Secrecy likely to engulf Guantánamo testimony of alleged USS Cole bomber
The most interesting and significant testimony at the war court so far — a Saudi captive’s account of how CIA agents interrogated him while shackled in secret custody — is likely to be unseen and unheard by the public when pre-trial hearings reconvene in the USS Cole case at Guantánamo next month. | 03/27/12 16:47:17 By - Carol Rosenberg
Navy appoints next commander of Guantánamo prison camps
The Navy has chosen a Key West-based admiral, a helicopter pilot who ran Hurricane Katrina air relief operations, to take over as the next commander of the detention center at Guantánamo. | 03/02/12 18:45:50 By - Carol Rosenberg
Guantánamo detainees did not see al Qaida magazine, prison commander says
At no time did a copy of al Qaida's fiery Inspire magazine reach a captive or a cell at the prison camps, the detention commander said in a press conference Wednesday night, six weeks after a Navy prosecutor made headlines by informing the chief Guantánamo judge that it had. | 03/01/12 06:22:11 By - Carol Rosenberg
Majid Khan, U.S.-educated al Qaida foot soldier, admits to war crimes, turns government witness
Majid Khan, a 1999 Maryland high school graduate who claims he was kidnapped by the CIA and tortured, walked into court in a suit and tie Wednesday and confessed to serving as a foot soldier for al Qaida. He walked out three hours later, taken back to a prison cell as a convicted terrorist turned government witness. | 02/29/12 13:41:36 By - Carol Rosenberg
$744,000 buys cooperative Guantánamo captives a new soccer field
The military unveiled a new $744,000 soccer field on Tuesday, a dusty enclosure with two-toned gravel and fences topped by barbed wire — all designed as a quality of life improvement for cooperative captives. | 02/28/12 18:03:43 By - Carol Rosenberg
Guantánamo plea deal unveils new trial strategy
When a suburban Baltimore high school graduate steps out of the shadows of CIA detention this week to admit to serving the senior leadership of al Qaida, the Obama administration will be unveiling its latest strategy toward an endgame. | 02/27/12 18:34:19 By - Carol Rosenberg
Alleged 9/11 facilitator makes new bid to avert death penalty trial in Guantanamo
Lawyers for a Pakistani man accused of wiring money used in the Sept. 11 attacks argued in a memo Friday that, because the alleged terrorist was accused of a lesser role in the terror attacks, he should not face the possibility of a death penalty. | 02/17/12 19:08:50 By - Carol Rosenberg
Pentagon advances case against Guantánamo captive Khan
A senior Pentagon official approved terror charges Wednesday against a U.S. high school graduate accused of conspiring with confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed — a swift turnaround that sets the stage for a new war court case at Guantánamo within the month. | 02/15/12 19:21:08 By - Carol Rosenberg
Guantanamo judge won't subpoena Yemen's Saleh
A military judge has rejected a Guantánamo captive’s request to have his lawyers question Yemeni leader Ali Abdullah Saleh in New York about the investigation of al Qaida’s bombing of the USS Cole, a lawyer said Tuesday. | 02/15/12 07:15:26 By - Carol Rosenberg
Pentagon charges former U.S. resident in terror plot
The Pentagon’s war crimes prosecutor proposes to put a graduate of a suburban Baltimore high school now detained at Guantánamo on trial for attempting to kill Pakistan’s president and conspiring to blow up gas stations. | 02/15/12 07:12:49 By - Carol Rosenberg
The Greening of Guántanamo
Solar-powered lights serve as sentries where U.S. Marines once faced-off along the Cuban frontier. A team of Navy cops now rides bikes rather than gas-guzzling patrol cars in the searing Caribbean sunshine at Guantanamo | 02/08/12 17:36:02 By - Carol Rosenberg
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. | 02/08/12 13:54:24 By - Carol Rosenberg
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. | 02/03/12 18:07:34 By - Carol Rosenberg
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. | 02/02/12 07:19:25 By - Carol Rosenberg
Copy of al Qaida magazine 'Inspire' found at Guantanamo
A copy of Al Qaida's fiery magazine Inspire somehow got inside the prison camps at Guantánamo, a prosecutor disclosed at the war court Wednesday. | 01/18/12 15:28:19 By - Carol Rosenberg
Guantánamo commander: Contractors read inmate lawyers' mail
In unprecedented war court testimony, the prison camps’ commander on Tuesday defended a three-tier system of classifying lawyers’ mail to alleged terrorists that sparked a defense lawyer’s boycott and is threatening to stall future war crimes trials. | 01/17/12 20:21:10 By - Carol Rosenberg
Report: French judge wants to probe Guantanamo torture claims
A French judge is seeking U.S. permission to visit the prison camps here to investigate claims by former French inmates that they were tortured. The request is the third indication that international authorities have renewed their interest in the legality of Bush-era policies on the treatment of war-on-terror captives. | 01/17/12 14:09:41 By - Carol Rosenberg
Military lawyers blast Guantanamo mail search as violating rights, ethics
Military lawyers for Guantanamo detainees who could someday be put to death are accusing the new prison commander of censoring protected attorney-client documents, raising a new legal controversy that spotlights ongoing concern about the fairness of possible military trials. | 01/15/12 18:50:36 By - Carol Rosenberg
Protesters gather to mark Guantanamo anniversary
Chants of "Guantanamo has got to go" echoed down Pennsylvania Avenue on Wednesday as a crowd of rain-dampened protesters marked the 10th anniversary of the arrival of the first 20 detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. | 01/11/12 19:16:00 By - Emily Seagrave Kennedy
What's ahead for Guantanamo camps in new decade?
