US Seeks to Throw Out Terror Convictions
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WASHINGTON Sept. 1, 2004 - The Justice Department is asking a judge to throw out the convictions of a suspected terror cell in Detroit because of prosecutorial misconduct, a dramatic setback for the administration&#39;s
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A coalition of human rights groups is demanding the United States account for 39 terror suspects it believes have been secretly imprisoned and published their names in a report being released Thursday.
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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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The Bush administration wants a federal court and congressional committees not to pursue investigations into the destruction of videotapes showing CIA interrogations of two al Qaeda suspects.
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The Bush administration appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday in an effort to limit the information it must provide when Guantanamo Bay prisoners challenge their continued captivity.
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As US takes aim at terrorists, international law and American values hang in the balance.
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DETROIT - A federal judge yesterday threw out the terrorism charges against two men convicted last year in a case once hailed by the Bush administration as a major victory in the war on terror.
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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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Lawyers for Islamist cleric Abu Hamza, who is wanted in the United States on terror charges, have lodged an appeal against his extradition from Britain, they said Wednesday.
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More than 1 million pages of historical government documents &#151; a stack taller than the U.S. Capitol &#151; have been removed from public view since the September 2001 terror attacks, according to records obtained by The Associated Press. Some of the papers are more than a century old.
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The U.S. government's failure this week to win a conviction in a major case of alleged terrorism financing is a sign it may be targeting the wrong suspects and needs to rethink its prosecution strategy, legal experts say.
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The United States is violating  international law by holding prisoners in its war on terror  incommunicado and in secret hiding places, Human Rights Watch  said in a report to be published on Tuesday calling for an end  to such practices.
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An Amnesty International report criticises the US over its treatment of prisoners during the war on terror.
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SCRANTON, Pennsylvania  - The United States is exposing deportees to the risk of torture by accepting the word of foreign governments that prisoners won't be tortured if sent home, lawyers for an Egyptian detainee argued on Thursday.
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The U.S. government is looking at options to appeal a surprise decision by military judges this week to dismiss war crimes charges against two prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, a U.S. government lawyer said on Thursday.
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The Justice Department has asked a judge to throw out the convictions of a suspected terror cell in Detroit because of prosecutorial misconduct, reversing course in a case the Bush administration once hailed as a major victory in the war on terrorism, legal sources said Tuesday.
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The US Senate orders the White House to give up papers relating its surveillance of domestic terror suspects.