US faces uphill fight convicting 7 Miami suspects
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The U.S. government has suffered   enough legal setbacks in its war on terrorism to suggest the   conviction of seven men accused of a plot to attack America's   tallest building is anything but certain.
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Four suspected al-Qaida fighters will be formally charged with war crimes this week as the US military opens the first legal hearings for foreign prisoners held at the US Navy base Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
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In a stinging defeat for the Bush administration, one of seven Miami men accused of plotting to join forces with al-Qaida to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower was acquitted Thursday, and the case against the rest ended in a hung jury.
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MIAMI, Sept. 14 -- A federal judge on Thursday declined to reinstate a key terrorism charge in the case against alleged al-Qaeda operative Jose Padilla and two other defendants, raising the possibility of delays in their Jan. 22 trial if prosecutors appeal the ruling.
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The United States will seek the death penalty against six Guantanamo Bay detainees who are suspects in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a senior U.S. official said.
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The United States will this week start controversial military proceedings against an Australian Taliban fighter and three bodyguards for Osama bin Laden.
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The conviction of an American citizen on charges of rape and murder, and his subsequent release, has put Nicaraguaâs justice system on trial.
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Five months after terror-conspiracy convictions, prosecutors and the defense still battle over the evidence.
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Of the 29 people who will go on trial for the March 2004 Madrid train bombings, seven face some 40,000 years in jail if found guilty.
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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba The case of an accused al-Qaida accountant set to appear before a US military tribunal is hitting a snag before the proceedings can even start.
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If  Osama bin Laden ever stands trial, there's a prosecutor in Chicago waiting to face him down. As a driven young lawyer in the 1990s, Patrick J. Fitzgerald built the first criminal indictment against the man who would become the world's most hunted terrorist. Both men have moved...
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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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A Briton who has spent more than 20 years on death row in the US is to face a retrial.
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Six GuantÃ¡namo detainees accused of murder and war crimes could face death penalty if convicted
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The charges include the 2002 bombing of a French oil tanker and plotting to kill the United States ambassador. One man was sentenced to death for killing a Yemeni police officer and seven received 10 year prison terms.
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US military authorities could bring terrorism charges by the end of the week against Australia's only inmate at the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, the chief prosecutor said.
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Despite gaining their freedom by signing pledges to renounce violence, at least seven former prisoners of the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have returned to terrorism, at times with deadly consequences.