Why detainee trials got snagged over a word
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No one has designated those held at Guant&#225;namo Bay 'unlawful' combatants. Does it matter?
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A federal judge ordered the government to justify why it has been holding detainees in a U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for nearly three years without charges and explain why they should not be released.
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In a challenge that could make or break upcoming trials by a special military commission, defense lawyers are moving to dismiss terrorism charges against
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A US federal judge has ruled that terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba must be allowed to meet lawyers. The ruling also forbids the US government from monitoring their conversations.
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The allegations trickling in to a federal court publicly reflect for the first time the Pentagon's justifications for detaining some of the 550 captives at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay.
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GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba  - The U.S. military has lost a year's worth of records describing the Guantanamo interrogation and confinement of Osama bin Laden's driver, a prosecutor said at the Yemeni captive's war court hearing on Thursday.
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Disagreements over the treatment of Abu Zubaydah, the first Osama bin Laden henchman captured by the U.S., foreshadow a debate over interrogation methods.
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WASHINGTON -- A trove of government disclosures forced by a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit has signaled that the abuse of detainees in Iraq and at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was much broader than the Bush administration has portrayed it since the Abu Ghraib prison scandal became public this spring.
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A British detainee was reportedly tortured at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for reciting the Koran when talking was banned.
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WASHINGTON -- The decision by US military judges Monday to dismiss the war crimes charges against two detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has reignited a debate over how to try those accused of terrorism, prompting members of Congress to challenge the Bush administration over a legal system they say denies proper rights to detainees and has yet to bring ...
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A fter a prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq, the International Committee of the Red Cross has reportedly found that prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay are subjected to interrogation methods that are &quot;tantamount to torture.
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The Bush administration is taking the narrowest possible view of legal rights the Supreme Court gave to terrorism detainees while trying to fend off any new court challenges. Ultimately the high court probably will weigh in again, lawyers said.
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Plans to increase the amount of time for which terrorist suspects can be held without charge are criticised.
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My god this is disturbing :  "WASHINGTON  - The Bush administration is preparing plans for possible lifetime detention of suspected terrorists, including hundreds whom the government does not have enough evidence to charge in courts, The Washington Post reported Sunday."  "Citing intelligence, defense and diplomatic officials, the newspaper said the Pentagon (news - web sites) and the CIA (news - web sites) had asked the White House to decide on a more permanent approach for those it would not set free or turn over to courts at home or abroad."  ... so all you have to do is be a "suspected" terrorist now and you can spend the rest of your life in prison.
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Some saw the beginning of the end for Guantanamo Bay, others a vindication for Europeans who have condemned the U.S. prison camp. Still others saw a toothless ruling that will ultimately make no difference in a climate where they believe Washington is determined to have its way.
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A federal judge expressed skepticism yesterday that he should order a special judicial probe into whether the Bush administration could have destroyed evidence related to suspected enemy fighters at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, because of the CIA's recent acknowledgment that it...
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The Administration falls in line with the Supreme Court on treatment of detainees. But questions remain about how and when the new standards will be applied