By Linda G. Richard
Well, that certainly didn’t take long. On June 12, 2008 the Supreme Court of the United States of America made a historic decision that never should have been necessary. In 2006, Bush found it in the best interest of his agenda to keep the detainees of his war on Afghanistan [...]
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 [...]
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The former chief prosecutor of military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, said Thursday that he was denied a service medal for criticizing the trial process.
Col. Morris Davis says the military is retaliating against him for criticizing Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, above.
Last week, Air Force Col. Morris Davis said he was notified that [...]
By BEN FOX
Associated Press Writer
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - The alleged “20th hijacker” in the Sept. 11 attacks tried to kill himself at Guantanamo last month, his lawyer disclosed Tuesday, saying the Saudi prisoner was distraught over a possible death sentence for charges later dropped by the Pentagon.
Mohammed al-Qahtani cut himself at least three [...]
The Associated Press
Military lawyers for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, and four alleged coconspirators are arguing that charges against their clients should be dropped following illegal meddling by a Pentagon official.
A motion filed late last week before a U.S. war-crimes tribunal at Guantanamo argues that the case has been [...]
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 [...]
By Aditya Rajagopalan
News Staff Writer
For years, Americans have responded in outrage when hearing of the jailing of monks, the incessant scourge of Tibetan cities, or the reprehensible human rights violations persisting in Tibet. And with the recent uprisings that have proliferated across Tibet, Americans have rightfully sought to “free Tibet,”; many have even called [...]
by Nat Hentoff
If the deciders at the White House, the Justice Department, and the CIA who are responsible for war crimes ever face the equivalent of the Nuremberg trials—or at least an unsparing Congressional investigation—an essential witness against them will be Murat Kurnaz. His book, Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantánamo [...]
He spent over four years in Guantánamo Bay, the infamous US detention camp. The tale of Murat Kurnaz, as told by himself, will hit US bookstores this week. In his first interview since his release from Guantánamo Bay in 2006, Kurnaz tells Germany’s “Stern”-magazine all about torture, solitary confinement, being humiliated, and his life in [...]
An innocent man held as a terror detainee for years tells Scott Pelley how Americans tortured him in Afghanistan and then at Guantanamo Bay;
by Daniel Johnson
Visiting Pakistan when he was just 19 years old, Murat Kurnaz was akin to a UC Irvine student studying abroad, as he came to the country to learn about the [...]
By Jane Sutton
GUANTANAMO BAY U. S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba, April 9 (Reuters) - In a hearing plagued by translation problems on Wednesday, a Saudi Arabian prisoner first criticized and then boycotted the U. S. war crimes court where he is accused of plotting with al Qaeda to blow up ships in the Middle East.
With the [...]
To the Editor:
Re “ ’03 U.S. Memo Approved Harsh Interrogations” (front page, April 2):
It’s high time that the authors of the Bush administration’s legal recipe book for torture be brought out of the kitchen and into the courtroom. Yet despite volumes of highly credible evidence of human rights crimes, or even war crimes, a negligent [...]
The Defense Department announced today that charges have been referred against Guantanamo detainee Mohammed Kamin of Afghanistan.
The charges allege that between January and May of 2003, Mohammed Kamin provided material support to terrorism by joining the terrorist organization al Qaeda and receiving training at al Qaeda training camps on making remote detonators for improvised explosive [...]
Colonel’s decision to resign won’t affect terrorism case against Canadian Omar Khadr, Pentagon says
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By Robert Parry [...]
By CAROL ROSENBERG
crosenberg@MiamiHerald.com
As the Guantánamo war court edges toward full-blown trials, closures, censorship and document delays cloud transparency.
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This sign marks the Pentagon’s
new pre-fabricated high-tech
court [...]
Apr 2 2008 by Greg O’Keeffe, Liverpool Echo
British Muslim Moazzam Begg spent two years in the notorious US Guantanamo Bay jail only to be released without charge. In Merseyside to give a lecture about the torture he witnessed, he speaks to Greg O’Keeffe
THEY CAME for Moazzam Begg in the dead [...]
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 ANNE FLAHERTY
The Associated Press
Salim Ahmed Hamdan is seen in this
undated file photo provided by
Prof. Neal Katyal. Military judges
dismissed charges Monday June 4, 2007
against Hamdan, a Guantanamo detainee
accused of chauffeuring Osama bin Laden,
throwing up roadblocks to the
Bush administration’s attempt to try
terror suspects in military courts.
(AP Photo/photo courtesy of Prof. Neal Katyal)
Failed attempts to charge [...]
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 [...]
An innocent man held as a terror detainee for years says he was tortured by Americans. Scott Pelley reports, Sunday,
(CBS) A German resident held by the U.S. for almost five years tells 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley that Americans tortured him in many ways - including hanging him from the ceiling for five days early [...]
Reprieve is releasing the third in a series of protest pieces called Sketches of My Nightmare, inspired by the suffering of Sami al Haj. Mr. al Haj is an al-Jazeera journalist picked up covering the Afghan war and sent to Guantánamo Bay. He has been on hunger strike in Guantánamo since January 7, 2007.
Sami al [...]
Lawyers contend US, Canada violated rights of Guantanamo detainee, seek interrogation details
The Associated Press Thursday, March 27, 2008
OTTAWA: The United States has violated international laws by holding a Canadian former child soldier at Guantanamo Bay, his lawyers told Canada’s high court as they sought to force the country’s intelligence service to provide details from their [...]
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