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Star Chamber at Guantanamo
J. Wells Dixon [attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative]: "In the last week, the government has released unclassified excerpts of Combatant Status Review Tribunal proceedings for four men who were transfer (More) |
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Guantanamo detainee says he helped bomb USS Cole, Kenya US embassy
The US Department of Defense reported Monday that Guantanamo detainee Walid Muhammad Salih bin Attash admitted to collaborating on the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Kenya and the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole [Wikipedia backgrounder; US DOD inq (More) |
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Militant convicted of Pearl killing to rely on KSM Guantanamo confession on appeal
British-born Islamic militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh , who was sentenced to death in July 2002 for kidnapping and murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl [DPF profile; JURIST news archive], will use a Guantanamo Bay detainee's conf (More) |
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Hicks sedated before being told of new charges: military lawyer
The US military lawyer for Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks said Monday that his client was sedated for 24 hours last month before being told about new charges against him. Maj. Michael Mori said Hicks was given a drug to ease his co (More) |
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Hicks seeks injunction to delay Guantanamo trial
Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks has filed for an injunction to delay his military trial currently scheduled to start March 20 . Maj. Michael Mori, Hicks' Pentagon-appointed lawyer, said Saturday that Hicks' defense team asked (More) |
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Senators say US must probe claims that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was tortured
US senators Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) , both of whom watched last weekend's Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) hearing at Guantanamo Bay for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed , insisted in a joint statement Friday that his cl (More) |
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed claims Pearl execution in revised Gitmo transcript
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed testified Saturday at a military status hearing at Guantanamo Bay that he personally "decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew, Daniel Pearl, in Karachi," according to a statement initial (More) |
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True Confessions? The Amazing Tale of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony D'Amato of Northwestern University School of Law says the sweeping Guantanamo "confessions" of al Qaeda leader Khalid Shaikh Mohammed rival the scope of those made in the Stalinist purge trials of the 1930 (More) |
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California city council endorses Rumsfeld war crimes prosecution
The Berkeley, California city council voted Tuesday to support the criminal complaint [introduction in English, PDF; full complaint text in German, part one and part two, PDF] filed in Germany against former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and (More) |
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed admits planning 9/11 at Guantanamo hearing
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed , long thought to be the strategist behind the Sept.11, 2001 attacks, confessed to masterminding the 9/11 attacks during a hearing Saturday at Guantanamo Bay , according to a transcript released by the US Defense Department (More) |
France resumes nuclear testing in Polynesia
On June 13, 1995, France announced that it would resume nuclear testing in French Polynesia. France signed in 1996 signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, after widespread protests ensued following the resumed tests.
