Tag: Guantanamo

Long-delayed 9/11 case begins at Guantanamo

Long-delayed efforts to try self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four Al-Qaeda co-defendants finally got under way Monday with a pre-trial hearing at...

Bin Laden’s ex-cook freed from Guantanamo: Sudan

The former cook of slain Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden returned to his native Sudan early Wednesday, the foreign ministry said, after his release...

‘Sesame Street’ songs allegedly used in Guantanamo Bay interrogations

A new documentary alleges that detainees at Guantanamo Bay were "tortured" by being forced to listen to songs from Sesame Street for days on...

Guantanamo: US denies abuse in ‘Sesame Street’ row

The Pentagon on Thursday insisted that it has not abused prisoners at Guantanamo Bay after a documentary said US forces a decade ago blared...

Next 9/11 Guantanamo hearing postponed to August 8

The next preliminary hearing for five men accused in the September 11 terror strike on US targets, which was scheduled for June 12, has...

Guantanamo tribunal weighs separate 9/11 trials

A special US military tribunal at Guantanamo is weighing whether to hold separate trials for five accused plotters of the September 11 attacks, a...

Chaotic start to Guantanamo arraignment of 9/11 suspects

The arraignment of five Guantanamo prisoners accused of plotting the September 11 2001 attacks got off to a rocky start on Saturday when the...

Guantanamo detainee contests court’s secrecy rule

An accused September 11 conspirator filed a motion Thursday challenging a rule that keeps statements by the Guantanamo detainees secret, his lawyer said. Attorney James...

Plea deal for Pakistani at Guantanamo

A Pakistani held at Guantanamo Bay has reached a plea agreement with US prosecutors that could see him testifying at the trials of accused...

Attorneys try to save 9/11 detainee from death penalty

The nephew of the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks does not deserve the death penalty, his attorneys argue in court documents filed...

US captive charged with trying to kill Musharraf

U.S. prosecutors in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals filed charges on Tuesday against a Pakistani man who grew up outside Baltimore, alleging he plotted...

US agrees to transfer important Taliban from Guantanamo

The United States agreed on Sunday to transfer important Taliban figures from Guantanamo Bay to Qatar, The New York Times said in a report....

Ten years on, Guantanamo still casts long shadow

Ten years ago the world was shocked by images of terror suspects locked in cages on a remote US base in Cuba. Today 171...

Obama to lift freeze on new Guantanamo trials

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama lifted a ban Monday on new military trials for Guantanamo Bay terror suspects, apparently conceding that the camp he has vowed to close will not be emptied any time soon.
Obama also issued new guidelines to ensure humane and lawful treatment of suspects deemed too dangerous to release, but officials insisted he was still determined to shutter the controversial "war on terror" facility in Cuba.
They said the president still maintained that

Obama, in blow to closing Guantanamo, signs law

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama, in a setback to hopes for the quick closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison, reluctantly signed a bill on Friday barring suspects held there from being brought to the United States for trial.
Making plain he would fight to repeal language in the law obstructing civilian US trials for Guantanamo terrorism suspects, Obama said he was left with no choice but to sign the defense authorization act for fiscal 2011.
"Despite my strong objection

Rights groups urge Spain to probe Guantanamo boss

MADRID - Human rights groups on Friday said they have asked a Spanish judge to subpoena the former US commander of the Guantanamo detention camp to explain his alleged role in the torture of detainees.
The US-based Center for Constitutional Rights and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights asked a judge probing alleged torture at the US naval base in Cuba to question Major General Geoffrey Miller, who ran the centre from November 2002 until April 2004.

Punish the Canadian severely, Guantanamo court urged

GUANTANAMO BAY: A prosecutor urged a US war crimes tribunal on Saturday to sentence a young Canadian and admitted al Qaeda murderer to 25 more years in prison and said anything less would give license to terrorists.
A military defense lawyer said defendant Omar Khadr, who was captured in a firefight in Afghanistan at age 15, had abandoned the jihadist teachings of his al Qaeda financier father, apologized to his victims and accepted responsibility for his actions.
He called