Guantanamo Bay News Archives

A detainee assaulted the Navy admiral in charge of the Guantanamo Bay detention center with a "cocktail" of bodily fluids on a recent tour inside the razor wire, military officials said Thursday.

A former driver for Osama bin Laden denied Wednesday that he had sworn a loyalty oath to the al-Qaida leader, contradicting potentially damaging testimony of a Defense Department interrogator.

Security and intelligence agencies involved in cooperating with the US in unlawful treatment of UK resident The security and intelligence agencies were "mixed up in wrongdoing" in cooperating with the US in the ...

An influential congressional committee has delivered a scathing criticism of China's closed trial of 15 men on terrorism charges.

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba : On the surface, the proceedings unfolding inside a makeshift courthouse on a hill here resemble a U.S. trial.

A British resident facing a military trial in Guantanamo Bay is due to launch a legal battle to force the release of evidence allegedly held by the UK Government.

A British resident facing a military trial in Guantanamo Bay is due to launch a legal battle to force the release of evidence allegedly held by the UK Government.

A British resident facing a military trial in Guantanamo Bay is due to launch a legal battle to force the release of evidence allegedly held by the UK Government.

A British resident facing a military trial in Guantanamo Bay is due to launch a legal battle to force the release of evidence allegedly held by the UK Government.

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba - Prosecutors in the trial of Osama bin Laden's driver unveiled a graphic video on Monday of the September 11 attacks and other al Qaeda operations that ...

A British resident facing a military trial in Guantanamo Bay is due to launch a legal battle to force the release of evidence allegedly held by the UK Government.

A British resident facing a military trial in Guantanamo Bay is due to launch a legal battle to force the release of evidence allegedly held by the UK Government.

A British resident facing a military trial in Guantanamo Bay is due to launch a legal battle to force the release of evidence allegedly held by the UK Government.

A British resident facing a military trial in Guantanamo Bay is due to launch a legal battle to force the release of evidence allegedly held by the UK Government.

Rep. Louie Gohmert apparently hasn't taken kindly to the U.S. Supreme Court's insistence that the judiciary has a right to play a role in determining the fate of the detainees held at Guantanamo Bay.

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba The name of the Central Intelligence Agency cannot be spoken in the war crimes trial here.

DOHA, Qatar : Qatar's official news agency says a Qatari man has been released from the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay and has returned home.

Police have charged a man with the murder of a woman who fell from the window of a town centre bedsit, they said.

A British resident facing a military trial in Guantanamo Bay is due to launch a legal battle to force the release of evidence allegedly held by the UK Government said to support his claim that he was the victim ...

After reading through Boumediene v. Bush , I cannot help but feel that it is simply about the judiciary expanding its own power by usurping the clearly defined constitutional powers of Congress and the ...

Karim Khadr, brother of Omar Khadr, who is in Guantanamo Bay military prison, attends a rally in Toronto on Saturday, July 26, 2008 to press for the return of his brother from Guantanamo Bay.

A last-minute plea deal could halt the first war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay on Monday, but military lawyers and observers say that appears extremely unlikely at this late stage.

The Pentagon already has brought witnesses to the U.S. Navy base in Cuba and assembled a jury pool of American military officers, preparations that had not been made before a plea deal that ended the case against Australian David Hicks in March 2007.

Military prosecutors are also eager to use the case of Salim Hamdan, a former driver and alleged bodyguard for Osama bin Laden, to showcase a tribunal system that has seen repeated legal setbacks.

"Historic first terror trial opens at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Hamdan case tests special courts for 'illegal enemy combatants'": Warren Richey has this article today in The Christian Science Monitor.

A Nobel-prize-winning rights group said US officials committed war crimes by ordering what the group says was torture of detainees, and called for them to be probed and prosecuted.

Video footage of a young Canadian detainee being interrogated at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay has sparked a fierce debate among Canadians who worry whether the case is hurting their country's ...

The Justice Department in 2002 told the CIA that its interrogators would be safe from prosecution for violations of anti-torture laws if they believed 'in good faith' that harsh techniques used to break the ...

"Our policy at the time was not to read Miranda rights," FBI special agent Robert Fuller said.

I wanted to flag a great interview with Jane Mayer I heard this morning on Democracy Now radio.

U.S. District Judge James Robertson denied a request by Salim Hamdan, a former driver for Osama bin Laden, to halt his war crimes trial scheduled for next week.

Along with other past and present administration officials, Attorney General Michael Mukasey supports lawlessness and police state justice.