Ten years ago, U.S. troops marched 20 men in chains off a military cargo plane at Guantanamo Bay to launch America’s war-on-terror experiment in offshore detention and justice. Now, the prison camps enter their second decade with death penalty tribunals on the horizon and President Barack Obama still struggling to find a formula for closure. | 01/10/12 21:21:00 By - Carol Rosenberg
Congress, rules keep Obama from closing Guantanamo Bay
The last two prisoners to leave the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay were dead. On February 1, Awal Gul, a 48-year-old Afghan, collapsed in the shower and died of an apparent heart attack after working out on an exercise machine. Then, at dawn one morning in May, Haji Nassim, a 37-year-old man also from Afghanistan, was found hanging from bed linen in a prison camp recreation yard. | 01/09/12 07:05:00 By - Carol Rosenberg
Secret Guantanamo cellblock cost about $700,000
A once-secret Guantánamo cellblock now used to punish captives was built in November 2007 for $690,000 from a crude, then 5-year-old temporary prison camp design. | 01/04/12 06:59:00 By - Carol Rosenberg
Supreme Court will consider health care law challenge in 2012
The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider a challenge to the Obama administration's health care law next year, setting the stage for a legal and political blockbuster. | 11/14/11 10:45:20 By - Michael Doyle and David Lightman
Guantanamo trial for Cole bombing suspect delayed for a year
The reputed mastermind of the USS Cole bombing made his first appearance in before a U.S. military commission judge Wednesday, the first time Abd al Rahim al Nashiri had been seen in public since he was arrested in 2002 and spiritied into a series of secret CIA prisons. | 11/09/11 17:42:42 By - Carol Rosenberg
Alleged USS Cole bomber Nashiri faces Guantanamo war court
An alleged al Qaida chieftain facing a death-penalty trial was brought before an Army judge at Camp Justice on Wednesday, his first ever court date nine years after CIA agents captured him in the Arabian Gulf region and spirited him off to waterboarding and other secret interrogation techniques. | 11/09/11 11:58:39 By - Carol Rosenberg
Judge opens remote Guantanamo war court viewing site to 'general public'
Hours ahead of the arraignment of an alleged al-Qaida chieftain, a military judge on Tuesday ordered the Defense Department to admit dozens of members of the “general public” to the first-ever broadcast of a Guantánamo terror tribunal on U.S. soil. Wednesday’s hearing was expected to be quick, and historic. | 11/09/11 07:01:01 By - Carol Rosenberg
Pentagon publishes Guantanamo war court procedures
The Pentagon on Monday published its long awaited regulations for military commissions, the Obama administration era handbook for how to do a war crimes trial, including a sample prosecution that charged a captive with murder as well as “pillaging” by stealing a Rolex watch, six goats and $20 American. | 11/08/11 06:58:59 By - Carol Rosenberg
After years of secrecy, Pentagon seeks order to let public view hearing for accused Cole bomber
Pentagon prosecutors have filed a sealed motion with the Guantánamo war court that apparently proposes allowing the general public for the first time to watch military proceedings against an accused al Qaida terrorist. | 11/05/11 15:56:13 By - Carol Rosenberg
Prosecutor: Guantánamo court can’t free innocent captive
The U.S. military tribunal for the USS Cole bombing suspect has no power to free a captive found innocent of war crimes but shouldn’t be told the terror suspect could be held for life anyway, Pentagon prosecutors said in a court document made public Wednesday. | 11/02/11 19:01:29 By - Carol Rosenberg
Defenders want accused Cole bomber's jury told if acquittal equals freedom
In the war on terror detention system the Bush and Obama administrations built, a captive can be executed if he¡¯s convicted of a capital crime and kept forever if he¡¯s acquitted. And defense attorneys for the next alleged terrorist to be tried at Guant¨¢namo want jurors told this from the start. Lawyers for Saudi-born captive Abd al Rahim al Nashiri made the request of the military commissions chief judge, Army Col. James Pohl, in a motion filed last week. The Pentagon unsealed it, uncensored, late Monday. | 10/25/11 16:34:55 By - Carol Rosenberg
Guantánamo Inc.? Oops
Guantánamo Inc? Not so fast. In the Pentagon’s zeal to rebrand its beleaguered war court in southeast Cuba, the lawyers who pioneered a nearly $500,000 new website went too far. They declared it copyrighted. | 10/12/11 18:19:31 By - Carol Rosenberg
Judge resets USS Cole bombing case to Nov. 9
