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The only thing he's being consistent on is his inconsistency. Seems like after weeks of incendiary, obtuse and frankly incoherent rhetoric on Guantanamo Bay detainees and the probability of their transfer to the U.S. for trial and detention, Rep.

Two Tunisians who had been detained at Guantanamo arrived in Italy late Monday and will be tried on international terrorism charges for having allegedly recruited fighters for Afghanistan, officials said.

After Zacarias Moussaoui - the accused "20th hijacker" in the terrorist attacks of Sept.

South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster is touring a Navy brig that could one day hold Guantanamo Bay detainees.

By 59% to 36%, more Americans believe accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed should be tried in a military court, rather than in a civilian criminal court.

As the trial of Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11 atrocities starts in a US federal court in Manhattan, the debate is raging over the decision of the Obama administration to close Guantanamo and transfer all the files to regular courts within the United States.

Some of the six men convicted in one of the nation's first major terror related cases following the Sept.

The Chicago Tribune reports that terror suspect David Headley, aka Daood Gilani, is cooperating with authorities and providing information about the Mumbai terror attacks of November, 2008.

It's time for liberals to make a choice. They can support the Obama administration.

Coming from a human rights group or Opposition dominated parliamentary committee, the analysis would be completely unremarkable.

A Navy SEAL born and raised in south suburban Blue Island is among three soldiers charged with abusing an Iraqi captive suspected of plotting attacks in Falluja, says the Sun-Times. Petty Officer Julio Huertas is scheduled to go before a special court martial in January.

Critics of Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to prosecute Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four alleged Sept.

A mostly vacant northwestern Illinois prison that potentially could house terrorism detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, continued to be a subject of political back-and-forth on Friday, with the Illinois House's top Republican calling on his Democratic counterpart to form a special House panel on the subject.

Talk about staying true to one's convictions. Less than one week after being tapped by President Obama for a key post on a board overseeing government-sponsored international broadcasting, former Bush spokesperson Dana Perino blasted the current administration for creating a "mockery" out of the justice system and suggested that the president ...

A key state legislator wants to fast-track hearings on the possible sale of a northwestern Illinois prison to the federal government.

Now here's a suggestion for Osama bin Laden. Shave your beard, get a good haircut, rent a tux and show up at a White House State Dinner with a tall, elegant blonde in a very chi-chi evening gown.

Dent fears the CIA will be brought into question. Murphy wants a speedy death for terrorists.

On Sept. 12, 2001, Americans were nearly unanimous in their belief that terrorism was a very real and serious threat to our country.

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Worried about trying the ringleader of the 9-11 terrorists and four of his close associates in a civilian courtroom? Don't be, our president says.

Instead, they will stand trial in a federal civilian court, near the scene of one of their crimes, the World Trade Center.

A group against bringing the self-professed mastermind of the September 11 attacks to trial in a U.S. civilian court will hold a rally in New York demanding Washington reconsider its decision, the group said on Tuesday.

The official in charge of closing the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention center has resigned, the Pentagon said Wednesday.

Three U.S. Navy SEALs face criminal charges after the alleged mastermind of one of the most notorious crimes against Americans in Iraq accused them of punching him after his capture, the military said Wednesday.

Cubans are scrambling to turn off lights and appliances and children are going door to door reminding them to do just that under a government threat of dreaded blackouts if energy consumption is not reduced through the end of the year.

Public approval of President Obama's handling of the war in Afghanistan has plummeted, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, amid rising pessimism about the course of the conflict.

Another mother comes forward with concerns about who is riding the bus with her child.

The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy.

Anniversaries, it might have occurred to the Queen as she stepped off the plane at the start of her state visit to Bermuda, can be bitter-sweet occasions.

Khalid Sheik Mohammed has acknowledged doing what his nephew Ramzi Yousef couldn't: toppling the World Trade Center towers.

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Lawyers say the five men accused of planning the 9-11 attacks will plead not guilty when they go on trial in New York.

Lawyers representing a former Swedish terror suspect who spent time in the United States' Guantanamo Bay prison, claim their client was not traveling to any trouble spots when he was arrested in Pakistan in August.

