Khalid Sheik Mohammed poses for the International Committee of the Red Cross at Guantanamo.

9/11 trial a death penalty test for NYC juries

New York juries are often loath to impose the death penalty, even for terrorists.

Alleged al Qaeda kingpin Khalid Sheik Mohammed, posing for the Red Cross at Guantanamo.

Obama, Holder predict conviction in 9/11 case

From opposite ends of the globe, President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder firmly rejected criticism Wednesday of the planned New York trial of the professed Sept. 11 mastermind and predicted Khalid Sheik Mohammed would be exposed as a murderous coward, convicted and executed. Video Available Photo Gallery Available Audio Available

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.

Military can reassign Guantánamo detainee's lawyers

The rights of a Guantánamo detainee facing trial in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa were not violated when the military took away his uniformed lawyers, a judge ruled Wednesday.

In this courtroom drawing by artist Janet Hamlin, reviewed by the U.S. military, Canadian-born accused terrorist Omar Khadr attends a pre-trial session in Camp Justice on the U.S. Navy Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Friday, Dec. 12, 2008. Khadr faces charges of murdering a U.S. soldier in a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan.

Canada Supreme Court hears Omar Khadr case

The federal government argued before the Supreme Court Friday that Canadian courts do not have the right to order authorities to seek the repatriation of the youngest detainee held by the U.S. at Guantánamo Bay. 1258757257

U.S. District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton

Detainee challenges judge to hear habeas petition

A man from Tajikistan seeking his freedom from the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is challenging a practice among federal judges here who are short-circuiting the cases of some long-time detainees.

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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 image approved for release by the U.S. military, a detainee gives visiting media a thumbs-down from inside his cell on March 31, 2009, at Camp 6, a maximum security prison with areas of lower security at the U.S. Navy base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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. Photo Gallery Available

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.

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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. 1258762114

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. 1258757257 Photo Gallery Available

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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. 1258762114

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. 1258757257 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

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. 1258757257 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.

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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