The chief war court judge Thursday delayed until Nov. 9 the Guantánamo Bay arraignment of a Saudi-born captive accused of orchestrating the 2000 attack on the Navy warship USS Cole off Yemen that killed 17 American sailors. | 10/06/11 18:00:07 By - Carol Rosenberg
Transparency a goal not yet reached by Pentagon's new war court website
The website was unveiled last month to rehabilitate the reputation of the Guantanamo war court. So far, it's a hodgepodge of secrecy. But a review of the content has found that it pointedly leaves out some of the key controversies that have bedeviled the war crimes trials, from allegations of torture to a comparison of the Seminole Indian tribe to al Qaida. | 10/05/11 19:44:35 By - Carol Rosenberg
No 9/11 trial this year at Guantánamo
The trial of five Guantánamo captives accused of the Sept. 11 mass murder cannot begin until next year at the earliest under a timetable set out Monday by the legal authority in charge of the war court. | 10/03/11 18:30:22 By - Carol Rosenberg
Pentagon announces trial of alleged Cole mastermind on new Guantanamo website
Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, 46, a former Saudi millionaire, faces the death penalty in al Qaida’s suicide bombing of a U.S. Navy warship in a Yemen port a decade ago. The announcement came on a new website that news organizations had requested. | 09/28/11 17:11:31 By - Carol Rosenberg
Pentagon launches war court website
The Pentagon on Wednesday morning went live with a new, slicker interactive military commissions website, then used it to announce the first death penalty war crimes prosecution of the Obama administration. | 09/28/11 11:53:17 By - Carol Rosenberg
Report: Pentagon to beam war crimes trials to US soil
The Obama administration’s handpicked choice to run prosecutions at the Guantánamo war crimes court is pledging a new era of transparency from the remote base, complete with near simultaneous transmissions of the proceedings to victims and reporters on U.S. soil. | 09/26/11 19:52:26 By - Carol Rosenberg
Pentagon plans to transmit Guantanamo trials to U.S. points
The Obama administration’s choice to run prosecutions at the Guantanamo war crimes court is pledging a new era of transparency from the remote base, including the nearly simultaneous broadcast of the proceedings to locations in the United States where reporters and families of victims would be able to view them. | 09/25/11 19:44:28 By - Carol Rosenberg
Stinky Guantanamo prison camp standoff over
The waste war is over — for now. War on terror captives are no longer smearing their cells with feces in a stomach-wrenching power struggle with the guards at the maximum security Camp 5 lockup on this remote navy base. | 09/21/11 15:55:05 By - Carol Rosenberg
Admiral prepares Guantanamo for 9/11 tribunals
In the few weeks since Rear Adm. David B. Woods took charge At Guantanamo Bay, he has looked in on the men accused of killing two of his Naval Academy classmates, walked the camps where President Barack Obama’s closure order has faded in the Caribbean sun and presided over a somber ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of America’s 21st Century Day of Infamy. | 09/16/11 06:50:30 By - Carol Rosenberg
At Guantanamo, Woods quietly takes command
The Pentagon has quietly installed a Navy aviator who lost classmates in the 9/11 attacks as the 11th commander of its Guantánamo detention center in Cuba. | 08/29/11 06:54:29 By - Carol Rosenberg
With 9/11 trials looming, Guantanamo makes a practice run
Court was abruptly recessed when a captive tried to make a speech. Guantánamo guards found a suspicious package and ordered an evacuation. Translators struggled to keep pace with a lawyer reciting from a transcript of the Omar Khadr “child soldier” trial. All of it was scripted, a string of travails bedeviling the war court while Tropical Storm Emily bore down on the U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba last week | 08/12/11 17:00:29 By - Carol Rosenberg
Navy pilot named Guantanamo's commander
The Pentagon on Wednesday named Rear Adm. David B. Woods, a pilot now working on Navy policy and strategy, as the 11th commander of its detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. | 08/10/11 18:16:02 By - Carol Rosenberg
Guantanamo prisoners face Ramadan fasting
With the vast majority of the prisoners at Guantánamo now marking their 10th Ramadan in a row behind the razor wire, the military is providing food around the clock for both the faithful honoring the dawn-to-dusk fast and those Muslim captives who choose to ignore it. | 08/05/11 15:49:35 By - Carol Rosenberg
USS Cole bombing case called 'too tainted' for death penalty trial
