By Andy Worthington, AlterNet
A military jury’s verdict on Wednesday in the first U.S. war crimes trial since World War Two — that Yemeni Guantánamo prisoner Salim Hamdan is guilty of material support for terrorism, but not guilty of terrorism itself — was the culmination of two weeks of proceedings that provided some extraordinary insights into [...]
By WILLIAM GLABERSON
GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — As the military panel at the trial of a former driver for Osama bin Laden deliberated for a full day Tuesday without reaching a verdict, the presiding military judge said he might have given the members incorrect legal instructions about how the international law of war is to be [...]
..WHAT? I thought they were closing Guantanamo!
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — The commander of the Guantanamo Bay detention center said Saturday he has been researching new potential accommodations for Osama bin Laden’s driver, who could be held here indefinitely regardless of the verdict at his war crimes trial.
A jury of American military officers [...]
By JONATHAN MAHLER
Chief Prosecutor Robert Jackson opened the proceedings at Nuremberg not with a list of Nazi atrocities but with a tribute to the war-crimes court itself: “That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law [...]
The “capture videos” the Pentagon aims to bury, late-night brutality pointing to the CIA — and even a surreal viewing of “The Dark Knight” here in Guantánamo.
Salon Editor’s note: Since May, staff members of Human Rights Watch have been reporting on U.S. judicial proceedings at Guantánamo for Salon.
By Julia Hall
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — Given all [...]
By MIKE MELIA
In this file photograph of a sketch by
courtroom artist Janet Hamlin, reviewed
by the U.S. Military, defendant Salim
Hamdan watches as FBI agent Craig
Donnachie testifies about his
interrogations of Hamdan, while a
picture of disguised U.S. agents is
displayed on a screen, during
Hamdan’s trial inside the war crimes
courthouse at [...]
ALEXANDRIA – The Bush Administration’s persecution of Dr. Sami Al Arian reached new heights on Thursday when prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia brought charges against him, entering a new phase in the politically-motivated campaign of the past five years.
The indictment charges Dr. Al-Arian with two counts of criminal contempt, relating to two attempts [...]
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