Sarah Palin brought her book-signing tour to North Carolina's Fort Bragg on Monday as thousands greeted the former Republican vice presidential candidate in a campaign-like gathering that tested military rules involving politicians.The Department of Defense typically prohibits politicians from using installations as a platform, so Palin didn't give ...

The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy.

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Alexandrian Films, Inc. is pleased to announce its new feature film "Kalifornistan," a provocative satire about an Islamic terrorist who is bent on destroying Los Angeles - until he gets distracted by a sexy exotic dancer.

Self-confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed after his capture during a raid in Pakistan early in 2003 Friday November 20 2009 It will be hard to find jurors who can hear the case with open minds Prepare yourselves for the trial of the century -- if not the millennium.

Today, members of the Illinois Congressional Delegation joined Congressman Peter Roskam in sending a letter to President Barack Obama requesting a National Security Council briefing, after one of the five Democrat Senate candidates, Alexi Giannoulias, disclosed that he received a NSC briefing in an interview this morning .

Thousands of jobs would be created in Illinois if the U.S. government purchases a nearly empty prison there to house terror detainees, a study indicates.

An Algerian court on Sunday acquitted two former detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who were returned home to face charges of links to terrorism, their defense lawyer said.

Republicans Trey Grayson and Rand Paul exchanged sharp words on the issue of Guantanamo Bay, and Democrats Jack Conway and Daniel Mongiardo squabbled about their alliances with coal.

Aside from taking a moment to wish the Obamas a "happy and joyous holiday season," FOX News 's Major Garrett cut right to the chase in his interview with President Obama in Beijing.

Ethiopian-born Binyam Mohamed claims the US and Britain were complicit in his torture in Pakistan and Morocco, and his lawyers are pressing for Britain to release a seven-paragraph summary of US intelligence files on his detention - a document he claims proves Britain's complicity.

The loudest voices on the right never tire of telling us that they are the truest patriots.

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TERRORISTS by definition try to frighten you into changing the way you do things.

Fedearl Bureau of Prisons director Harley Lappin talks Monday about jobs that would be created in the Thomson, Ill., area from Guantanamo Bay detainees being held at the Thomson Correctional Facility.

Officials in a small Michigan town featured in a new video about Guantanamo by Liz Cheney's national security group want her to know that they're not falling for her "fearmongering" -- and say they want Gitmo detainees in their town.

Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown wants President Barack Obama to overrule the attorney general on trying the accused Sept.

Attorney General Eric Holder adopted a tough guy pose when he announced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others will be tried in federal court for the most heinous terror attack on Americans in history.

Republican members of Congress from Illinois have a few questions for Gov. Pat Quinn about possibly using a state prison to house Guantanamo Bay detainees.

On his recent trip to Asia, President Obama found China, Japan and South Korea - like many nations these days - in no mood to hear more American lectures.

Posted on Nov 19, 2009 by James Q. Lynch . The Obama administration is considering buying the Thomson Correctional Facility in rural northwestern Illinois, about 15 miles northeast of Clinton, Iowa, to house terrorism suspects from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

In fact, a jury spared the lives of two Osama bin Laden followers a month after Sept.

Details about the treatment of Binyam Mohamed, the former Guantanamo detainee, should be released because it is not "secret intelligence," the High Court has ruled.

President Barack Obama has answered questions submitted by a celebrated Cuban blogger, saying he isn't interested in "talking for the sake of talking" with Raul Castro and indicating he won't visit the island until the communist government changes its ways.

Gov. Pat Quinn says a deal to sell a prison in northwestern Illinois to the federal government to house Guantanamo Bay detainees "probably'' will happen.

I get where President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder are coming from. They think that if we change our way of life, the terrorists will have won.

With nearly 4,000 swine flu deaths so far in the U.S. Congress wants to know, are terror suspects getting the vaccine first, before students, pregnant women, and sick Americans? A key health official did a 180 when pressed on that Wednesday.

A body has been recovered from the remains of a Navy training aircraft that went down in the Gulf of Mexico near Matagorda Island three weeks ago.

The rights of a Guantanamo detainee facing trial in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa were not violated when the military took away his uniformed lawyers, a judge ruled Wednesday.

