U.S. Prepares for Guantanamo Arraignments
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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - Four Guantanamo prisoners will be the first suspected terrorists arraigned in preliminary hearings this week before their cases go to military commissions, or trials, in an unprecedented judicial process that foreign governments, lawyers and human rights groups have criticized.    While the maximum sentence the men face is life in prison, the military commissions - the first in nearly 60 years since the United States tried German saboteurs - will have the power to sentence others to death, and there is no independent appeal process...
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A prisoner who allegedly trained with al-Qaida appeared Wednesday before a U.S. military review tribunal in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, while another alleged al-Qaida operative refused to attend his hearing.
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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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Two prisoners, including a man accused of appearing in an al-Qaida film about the USS Cole bombing, went before military review tribunals at the U.S. outpost in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Thursday, a Pentagon official said.
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PENTAGON Defense officials say proceedings begin next week at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base for the first group of enemy combatants to go to trial. The four have been accused of war crimes -- of having varying roles in plots to attack Americans at home ...
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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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A prisoner who allegedly stockpiled explosives at a police station in Afghanistan was one of three detainees to go before U.S. military review tribunals on Monday in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, an official said.
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS AGENCY: Pre-trial hearings at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, of prisoners taken in the US &quot;war on terrorism&quot; are &quot;designed to convict&quot;, says one expert.
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GUANTANAMO BAY US NAVAL BASE, Cuba : The United States will start historic military trials against four al-Qaeda suspects, including Australian David Hicks, but controversy has raged over the hearings almost up to the last minute.
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Four Guantanamo prisoners will be the first suspected terrorists arraigned in preliminary hearings this week before their cases go to military commissions, or trials, in an unprecedented judicial process that foreign governments, lawyers and human rights groups have criticized.
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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - The U.S. prison camp for terror suspects is taking on a look of permanence as the mission marks its third year Tuesday, with plans for a new $25 million prison facility, $1.7 million psychiatric wing and a permanent guard force.
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The US is to bring terror charges against an Australian held at Guantanamo Bay for five years, officials say.
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The administration should bring its policies on prisoners in the war on terror into compliance with the Geneva Conventions. A prosecution before the first American military commission since World War II was
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- The US military will start preliminary hearings next week for the court-martials designed to try designated terrorist suspects held at the US naval base prisonat Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Pentagon announced Tuesday.
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Military tribunals are scheduled to begin Friday for 14 high-value foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but the hearings to determine whether they are enemy combatants will take place behind closed doors because of the risk that top-secret information could surface, defense officials said yesterday....
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Administration officials are preparing long-range plans for indefinitely imprisoning suspected terrorists whom they do not want to set free or turn over to courts in the United States or other countries.
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Osama bin Laden's chauffeur was arraigned Tuesday at the first U.S. military tribunal since World War II, appearing at a pretrial session as defense lawyers sought to challenge the process.