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Published: Monday, June 30, 2008 at 2:03 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, June 30, 2008 at 2:13 p.m. WASHINGTON The Pentagon said Monday it is charging a Saudi Arabian with "organizing and directing" the 2000 ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- U.S. prosecution of terror suspects at its Guantanamo Bay detention facility fall short of international standards for fair trials, a U.N. rights official said Monday.

A federal appeals court reviewing evidence at Guantanamo Bay compared a Bush administration legal argument to one made by a hapless, dimwitted character in a 19th century nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll.

Members of the U.S. military stand watch in a guard tower at dusk along the fence line of Camp Delta.

I was reading a post today at Moonbattery about Amnesty International that included this picture: It also linked to this story from CNS News about yet another ridiculous Gitmo protest: Amnesty International USA ...

No matter what happens to America's offshore military prison, this much is clear: This Navy base will remain open for years to come, and so probably will the McDonald's, the Taco Bell and the golf course.

'We're not going anywhere anytime soon,' declared Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey M. Johnston, who gets upset when people equate the closing of the detention center for suspected al-Qaida and Taliban figures with a shutdown of this 45-square-mile base.

The U.S. maintained this base long before the first detainees arrived in January 2002. U.S. Marines took Guantanamo Bay in 1898 in the Spanish-American War in a battle chronicled by author and correspondent Stephen Crane.

A Sudanese journalist recently freed after more than six years at Guantanamo Bay says detainees are frequently moved around to agitate and punish them.

A judge has refused to postpone the trial of former Osama bin Laden driver Salim Hamdan, saying the defense has enough time to study a recent Supreme Court decision and see how it might apply to the first ...

Photo Credit: AP Photo David Addington, chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, waits to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 26, 2008, before the House Constitution, Civil Right, and ...

The treatment a U.S. official said Omar Khadr received at Guantanamo Bay to prepare him for an interview by a member of foreign affairs was a violation of international human rights, a Canadian federal court ...

Kansas lawmakers are discouraging any talk of moving detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

A federal court says the National Security Agency does not need to tell lawyers whether their phones were tapped as part of the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program.

Tue, Jun 24, 2008 The new Guantanamo Bay detention center commander, who was at the Pentagon on Sept.

A federal appeals court announced Monday that it has overturned the Pentagon's classification of a Guantanamo Bay detainee as an enemy combatant.

In the first Guantanamo Bay case to be reviewed, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in favor of Huzaifa Parhat, a Chinese Muslim known as a Uighur, undermining the basis for his more than six years in detention.

The appeals court directed the U.S. military to release Parhat, to transfer him or to hold a new proceeding promptly in light of the appeals court's ruling.

"We already have very robust procedures that actually exceed what prisoners would get under the Geneva Conventions," said Kyndra, "so I think the Supreme Court made a mistake stepping into a system that was ...

Sweden will deport a former prisoner from the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba to Albania, Swedish Migration Board officials said.

A U.S. appeals court said yesterday it will not intervene in the military commission case against Omar Khadr, the Canadian held at Guantanamo Bay.

Submitted by SHNS on Fri, 06/20/2008 - 15:28. Without question, Boumediene v. Bush is a landmark legal decision in America's war on terrorism.

The Bush administration wants to rewrite the official evidence against Guantanamo Bay detainees, allowing it to shore up its cases before they come un ...

The Supreme Court's 5-4 opinion in Boumediene v. Bush will go down as one of the most egregiously-wrong decisions in history.

Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, June 21, 2008; Page A01 Senior lawyers inside and outside the Bush administration repeatedly warned the White House that it was risking judicial scrutiny of its detention ...

"As Omar Khadr's war crimes trial pushes forward this week, his lawyers are furiously working behind the scenes to establish a rehabilitative program that would ease the Toronto detainee back to freedom.

US Senator and Republican presidential candidate John McCain has said he will close the Guantanamo Bay prison if he is elected to the White House in November.

The Bush administration wants to rewrite the official evidence against Guantanamo Bay detainees.

A federal appeals court Friday refused to intervene in the military commission case against a Canadian detainee.

A three-judge panel agreed that it has no authority to deal with issues at this time in the planned war crimes trial of Omar Khadr, who is among the first detainees scheduled to be tried under the new military commission system.

Khadr, held at Guantanamo Bay, is accused of killing a U.S. soldier during a firefight in Afghanistan in 2002.

Lawyers brought Khadr's case to Washington after a military appeals panel ruled against him last September, clearing the way for his trial, which is scheduled to begin Oct. 8.

