Guantanamo

State Department: Guantánamo lawyers can’t question Yemeni leader

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is in the United States with full diplomatic immunity, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s legal advisor has written the Pentagon, and should not be compelled to provide sworn testimony for the Guantánamo war court. » read more

Posted on Wed, February 8, 2012

Cuban migrants at Guantanamo base 'broke rules,' face restrictions

Nearly three dozen Cuban asylum seekers were confined to the Leeward side of the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Tuesday, no longer able to send packages to family across the minefield in a security crackdown at the U.S. migrant center at the base in southeast Cuba. » read more

Posted on Tue, February 7, 2012

Pentagon won’t slow 9/11 death penalty filings

A senior Pentagon official on Friday refused to delay a pre-arraignment phase in the prosecution of five Guantánamo captives accused of conspiring in the Sept. 11 attacks. » read more

Posted on Fri, February 3, 2012

Defenders seek another 9/11 trial delay

Lawyers for the accused 9/11 plotters on Thursday sought to delay until this summer filing memos on why the terror tribunal should not go forward as a capital case. » read more

Posted on Thu, February 2, 2012

GOP assails plan to transfer 'high level' Guantanamo detainees

Members of Congress are reacting sharply to a plan being considered by the White House to transfer abroad five of the most dangerous prisoners from Guantanamo Bay as a gesture to the Taliban in advance of Afghanistan peace talks. » read more

Posted on Thu, February 2, 2012

Alleged al Qaida bomber's lawyer wants to question Yemen's Saleh

Guantánamo defense lawyers for an alleged al Qaida bomber asked an Army judge on Tuesday to order Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to undergo war court questioning at a New York hospital. » read more

Posted on Thu, February 2, 2012

SPECIAL REPORT: BEYOND THE LAW

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  • An eight-month McClatchy investigation of the detention system created after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks found that the U.S. imprisoned innocent men, subjected them to abuse, stripped them of their legal rights and allowed Islamic militants to turn the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba into a school for jihad.

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