MiamiHerald.com: In the Courts

Justices reject Padilla, Guantánamo appeals

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:10 EDT

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up any of seven Guantánamo detainee cases, and also refused to reinstate a lawsuit by former ‘enemy combatant’ Jose Padilla against former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

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

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:52 EST

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.

Guantánamo judge won’t subpoena Yemeni leader

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:46 EST

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.

State Department: Guantánamo lawyers can’t question Yemeni leader

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:09 EST

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.

Alleged bomber's lawyer wants to question Yemeni leader

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:42 EST

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

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 10:18 EST

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.

No 9/11 trial this year at Guantánamo war court

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 05:00 EDT

A briefing schedule makes clear that the alleged Sept. 11 plotters won’t be back at the Camp Justice war court at Guantánamo until next year.

Pentagon announces trial of alleged Cole mastermind on new Guantánamo website

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:25 EDT

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.

Bitter analogy in war crime case: Indians, al Qaeda

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:20 EDT

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

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:37 EST

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. court orders ex-Russian dancer freed from Guant�namo

Thu, 13 May 2010 22:33 EDT

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 Guant�namo evidence innocent, officer says

Sun, 02 May 2010 11:32 EDT

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

Sat, 01 May 2010 10:54 EDT

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 Guant�namo

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:13 EDT

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

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:52 EDT

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.

Guantánamo captives winning lawsuits

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:41 EDT

In one federal courtroom last month, a defense lawyer argued that the U.S. military had coerced a false confession out of a 50-year-old Kuwaiti who has been at Guantánamo for seven years.

Judge rules Kuwaiti at Guantánamo was foot soldier

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:28 EDT

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.

Captives brag of 9/11 roles

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:53 EST

Two former CIA-held captives boasted of their role in the 9/11 attacks Monday, as the Pentagon's war-crimes court convened for perhaps its final session on the eve of President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration.

U.S. judge orders release of young Gitmo detainee

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:48 EST

A federal judge has ordered the military to release a Guantánamo Bay detainee who was arrested in Pakistan when he was 14.

Bin Laden propagandist convicted

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:41 EST

A military jury Monday convicted Osama bin Laden's media secretary of war crimes for creating an al Qaeda recruiting video that prosecutors argued incited suicide bombers.