Legal challenges could tie up 9/11 trials for years
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Six al-Qaida suspects accused of organising 9/11 attacks to be put on trial through GuantÃ¡namo's military tribunals
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A page, if not a chapter, has come to closure in the long dark saga of Sept. 11, 2001. A federal jury on Monday ruled that the assault on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center was in fact two occurrences for insurance purposes.
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Lawyers for an alleged al-Qaida member have filed an unusual appeal at the Supreme Court challenging the government's strategy in holding military trials for terror suspects in Cuba.
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A military defense lawyer asked the Pentagon on Wednesday to move the trial for an alleged bodyguard of Osama bin Laden to the U.S., saying difficult access for witnesses and the media make it impossible to hold it fairly at Guantanamo Bay.
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The United States will need years to finish the war crimes tribunals of al-Qaeda and Taliban detainees it started this week, according to US officials.
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A prosecutor said Monday he will seek prison terms of more than 74,000 years for each of three suspected al-Qaida members charged with using Spain as a staging ground for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.
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Algerian suspect wrongly accused of the 9/11 terror attacks vows to continue his legal fight
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WASHINGTON: New York and New Jersey authorities have said they will join a lawsuit suing Saudi Arabia, Osama bin Laden and other Islamic institutions that allegedly raised money for terrorism.
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The case of a U.S. defense lawyer  charged with aiding terrorism is a troubling matter for a jury  that may be split into supporters of President Bush and those  who think his anti-terrorism policies threaten civil rights.
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Attorneys defending an American accused of participating in an al-Qaida plot to set off a "dirty bomb" have issued a challenge to federal prosecutors: prove it or free him.
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U.S. military prosecutors will file charges on Monday against the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks and five other Guantanamo prisoners and will seek to execute them if they are convicted, officials involved in the process said.
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An American who lost his mother in the first plane to hit the World Trade Center during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks pressed an FBI investigator in a German court Tuesday for more details on the hijacking, wondering if her last minutes were "torture."
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U.S. military lawyers on Thursday   challenged President George W. Bush's plan to try terrorism   suspects including the accused September 11 mastermind, as   Democrats accused the White House of election-year   fearmongering.
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The owner of the World Trade Center site announces plans to sue Saudi Arabia, three years to the day since 9/11.
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Two men charged in the world's most lethal terror strike prior to September 11, 2001 get a last chance to defend themselves this week, in the trial over the 1985 bombing of an Air India jet.
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The lessons learned from a complex terrorism trial in 1996 are still echoing with Michael B. Mukasey.
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The Jose Padilla trial is a test: Can the US avoid the legal tangles of its 'war on terror' tactics?