By Moazzam Begg - Cageprisoners.com
His hair has grown, his voice sounds a little deeper and his wounds appear to have healed somewhat. But what isn’t clear from the first ever Guantánamo interrogation video to be released for public consumption is that Omar Khadr is blind in one eye.
The Bagram airbase lies some 30miles [...]
Alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed was granted — and wielded — the right to censor his own courtroom sketch Thursday.
A British man held at Guantanamo Bay is to be charged with war crimes, despite pleas from the UK to release him.
Binyam Mohamed, 30, has been accused of plotting with al-Qaeda to bomb apartment buildings in America.
The Government requested last year that he be released from the notorious U.S. Navy base in Cuba, but [...]
I’m speechless. Simply without words to express the horror I feel as I read this article. No sight in one eye, the other is going, He grew up in a 6×8 cell alone. He’d just lost his father before he was taken… what do they expect him to do or say? His health is terrible [...]
Late last month, the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General issued a positive report on the FBI’s involvement in detainee interrogations in Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay and Iraq.I applaud the OIG’s recognition of a handful of career Justice attorneys and FBI officials who challenged abusive interrogation techniques - and warned correctly that torture would [...]
Any doubt that David Hicks was charged with war crimes for purely political reasons has been removed, his father and his lawyer say.
The former chief prosecutor of the US military commissions at Guantanamo Bay said overnight he would not have pursued Hicks because the case against the Australian was not serious enough.
The ex-prosecutor, Air Force [...]
By Miral Sattar
2006
I had been following Uzair Paracha’s trial closely in the news. I, like many others, was confident the jury would announce a ‘not guilty’ verdict.
Uzair Paracha, 26, is a Pakistani native and a graduate from the elite business school IBA, Institute of Business Administration. He is a legal immigrant who grew up in [...]
[JURIST] Sudanese Guantanamo Bay detainee Ibrahim al-Qosi [DOD materials; JURIST report] said at a pre-trial hearing Thursday that he plans to boycott his upcoming military commission trial, becoming the third Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee to announce boycott plans. Al-Qosi declined the assistance of a lawyer, saying that he did not believe in “the [...]
“This is the time to demonstrate to the world that the United States need not abandon its principles even as it seeks to ensure the safety of its citizens.” Janet Reno, former Attorney General and member of ACLU Guantanamo Defense “Dream Team”
It’s a difficult question, but it deserves a serious answer. Here’s why. The only [...]
Colonel’s decision to resign won’t affect terrorism case against Canadian Omar Khadr, Pentagon says
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From Cageprisoners…
Frank and his son, John, in New York City. Courtesy of Frank Lindh.
In an exclusive interview with Cageprisoners, the father of John Walker Lindh, Frank Lindh, discusses his son’s story. John Lindh, an American Muslim convert, was captured in Afghanistan in December 2001. Northern Alliance and US forces subsequently subjected Lindh to inhumane treatment [...]
By WILLIAM GLABERSON
NY Times
Lawyers for a Guantánamo detainee asked a military judge to declare that the detainee had been subjected to abusive interrogation techniques, including beatings and sexual humiliation, in a legal filing Friday that is expected to set the stage for many other challenges centering on the treatment of detainees.
The [...]
by Andy Worthington
Andy Worthington is a historian based in
London. He is the author of
The Guantánamo Files, the first book
to tell the stories [...]
WASHINGTON, March 31 (UPI) — Charges were sworn against the man the U. S. military said it believes was a key player in the 1998 attack on the U. S. Embassy in Tanzania, officials said.
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani of Zanzibar, Tanzania, now a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was accused of participating in planning and [...]
Omar Khadr is a Canadian citizen who was a 15-year-old child soldier when he allegedly killed a U. S. serviceman during a firefight in Afghanistan. The debate about his return to Canada must begin and end there. That the current and past Canadian governments have failed to secure his release and repatriation is a glaring [...]
By Carol Rosenberg
McClatchy Newspapers
MIAMI — The Navy lawyer for Osama bin Laden’s driver argues in a Guantánamo military commissions motion that senior Pentagon officials are orchestrating war-crimes prosecutions for the 2008 campaign.
The Pentagon declined Friday to address the defense allegations, noting that the issue is being litigated.
The brief filed Thursday by Navy Lt. Cmdr. Brian [...]
By ARIANE de VOGUE
Six years after he was captured by U.S. forces in Pakistan, Abu Zubaydah, an accused al Qaeda operative and one of three
men the government has admitted exposing to the extreme interrogation technique called waterboarding, is finally being represented by lawyers of his choice.
On Wednesday, the CIA cleared for release a brief filed [...]
WASHINGTON — A U.S. Army officer was going to have Canadian Omar Khadr executed after a July 2002 firefight in Afghanistan but was stopped at the last moment by Special Forces troops, according to a diary account.
The witness excerpt, contained in legal briefs released Wednesday by the U.S. Defence Department, confirmed that a second terror [...]
Monday, March 17, 2008
NEW YORK - Omar Khadr, in his first public words since U.S. forces seized him on an Afghan battlefield in 2002, details allegations of serious mistreatment by his American captors, and effective indifference by Canadian officials who visited him at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba.
The Toronto-born accused terrorist, who was [...]
NEW YORK — Omar Khadr alleges serious mistreatment by his U.S. captors — including that he was threatened with rape and was used as a mop to clean up urine on his cell floor — in his first public comments since he was detained on an Afghanistan battlefield in 2002.
The Toronto-born accused terrorist, who was [...]
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BOOK COVER: “Guantanamo’s Child, The Untold Story of Omar Khadr,” by Michelle Shephard
Slide show | Child [...]
WASHINGTON — Human rights groups are incensed about a startling revelation this week that one of Canadian Omar Khadr’s chief interrogators was a U.S. soldier involved in the horrific case of an Afghan prisoner who was tortured to death.
Sgt. Joshua Claus’s name came out in a Guantanamo Bay courtroom on Thursday, a slip by the [...]
From the Los Angeles Times
Prosecutors must make available a military commander who allegedly altered a report to cast blame on their client for the killing of a U.S. soldier.
By Carol J. Williams
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
GUANTANAMO BAY, [...]
By MARK MAZZETTI
WASHINGTON — The Central Intelligence Agency secretly detained a suspected member of Al Qaeda for at least six months beginning last summer as part of a program in which C.I.A. officers have been authorized by President Bush to use harsh interrogation techniques, American officials said Friday.
The suspect, Muhammad Rahim, is the first [...]
Fri Mar 14, 2008 3:20pm EDT
By Kristin Roberts
WASHINGTON, March 14 (Reuters) - A suspected high-level al Qaeda member who helped Osama bin Laden elude U.S. forces in Afghanistan has been captured and sent to the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, the Pentagon said on Friday.
The detainee, Muhammad Rahim, helped prepare the Tora Bora caves [...]
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