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  GUANTANAMO

  Base DJs riff Fidel Castro for fun, not profits

  Its motto is ‘Rockin’ in Fidel’s Backyard,’ although its on air jingle is more discrete. For listeners on the Guantánamo base, the station offers a little levity with the serious mission.
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  GUANTANAMO

  Secret Guantánamo cell block cost nearly $700,000

  It was built in 2007 but the detention center at Guantánamo only confirmed its existence earlier this month, and released a photo of the cramped cells they use to punish captives
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  In U.S. military leak case, closed hearing spars over digital evidence

  U.S. military prosecutors and defense lawyers argued Monday over evidence against an Army intelligence analyst charged with leaking massive amounts of secret U.S. data to WikiLeaks, while the public was shut out as the hearing dealt with classified but widely publicized information.
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  Prison camp discloses secret discipline unit

  In releasing a photo of the so-called discipline unit called “Five Echo,” the military at Guantánamo was showing to the public a detention block the media don’t see.

• WAR ON TERROR

  Defense bill ignites debate over treatment of terror suspects

  A defense bill approved by the Senate includes a provision that would require the military to arrest terrorist suspects in the United States and detain them indefinitely without trial.
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  Republican presidential candidates on terror

  Here’s where the 2012 Republican presidential candidates stand on the topic of terrorism , including what to do about the detention center at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, which today houses 171 captives, four of them convicts.
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  Obama lawyers: Citizens targeted if at war with U.S.

  U.S. citizens are legitimate military targets when they take up arms with al-Qaida, top national security lawyers in the Obama administration said Thursday.
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  GUANTANAMO

  Alleged al Qaida bomber emerges from CIA shadows, waves

  A reputed al Qaida chieftain emerged from the shadows of CIA confinement and interrogation Wednesday to face death-penalty charges as the alleged engineer of the 2000 USS Cole bombing, and got a minimum one-year delay until his murder and terror trial date.
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  GUANTANAMO

  Judge opens remote war court viewing site to ‘general public’

  Hours ahead of the arraignment of an alleged al-Qaida chieftain, a military judge on Tuesday ordered the Defense Department to admit dozens of members of the “general public” to the first-ever broadcast of a Guantánamo terror tribunal on U.S. soil.
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  GUANTANAMO

  Pentagon publishes war court procedures

  The Defense Department reactivated Camp Justice at Guantánamo on Monday, readying the first phase of a terror prosecution and releasing a key blueprint for war crimes cases.
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  USS COLE CASE

  Prosecutors propose wider public viewing of Guantánamo terror trial

  Pentagon prosecutors filed a transparency motion whose title proposes the general public get to watch broadcasts of the USS Cole terror trial to U.S. soil. For the moment, the substance of the proposal’s still secret.
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  War court

  Guantánamo’s war court can’t free captive found innocent

  A prosecutor told an Army judge that a military tribunal has the power to order an alleged bomber’s execution but no authority to free him if he’s acquitted.
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  Lawyers for al-Qaida suspect sue Lithuania in European court

  Lawyers for an alleged al-Qaida facilitator on Thursday filed a case against Lithuania at Europe’s court of human rights over torture and secret detention at a CIA-run site in the Baltic state.
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  Padilla lawyers appeal to reinstate torture suit

  Lawyers for convicted terrorist José Padilla ask a Virginia appeals court to reinstate his lawsuit alleging he was tortured at a U.S. Navy brig in South Carolina.
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  WAR COURT

  Defenders: Tell alleged bomber’s jury if acquittal means release

  In the war on terror detention system the Bush and Obama administrations built, a captive can be executed if he’s convicted of a capital crime and kept forever if he’s acquitted.
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  GUANTANAMO

  Lawyers file Bush torture complaint in Canada

  The move is part of a global Guantánamo protest effort to ground the man who set up the prison camps in 2002.
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  CUBA

  Pentagon: 'No vacancy’ at Guantánamo camps

  The Pentagon’s top lawyer said the White House still wants to empty the prison camps at Guantánamo and that congressional restrictions have for a year stalled transfers and releases.
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  War court

  Guantánamo Inc.? Oops

  The Pentagon quietly removed a © Copyright symbol from its war court website after a lawyer pointed out that the government doesn’t own its publications. The people do.
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  GUANTANAMO

  Judge resets USS Cole bombing case to Nov. 9

  Because defense lawyers sought the delay, there is no penalty for arraigning Saudi-born Abd al Rahim al Nashiri more than 30 days after a senior Pentagon official approved his death penalty prosecution.
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  GUANTANAMO

  Judge to arraign alleged al Qaida bomber Oct. 26

  A Saudi-born captive will be charged with capital crimes at the Guantánamo war court 11 years after the suicide bombing of the USS Cole and nine years after his capture by the CIA.

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