A video frame grab from an edited video released by Omar Khadr's lawyers. Nearly eight in 10 Canadians who saw Omar Khadr's interrogation video say it did not change their opinions of his case, according to a ...

Osama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Hamdan, pleaded not guilty on Monday at the opening of the first trial before a special "war on terror" military tribunal at the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ...

A former driver for Osama bin Laden knew the target of the fourth hijacked plane on September 11, a prosecutor said today, as he sought to undercut defence arguments that the Guantanamo prisoner was a low-level ...

Talk about 'My Guantanamo' on Blog of the Nation. Talk of the Nation , After the terrorist attacks on Sept.

With all the attention paid recently to Omar Khadr, it is surprising that more scrutiny hasn't been given to the characteristics of the legal system he is facing.

As the trials of suspected terrorists begin, the US military commissions' questionable legal status may undermine justice All comments Today marks the beginning of the first trial in a military commission at ...

Osama bin Laden's former driver is scheduled to stand trial on Monday in the first war crimes tribunal at America's terrorist prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The historic action comes nearly seven years after President Bush first moved to establish military commissions to try suspected Al Qaeda terrorists.

The special military commission process was designed to offer a stripped-down version of justice to illegal enemy combatants who, by engaging in terrorism, were said to have forfeited any right to more robust legal protections.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is indifferent to Omar Khadr's plight because the Guantanamo Bay prisoner is "brown-skinned" and a Muslim, the leader of one of Canada's largest Islamic groups said Monday.

Attorney General Michael Mukasey wants Congress to figure out how to give Guantanamo Bay terror detainees their day in U.S. civilian courts.

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- When Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi, the 39-year-old Saudi alleged to have been al-Qaida's financial manager, appeared before the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay last month, his lawyer, ...

US human rights lawyers charged Sunday that US military prisons are "legal black holes" and the force is detaining journalists to "shut people up" about activities in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Omar Khadr would likely never face conviction in Canada even if there was a way to charge him with an offence under Canadian law, legal experts who advocate his repatriation acknowledge.

U.S. military officials Sunday prepared for the first war-crimes trial for a Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainee.

Attorneys for a young Canadian held at Guantanamo Bay as a terror suspect are urging he be repatriated after footage of his interrogation was released.

SANA'A, July 16 - "If you hear about torture, you might think about how much people are suffering.

The lawyers say the evidence will be added to the results of the defence's wider investigation of the July, 2002, firefight, and show that the American assault had been a "botched operation." This week, the ...

Thursday, July 17, 2008 The video footage, released in Toronto by the lawyers of captive Omar Khadr, which shows him repeatedly calling out for help as he is questioned, offers another shocking insight into US ...

Young Canadian accused of throwing grenade at US officer suffered 'frequent flyer' sleep deprivation treatment The secrets of interrogation at Guantanamo Bay prison camp were broadcast for the first time ...

The first war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay can begin Monday, a federal judge ruled, saying civilian courts should let the military process play out as Congress intended.

The Bush administration is telling a federal appeals court that it has the authority to detain a Canadian who was captured in Afghanistan when he was 15 and is accused of killing a U.S. soldier.

A former Canadian diplomat whose cloak of obscurity has been ripped away by new insights into the treatment of Omar Khadr said yesterday he feels demonized for his visits to the Guantanamo Bay prisoner.

Despite Prime Minister Stephen Harper's assertion that Omar Khadr should be tried for war crimes in the United States, the American military lawyer who will defend the Canadian citizen at trial said Wednesday ...

Canada's spy agency has the green light to meet with a Canadian detained abroad before consular officials do when there are "urgent national security or terrorism-related considerations," says a newly disclosed ...

By Jerry Markon Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 17, 2008; Page A14 GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba , July 16 -- In the days before the Sept.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that President George W. Bush has the power to keep a terrorist suspect jailed indefinitely, but that the detainee has the right to challenge his detention as an "enemy ...

The first video of a terror suspect being interrogated at Guantanamo Bay has been released by his lawyer.

DVDs about to be released by teenage prisoner's defence team will provide rare glimpse of agency's operations and tactics COLIN FREEZE July 14, 2008 When a Canadian spymaster was asked three years ago whether ...

The German government says one of its agents helped broker a prisoner swap between Israel and Hezbollah through what it called difficult and protracted efforts.

By James Vicini

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department urged a federal judge in Washington to allow the first Guantanamo Bay war crimes trial to begin next week in a case involving Osama bin Laden's former driver.