British spies can keep some evidence secret from former Guantanamo prisoners who are suing the government for alleged complicity in their detention, a British judge ruled Wednesday, the first volley in a legal battle to expose what role Britain played in the men's imprisonment.

Eric Holder is defending his decision to put the professed Sept. 11 mastermind on trial in New York a ' and urging critics of the plan not to cower in the face of terrorists.

A Republican congressman from Illinois says his comment that suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay follow a "savage religion" has been misinterpreted.

Federal officials visited a prison in northwest Illinois Monday that the government might buy to house Guantanamo Bay detainees.

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin says criticisms of a proposal to use an Illinois prison to house Guantanamo Bay detainees is pure political strategy and fearmongering.

The Israeli army punished six soldiers Tuesday for protesting the army's demolition of structures at an unauthorized settler outpost in the West Bank, after other troops refused to take part in the operation.

Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias is joining many other Democrats in backing the idea of housing terrorism suspects at an Illinois prison.

Remember when Obama threw David Paterson under the bus in an attempt to push the governor out of his bid for re-election? Well, Governor Paterson isn't taking it lying down.

Mohammed, the Al Qaeda big shot involved in planning the 9/11 atrocity, is perhaps the biggest terrorist ever captured by America.

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin says if a prison in northwest Illinois is used to house Guantanamo Bay detainees it would be the safest prison in America.

BRITISH soldiers forced an Iraqi detainee to wear an orange jump suit and told him that he was to be executed at the US-run Guantanamo Bay camp, according to allegations in a report Monday.

Let me say up front, I don't think President Obama is to blame for the Fort Hood shootings , and I don't think it's fair to say otherwise.

Washington Republicans appear united in their opposition to trying five Sept. 11 suspects in New York.

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is backing a proposal to sell one of the state's prison to the federal government to house Guantanamo Bay detainees.

About 250 supporters of Omar Khadr sang songs, gave cheering speeches and marched through downtown Edmonton in the hopes their Sunday rally will send a message to the federal government to bring Khadr home to Canada.

Case summaries and excerpts from the opinions by U.S. District Court judges for the 30 terrorism detainees ordered released from the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison and the eight denied release since late 2008: ORDERING RELEASE 2008 --Oct. 9, Judge Ricardo Urbina ordered the release into the United States of 17 Guantanamo detainees from a Muslim ...

In courtrooms barred to the public, dozens of terror suspects are pleading for their freedom from the Guantanamo Bay prison, sometimes even testifying on their own behalf by video from the U.S. naval base in Cuba.

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announcing on Friday that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed would be prosecuted in federal court in New York.

The cloud in the silver lining of Eric Holder's announcement that five 9/11 terror suspects will be tried in civilian federal court instead of military commissions is that the Attorney General plans to seek the death penalty .

Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey said today that it is highly likely that terrorists will attack New York City as a consequence of the Obama administration's decision to send five alleged Sept.

When Illinois built the $145 Thomson Correctional Center the complex was promised to bring jobs and an economic boost to the area around Thomson, Illinois.

A look at numbers for detainees past and present at the detention center that opened in 2002 at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: - Currently held at Guantanamo: 215.

Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and 4 other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be brought to trial in a civilian federal courthouse in New York, near the site of the devastating 2001 terror attacks.

Speaking during a news conference Friday after announcing [JURIST report] that five 9/11 [JURIST news archive] conspirators will be tried in US federal court, Holder responded [transcript] to a question on Khadr by saying, "[w]ell, we'll look at the Khadr matter.

Prosecutors will push for the death penalty in the New York trials of five alleged September 11 plotters including the self-proclaimed mastermind of the attack, the US administration said.

Some New Yorkers are angry that accused plotters of the September 11, 2001 attacks will be tried in a court near where the World Trade Center once stood, while others are relieved that justice may soon be served.

Ten high-profile Guantanamo Bay detainees are being transferred to face justice in the United States.

In a decade-long journey, the Tunisian went from drug pusher on the streets of Milan to Islamic militant trained in Afghanistan to kill Americans to potential key witness against Guantanamo Bay detainees.

Capt. Aaron Schnetzler has taken over as commander of the Marine Aviation Training Support Squadron One at Naval Air Station Meridian.