THE KEY WORDS in Justice Anthony Kennedy's Guantanamo opinion do not involve the history of habeas corpus, the territorial status of Guantanamo Bay or the accountability of the executive branch to the rule of ...

The US Supreme Court's decision on Guantanamo Bay is a victory for the rule of law.

A Guantanamo prisoner testified Thursday that U.S. troops made loud noises, kept the lights on in his cell, and frequently moved him around the prison to deprive him of sleep.

Mohammed Jawad, an Afghan detainee charged with attempted murder, told a military court he does not know why he was subjected to the military's 'frequent flyer' sleep deprivation program in May 2004, nearly 17 months after he was arrested.

'Day and night, they were shifting me from one room to another,' Jawad said.

Court drawing of Omar Khadr, who is currently imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

By: SilentPatriot on Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 at 2:00 PM - PDT During an interview with Sky News , President Bush accused British journalist Adam Boulton of "slander[ing] America" when he noted that, despite ...

Sweden denied asylum Thursday to a Chinese Muslim who was released from Guantanamo Bay after the U.S. acknowledged he was not a terrorist.

For those still concerned about U.S. torture policy, yesterday was not an encouraging day .

Medical examinations of former terrorism suspects held by the U.S. military at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, found evidence of torture and other abuse that resulted in serious injuries and mental disorders, according to a human rights group.

For the most extensive medical study of former U.S. detainees published so far, Physicians for Human Rights had doctors and mental health professionals examine 11 former prisoners. The group alleges finding evidence of U.S. torture and war crimes and accuses U.S. military health professionals of allowing the abuse of detainees, denying them medical care and providing confidential medical information to interrogators that they then exploited.

Former terrorist suspects detained by the United States were tortured, according to medical examinations detailed in a report released Wednesday by a human rights group.

Last week the Supreme Court ruled that Guantanamo Bay detainees could challenge their detention in federal court.

In a hearing today on the Hill, Michigan Senator Carl Levin -- who is also the Democratic head of the Senate Armed Services Committee -- tied US interrogation policies to former Bush Secretary of Defense Donald ...

The U.S. war crimes court goes back into session this week as lawyers for defendants look for ways to use a new Supreme Court ruling to derail the prosecution of suspected terrorists.

Given their proclivity for equating Democrats and softness on terrorism, you'd think the Supreme Court decision preserving habeas corpus rights for Guantanamo prisoners would favor Republicans -- teeing up ...

Military psychologists were enlisted to help develop more aggressive interrogation methods, including snarling dogs, forced nudity and long periods of standing, against terrorism suspects, according to a Senate investigation.

Before they were approved by then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, such harsh techniques had drawn warnings from military lawyers that they could be illegal, an investigation by the Senate Armed Services Committee has found. Officials familiar with the findings discussed them on condition of anonymity because the information has not been formally released.

The United States has wrongly held dozens, perhaps hundreds, of men as terrorists based on flimsy or fabricated evidence, a report published Sunday claims.

"I view it very much as a national treasure, and I am the temporary custodian and try to take care of it, and hopefully pass it off in good shape one day." -Tim Russert, in an interview with Inside the Beltway ...

It shouldn't be necessary for the Supreme Court to tell the president that he can't have individuals taken into custody, spirited to a remote prison camp and held indefinitely, with no legal right to argue that ...

The Guant namo Bay detention center will not close today or any day soon. But a Supreme Court decision Thursday stripped away the legal premise for the remote prison camp that officials opened six years ago in ...

GARDEZ, Afghanistan The militants crept up behind Mohammed Akhtiar as he squatted at the spigot to wash his hands before evening prayers at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.They shouted Allahu Akbar God is ...

BACKGROUND: Guantanamo Bay detainees are entitled to a judicial review of their imprisonment, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

PEMBERTON: John McCain on Friday lambasted the US Supreme Court's decision to grant greater rights to prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, aligning himself with George W Bush at a time when the unpopular president is ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto RicoA U.S. military judge today rejected a request to postpone an upcoming pretrial hearing for a Guantanamo prisoner following a Supreme Court ruling that detainees at the base in Cuba have ...

John McCain called the Supreme Court's recent ruling about Guantanamo Bay 'one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.' The court said foreigners at Guantanamo have the constitutional right to ...

Brussels, Belgium -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates says reports of detainee abuse in the early years of the Guantanamo Bay prison operation have given the United States "a black eye." As for yesterday's ...

The Supreme Court's landmark Guantanamo Bay decision Thursday could free foreign prisoners while it inflames Capitol Hill.

THE conviction of terrorism supporter David Hicks has been called into question by an overnight ruling of the US Supreme Court, the Australian Greens say.