In court documents made available on Tuesday, the department opposed the request by attorneys for Salim Hamdan to stop his trial, which is scheduled to begin on July 21, while he challenges the military tribunal system.

Hamdan, the driver for al Qaeda leader bin Laden in Afghanistan, would be the first prisoner tried in the U.S. war crimes court at the Guantanamo naval base in Cuba. About 265 detainees are at the base, which was set up in January 2002 to hold terrorism suspects captured after the September 11 attacks.

" A newly-released document suggests Osama bin Laden's former driver may have been subjected to 50 days of sleep deprivation at the Guantanamo prison camp in Cuba, the prisoner's defense lawyers said on 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.

U.S. lawyers for terror detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan said Monday they intend to call other detainees to testify at his Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, trial.

The first time Omar Khadr was questioned, he was lying in a military hospital bed in Afghanistan with two gaping holes in his chest - " the exit wounds of the bullets that were shot through his back before his ...

When accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed grumbled to the U.S. military war tribunal he couldn't get paper or file legal motions with the court, he was told to put his complaints in legal ...

A US lawyer, dealing with a case against a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner, has told the press his client suffered health problems when he was subjected to two weeks of sleep deprivation.

Khadr is Canada's only prisoner detained by the United States at Guantanamo Bay.

NOTE: This post is part of continuing coverage of the lower courts' role in implementing the Supreme Court's June 12 decision in Boumediene v. Bush , clarifying the legal rights of detainees held by the U.S. ...

An Afghan prisoner suffered significant weight loss and other health problems when the military subjected him to two weeks of sleep deprivation at Guantanamo in 2004, his lawyer said Friday.

"The time has come to move these forward," Judge Thomas F. Hogan said Tuesday during the first hearing over whether the detainees are being held lawfully.

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - A Guantanamo prisoner accused in the Sept. 11 attacks complained Wednesday that his confinement and obstructions by the U.S. military are complicating his court-approved effort ...

A military attorney who recently returned from duty at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba says prisoners there are well treated despite reports to the contrary.

The Bush administration says it has already cleared one in five detainees at Guantanamo Bay for release from the military-run facility in Cuba.

U.S. military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay resume this week even as new legal challenges could throw the system into further turmoil.

Federal District judges in Washington, D.C., who will handle scores of pending and likely future challenges by Guantanamo Bay detainees to their confinement, decided on Monday to shift them temporarily to one ...

What part of habeas corpus don't conservatives understand? Judging from their reaction to the June 12 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the Military Commissions Act of 2006 - which denied the ...

U.S. and Yemen remain at odds over a proposal to release more than one-third of the detainees from Guantanamo Bay, officials said Monday, even as the Bush administration wrestles with the future of the military ...

A federal court strikes another blow against the flimsy process used to justify detentions of 'enemy combatants.' COMMENT Monday, July 7, 2008; Page A12 THE CASE OF Huzaifa Parhat provides the clearest, most ...

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba - America is considering transforming the Guantanamo Bay terrorism prison into a base for a Marines "rapid reaction force" to deal with threats in Central America.

As my colleague Marjorie Cohn notes , Justice Scalia apparently relied on incorrect information in his Boumediene dissent.

The Bush administration is locked in an internal debate over whether to present Congress with proposed legislation that would allow suspected terrorists to be held in the United States - a possible first step ...

The sun rises over the razor-wired detention compound called Camp Delta at the U.S. Navy Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

On his "Hannity's America" show on Sunday, Fox News host Sean Hannity brought on former Judge Advocate General Kyndra Miller Rotunda, who has publicly blasted the Supreme Court's recent ruling on Guantanamo as ...

Feature Release Date: June 27, 2008 Contact: Public Affairs 220-7237 GUARDING GITMO Photos Available SEATTLE - Petty Officer 3rd Class Adam Upham, pictured left and Petty Officer 3rd Class Todd Robinson patrol ...

The Court ruled [opinion, PDF; JURIST report ] in Boumediene v. Bush last month that "enemy combatants" have the right to challenge their detention by filing habeas corpus petitions in federal court [JURIST ...

" The White House said Thursday that dangerous detainees at Guantanamo Bay could end up walking Main Street U.S.A. as a result of last month's Supreme Court ruling about detainees' legal rights" ....if this ...

Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, July 4, 2008; Page A01 The Bush administration is developing a long-range plan to empty the Guantanamo Bay military prison that could include asking Congress to spell out ...

"Few are guilty; all are responsible." - Abraham Joshua Heschel During the last week of May, I joined 33 other individuals on trial in Washington, D.C.'s Superior Court.