Will 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other terror suspects be sent to NY for trial? The Justice Department is expected to announce whether that will happen by Monday.

Share + Nov 12, 2009 11:07 am US/Eastern No clowning around Ronald McDonald is looking to fill a managerial position at a Mickey D's in Cuba, reports CBS station WFOR-TV. The ad for an assistant manager for a McDonalds franchise in Guantanamo recently popped up on the McVirgina.com website.

President Barack Obama's decision to close the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, military prison by Jan.

A man from Tajikistan seeking his freedom from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is challenging a practice among federal judges here who are short-circuiting the cases of some long-time detainees.

The Harper government is warning the Supreme Court of Canada against becoming the first court in the western world to declare that a government has a legal duty to protect its citizens detained abroad.

APPLETON - Paz Guidote felt sure that moments separated her family from its home and a Japanese military prison cell.

Posted by Michelle Malkin on Nov 11th, 2009 and filed under FrontPage . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 . You can leave a response or trackback to this entry The violence at Fort Hood, President Obama told mourners on Tuesday, was "incomprehensible." The "twisted logic that led to the tragedy," he reiterated, may be ...

Out of work and willing to relocate? McDonald's is advertising for an assistant manager for its sole franchise in Cuba - serving up burgers and fries that sometimes feed detainees at the prison camps at Guantanamo Bay.

A Pentagon source says Defense Department officials weren't aware the Fort Hood shooting suspect may have been found to had contact with any "Muslim extremists." But a Defense Department investigator on a terrorism task force concluded that communications Maj.

The Pentagon says a small shipment of swine flu vaccine has arrived at the Guantanamo Bay military prison.

In this file photo taken Tuesday, July 7, 2009, Uighur women grab a police officer as they protest in front of journalists visiting the area in Urumqi, China.

It's a long way from the tiny home on Sixth Street in Ontario to Kandahar, Afghanistan.

The Senate on Thursday rejected a measure that would have required prisoners charged with involvement in the September 11 attacks to stand trial in a military court rather than a criminal court.

Posted By Newperson 5 hours, 15 minutes ago in Political News > Within the next two weeks the Obama administration will begin to make public the names of detainees in Guantanamo Bay whom federal prosecutors plan on trying in U.S. civilian courts and which ones they will send to a military commission.

On that unusually balmy Chicago night a year ago, the candidate who campaigned on what he called the "fierce urgency of now" became the president-elect who needed time.

The state board responsible for licensing - and disciplining - psychologists in Louisiana is accused of turning a blind eye to serious allegations of abuse against one of its members, including complicity in beatings, religious and sexual humiliation, rape threats and painful body positions during his service as a senior advisor on interrogations ...

China lashed out at the United States on Monday after the Obama administration sent six Uighur Chinese detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay to the Pacific island nation of Palau.

Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn are demanding assurances that detainees at the Guantanamo Bay terrorist prison won't receive the swine flu vaccine until all 159 million Americans at elevated risk have access to a vaccination.

Parts of the Gulf Coast could be feeling the effects of Hurricane Ida in the next 36 hours.

The Army's chief of staff says the Army is taking a hard look at itself to make certain that something like the Fort Hood rampage doesn't happen again.

U.S. officials are reviewing which Guantanamo Bay detainees could face trial in American courts and the first indications could come next week, the U.S. attorney general said Sunday.

The United States and the European Union have agreed to treat cybersecurity , cyber crime and data protection as international issues, cooperatively developing polices based on shared values.

The White House says detainees at Guantanamo Bay are not yet receiving vaccinations against the swine flu.

Noam Chomsky is the closest thing in the English-speaking world to an intellectual superstar.

After an emotional debate over how to keep Americans safe, the Senate Thursday narrowly defeated an effort to prevent civilian trials in U.S. courts for the accused planners of the 9/11 attacks.

A former prisoner, who was kept behind bars at the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay for six years, has vowed to lodge a criminal case against former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf for arresting him illegally.

A Kuwaiti Airways engineer whom the U.S. military has accused of being a key aide to Osama bin Laden has been moved to the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention center's minimum-security wing that's reserved for prisoners slated to be released.