A Supreme Court decision granting terrorism suspects the right to challenge their detentions in civilian courts has touched off a scramble at the federal courthouse in Washington.

Once more, Harold Lee and Kumar Patel are on a road trip, this time not in search of the perfect late-night slider-a positively Homerian quest-but the old college friend who can clear their good names with the ...

MIAMI -- Critics of the war crimes tribunal at Guantanamo Bay have consistently assailed the coerced confessions that may be used as evidence against the defendants and have repeatedly charged that the ...

Over two-thirds of the detainees in the Guantanamo Bay prison are suffering from or at risk of mental problems because they are kept isolated in small cells with little light or fresh air, according to Human ...

The U. S. Pentagon abruptly replaced the military judge in the Omar Khadr case yesterday after he chastised the prosecution at a recent Guantanamo Bay hearing.

The U.S. ambassador to Kuwait said Monday that although Kuwaitis account for only a small percentage of foreign insurgents fighting in Iraq, their funding from the oil-rich country remains a concern that must ...

New York, June 9 : Human Rights Watch, a US-based group of lawyers, journalists, academics, and HR experts, has said that America should immediately implement the recommendations of a new UN report calling on ...

When at last he got the chance to speak, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed planner of the Sept.

The Pentagon urged interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to destroy handwritten notes in case they were called to testify about potentially harsh treatment of detainees, a military defense lawyer said Sunday.

The accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks said he welcomed martyrdom at U.S. hands, as he and four codefendants asked to be tried for war crimes without the benefit of lawyers.

Thursday's arraignment at this isolated U.S. Navy base marked the first time that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the former No. 3 leader of al-Qaida, has been seen since he was captured in Pakistan in 2003.

Mohammed said he would welcome being executed after the judge warned him he faces the death penalty if convicted of organizing the attacks on America.

BOISE, Idaho - A Boise lawyer working to defend detainees facing military trials at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba has criticized a military court's decision to allow a Khalid Sheik Mohammed to represent himself.

Kabul: An American military spokesperson has dismissed any suggestion that a new prison planned for Afghanistan is intended to receive prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, the detention centre in Cuba that is facing ...

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind, is seen shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan in this file photo from March 1, 2003 in this photo obtained by the Associated Press.

By Jane Sutton

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - As the Guantanamo war crimes court prepared to arraign five prisoners on death penalty charges of orchestrating the September 11 attacks, a Pentagon official apologized on Wednesday for excluding victims' families from the hearing.

The U.S. military quietly invited one woman whose brother was an American Airlines pilot killed in the plane that crashed into the Pentagon in the 2001 attacks.

But the invitation to attend Thursday's arraignment at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba was rescinded when the New York Daily News revealed that lone invitee Debra Burlingame was an ardent defender of President George W. Bush who spoke in support of his administration at the Republican Party convention during his 2004 re-election campaign.

The last thing that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed should be allowed is martyrdom, unfortunately he probably has that already regardless of the outcome of his trial at Guantanamo Bay.

The fight to shutdown the Guantanamo Bay detention center came to Maine Thursday.

The man suspected of planning the 9-11 attacks says he'd welcome execution because it would make him a martyr.

More than 6 years after devastating suicide attacks against the United States sparked the Bush administration's fight against global terrorism, the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001, plot is ...

London, June 5 : In a startling revelation, a top UK legal official has said that in exchange of millions of dollars, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf had allowed a large number of his countrymen to be put ...

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind, is seen shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan in this file photo from March 1, 2003 in this photo obtained by the Associated Press.

Lawmakers chastised the Bush administration on Wednesday for allowing the Chinese government to interrogate Chinese Muslim detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay and demanded they be freed in ...

In this April 18, 2006 file photo, then Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld responds to a reporter's question during a news conference at the Pentagon in Washington.

FARMINGTON, Pa. - Attorney General Michael Mukasey is defending the use of military commissions to prosecute suspected terrorists.

By Josh White Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, June 4, 2008; Page A16 More than 6 1/2 years after devastating suicide attacks against the United States launched the Bush administration's fight against ...

U.S. military prosecutors at Guantanamo Bay have filed war-crimes charges against a former British resident accused of plotting with al-Qaida to bomb apartment buildings in the United States, the Pentagon said ...

An American lawyer pleaded on Monday for the Pakistan government to intervene on behalf of a prisoner being held at the U.S. detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay Consensus: It may not equal its predecessor, but Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay is still good for some laughs -- and food for thought.

REGISTER STAFF REPORTS Posted at 19:57 on 05/31/2008 Four Iowans were among 34 activists sentenced Friday for protesting the United States government's treatment of Guantanamo Bay detainees.