The military’s case against a former Saudi millionaire accused of masterminding the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole is tainted by delay, torture and destruction of evidence, lawyers argued Friday in a bid to spare the Guantánamo captive a death penalty trial. | 07/18/11 07:06:47 By - Carol Rosenberg
Navy photographer in Guantanamo case settles for probation
A U.S. military veteran of the Iraq surge and Guantánamo averted a federal passport fraud trial on Tuesday by settling for probation in a deal that lets him stay in the United States for now and perhaps continue Navy service. | 07/12/11 12:09:39 By - Carol Rosenberg
Navy Guantanamo photographer freed pending trial
A federal magistrate ordered a veteran U.S. military combat photographer released from a federal detention center Friday, on condition he returns to court for next week’s federal passport fraud trial. | 07/08/11 18:43:03 By - Carol Rosenberg
EU still supports resettling Guantánamo detainees
Europe is still open to resettling Guantánamo detainees on a case by case basis despite U.S. domestic politics that are thwarting President Barack Obama’s closure ambitions, the European Union Ambassador to the United States said Wednesday. | 07/06/11 17:56:09 By - Carol Rosenberg
Florida Rep. Wilson steps in for jailed Navy photographer
A South Florida congresswoman is going to bat for a U.S. military war veteran from her district who is in a Miami lockup on a passport fraud charge and fears deportation to his mother’s native Bahamas. | 07/01/11 12:48:11 By - Carol Rosenberg
Navy photographer spurns deal, will spend July 4 in jail
A U.S. military veteran of Iraq and Guantánamo on Friday spurned a government offer of pre-trial probation and instead faced the prospect of the Fourth of July in a Miami lockup while awaiting a federal passport fraud trial later this month. Navy Reserves Petty Officer 2nd Class Elisha Leo Dawkins, 26, has been confined to the downtown federal detention center since soon after he returned from the Guantánamo detention center earlier this year. | 07/01/11 19:34:04 By - Carol Rosenberg
Deal could help Navy photographer of Guantanamo detainees avoid trial
A federal judge disclosed Tuesday that the U.S. Attorney’s office has made a secret offer to resolve the curious passport prosecution of a Miami combat veteran who photographed detainees at Guantánamo and is now a detainee himself. U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga revealed the offer of “pretrial diversion” without elaboration in a conference that set a July 12 trial date for Navy Reserves Petty Officer Elisha Dawkins, 26. | 06/28/11 22:22:10 By - Carol Rosenberg
Latest Guantánamo prison camp suicide was 'indefinite detainee'
An Afghan man who was found hanging from a bedsheet at Guantánamo last month was held by the Pentagon as an "indefinite detainee" — an Obama administration designation originally conferred on 48 captives at the prison camps in Cuba. | 06/28/11 12:54:32 By - Carol Rosenberg
Guantánamo Navy photographer in Miami lock-up
A Miami veteran of U.S. service in Iraq, who took some of the military’s most intimate photos of captives in the prison camps at Guantánamo as a combat photographer, was in a detention center Thursday, facing a federal fraud trial. | 06/23/11 20:05:51 By - Carol Rosenberg
Pentagon names new Guantanamo war crimes prosecutor
The Pentagon on Thursday named a Harvard Law trained career Army general as the chief war crimes prosecutor at Guantánamo, which has two major death penalty prosecutions in the pipeline, notably the 9/11 mass murder trial of five former CIA captives charged as co-conspirators. | 06/23/11 21:13:31 By - Carol Rosenberg
Another former Guantanamo detainee named to terrorist list
The State Department Thursday added a freed Guantánamo detainee to its list of government-sanctioned terrorists, saying the Saudi Arabian soldier is now a fundraiser for the Yemeni offshoot Al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula. | 06/17/11 06:50:37 By - Carol Rosenberg
Guantanamo captives ‘weaponize’ bodily fluids
When a fiddle player and her band toured the prison camps at Guantánamo recently, guards told of a new devious and disturbing tactic confronting them. A captive on a hunger strike had been jamming something foul up his nose to contaminate the pathway for medical staff who feed him a nutritional shake twice a day. | 06/16/11 17:12:12 By - Carol Rosenberg
Europeans ask U.S. not to seek death penalty in Cole bombing
The European Parliament, long a foe of the death penalty, urged the U.S. Thursday to abandon plans to seek the death penalty for a Saudi-born captive accused of orchestrating the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole. | 06/09/11 19:18:00 By - Carol Rosenberg
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