War court

Pentagon charges former U.S. resident at Guantánamo in terror plot

The Pentagon’s war crimes prosecutor proposes to put a graduate of a suburban Baltimore high school now detained at Guantánamo on trial for attempting to kill Pakistan’s president and conspiring to blow up gas stations.

WAR COURT

Guantánamo judge won’t subpoena Yemeni leader

The chief military commissions judge refused a defense request to order Yemen’s embattled leader, now in New York for medical treatment, to undergo war court questioning in the USS Cole bombing case.

WAR COURT

State Department: Guantánamo lawyers can’t question Yemeni leader

Pentagon lawyers for a Guantánamo 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.

GUANTANAMO

Alleged bomber's lawyer wants to question Yemeni leader

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 ‘Arab Spring’ explosion at his presidential compound in Sana’a.

Judge dismisses ex-captive's damage suit

A federal judge has dismissed a damages claim by former Guantánamo captive Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak Al Janko, a Syrian who sought recompense for alleged abusive treatment.

CAMP JUSTICE

No 9/11 trial this year at Guantánamo war court

An email to lawyers makes clear that the alleged Sept. 11 plotters won’t be back at a military commission until next year.

Pentagon announces trial of alleged Cole mastermind on new Guantánamo website

Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, 46, a former Saudi millionaire, faces the death penalty in al Qaida’s suicide bombing of a U.S. Navy warship in a Yemen port a decade ago. The announcement came on a new website that news organizations had requested.

GUANTANAMO

New camps chief prepares base for 9/11 tribunal

Running the detention and court compounds where the accused 9/11 conspirators are confined and face trial is ‘just another mission’ for camp commander.

GUANTANAMO

Bitter analogy in war crime case: Indians, al Qaeda

Seminoles in 1818 similar to al Qaeda in 2001? Some Pentagon prosecutors appeared to make this analogy to support a Guantánamo war crimes conviction, then clarified in a war court filing.

Obama to resume military tribunals for terror suspects

The Obama administration on Monday announced that it will resume using military tribunals to try suspected terrorists held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, but officials said they'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.

U.S. still holds detainee Pentagon wanted freed in 2004

According to a judge's order made public this week, the Pentagon first recommended that Adnan Abdul Latif be sent home from Guantanamo in 2004. The Bush administration agreed in 2007. Yet the Obama administration is still trying to decide if it should appeal the judge's ruling that Latif's detention is illegal and he should be sent home.

U.S. court orders ex-Russian dancer freed from Guantánamo

A federal court on Thursday ordered the Pentagon to set free from Guantánamo a former Russian Army ballet dancer turned devout Muslim whose plight captured the imagination of a Massachusetts college town.

Changes to key Guantánamo evidence innocent, officer says

An Army Special Forces officer testified Saturday that he altered a field report to directly implicate a Canadian detainee now being held at Guantánamo in a fatal grenade attack in Afghanistan years later because he realized that he got it wrong and wanted to fix the historical record.

War court closed, shows 'secret' YouTube video

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.

Judge orders release of detainee abused at Guantánamo

A federal judge on Monday ordered the Pentagon to release a long-held Mauritanian captive held at Guantánamo Bay who was once considered such a high-value detainee that former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld designated him for "special interrogation techniques."

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.

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.

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.

GUANTANAMO BAY

Captives brag of 9/11 roles

The last war-crimes session of the Bush administration was marked by antics from 9/11 defendants and pleas by relatives of 9/11 victims for swifter justice.