Senate to hold hearings on 'war on terror' military trials
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The Senate this week takes the first step in changing US law to allow foreign-born terror suspects to be tried by US military tribunal.
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The U.S. Senate will try again to  confront President George W. Bush over his troop buildup in  Iraq, Democratic leaders announced on Thursday, more than a  week after senators shelved the issue in a procedural brawl.
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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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ARGUMENTS: The Bush administration told the U.S. Court of Military Commission Review that discrepancies between the nation's new terrorism law and the way it is being carried out should not stall one of the Pentagon's first terror trials.
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The historic military trials of four al Qaeda suspects are set to get under way at the US military base in Cuba. The Guantanamo Bay cases mark the first time military commissions have been held for more than 50 years.
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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said the Senate Armed Services Committee will hold hearings on a Washington Post report that the Department of Defense is reinterpreting U.S. law to give the secretary broad authority over clandestine operations abroad.
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While Democrats plan to allow quick committee approval of attorney general nominee Alberto Gonzales, they plan extensive debate in the Senate on his qualifications and participation in the Bush administration's war on terror.
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U.S. military authorities held preliminary hearings Friday to determine whether four Marines who had been charged with raping a Japanese woman last year should be court-martialed.
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Â· Chairman of joint chiefs of staff to stand down Â· Senate hearings would have been controversial
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A U.S. military court began a hearing Sunday to determine if five American soldiers should be tried in the alleged rape-slaying of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl.
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The U.S. Senate is likely this week  to pass a bill that outlines rules for interrogating terrorism  suspects and bringing them to trial, Senate Majority Leader  Bill Frist said on Sunday.
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U.S. NAVAL BASE GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba  - Four  suspected al Qaeda fighters will be formally charged with war  crimes this week as the U.S. military opens the first legal  hearings for foreign prisoners captured during the war in  Afghanistan and held at a remote U.S. Navy base in Cuba.
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White House counsel Alberto Gonzales  will be grilled over what critics call his "appalling" role in  policies blamed for abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and  Guantanamo Bay, when Senate hearings begin on Thursday over his  nomination to be U.S. Attorney General.
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MANNHEIM - Defence lawyers probed Monday for prosecution errors at a pre-trial, military court hearing dealing with four US soldiers implicated in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal.
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The Supreme Court&#039;s rebuff of the Bush administration&#039;s Guantanamo military tribunals knocks the issue into the halls of Congress, where GOP leaders are already trying to figure out how to give the president the options he wants for dealing with suspected terror detainees.
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Military court proceedings for four detainees from the US-led war in Afghanistan are due to start on Tuesday at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Flying home after visiting the Guantanamo Bay detention center, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Sunday he expects bipartisan support for putting top captured al-Qaida figures on trial before military commissions and for guidelines on how they should be treated.