President Obama likes to preen himself on his supposed moral superiority to his predecessor.

Standish Maximum Correctional Facility has closed and it's still uncertain whether it will reopen to house detainees from Guantanamo Bay.

Exiled Chinese Muslim leader Rebiya Kadeer will travel to Palau as soon as next week to visit six fellow Uygurs released from Guantanamo Bay, a spokesman for the men said on Friday.

WASHINGTON: A human rights group is calling on the United States to develop a new detention policy with Kabul for a US military prison in Afghanistan dubbed the a oeAfghan Guantanamoa .

The Democratic-controlled Senate on Thursday turned back a GOP-led effort to bar Sept.

Bret Travis Miller. Coast Guard crews continued to search for Lt. John Joseph Houston, who also was in the T-34C training plane that went missing last week.

A Massachusetts town has voted in favor of inviting two men detained at Guantanamo Bay military prison to resettle in the community, if they are ultimately cleared of terrorism ties and released.

A panel at the University of Michigan Law School is probing the future of U.S. security as the clock ticks down for the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

Perry County's representative in Congress, Jo Ann Emerson said that plans to make the H1N1 flu shot available to detainees at the Guantanamo Bay naval base will put suspected terrorists ahead of American citizens.

Reports that South Carolina may get detainees when Guantanomo Bay is shut down has roiled the political debate in South Carolina's governor's race.

Lt. Governor Andre Bauer plans to ask the state's Attorney General to take legal action to block the transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees to Charleston.

One year after the exuberant optimism that accompanied Barack Obama 's historic election, little has changed except the nation's mood.

A Guantanamo prisoner who has been on hunger strike for more than four years is in critical danger from malnutrition, his lawyers said Tuesday.

Six Chinese Muslim Uygurs, released on the weekend after nearly eight years locked up at Guantanamo Bay, spent their first day of freedom on Monday shopping in the Palau capital Koror.

Angela Merkel, the first leader of reunited Germany to grow up under communist rule, has worked as chancellor to warm up ties with the United States - a country she couldn't travel to until she was in her mid-30s. The former East German physicist, also the first woman to lead her country, restored cordiality to ties strained over the Iraq war while ...

Amid shortages in the U.S., the announced plan to vaccinate Guantanamo Bay detainees against swine flu angered many.

The defense secretary and attorney general are opposing an attempt to prohibit Guantanamo detainees from having civilian trials in the United States.

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It's been a year since a healthy majority of American voters elected Barack Obama to change the world.

The DOJ said the men had been cleared for release under the Bush administration, as they were no longer considered unlawful enemy combatants [10 USC 948a text; JURIST news archive ]. The men had also been subject to review by the Joint Task Force [official website] for Guantanamo detainees, and were approved for release.

The U.S. Navy has identified two instructor pilots who have been missing since their plane disappeared Wednesday off the Texas coast.

'It is very, very tough to be a Democrat on Fox,' says Democratic direct-mail consultant Liz Chadderdon, a regular on the network.

Six former Guantanamo Bay detainees brought to Palau for resettlement have received a warm official welcome, but a plan to deport Bangladeshi workers could halve this Pacific Island nation's already-tiny Muslim community, making integration harder.

When he cast his ballot for Barack Obama last Nov. 4, Lance Orchid never thought that -- less than a year later -- he would join a campaign questioning the new U.S. president's leadership.

With the possibility of finding survivors all but gone and the ocean search shifted from a rescue effort to a recovery mission, focus fell Monday on what caused a Marine Corps helicopter and U.S. Coast Guard plane to collide over the Pacific.

Sunday, November 01, 2009 at 12:33 a.m. The Standish Maximum Correctional Facility officially closed Saturday, after months of protest.A Workers couldn't convince lawmakers to save their jobs.A Many say they dona t know where they will go next.A The prison is the largest employer in the city.

Guantanamo Bay SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico a ' Terrorism suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base will soon get swine flu vaccines, despite complaints that American civilians should have priority, a military spokesman said Sunday.

Five men who allege they were tortured after a Boeing subsidiary delivered them to secret CIA interrogation sites will have to persuade a full panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that their case should go to trial despite administration claims that it involves state secrets.