bush and Clinton and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/285503.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/285503.html Wed, 25 Aug 2004 19:37 EDT Opening the United States' first war crimes trial since World War II, the government charged a wiry Yemeni who worked as Osama bin Laden's chauffeur with conspiracy as a member of the al Qaeda network. http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/285486.html http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/285486.html Wed, 11 Feb 2004 19:45 EST Navy lawyer got special clearance to speak to a Herald reporter about his client -- Osama bin Laden's ex-driver.