Guantanamo Panel Members Face Challenges
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Members of a U.S. military commission are being challenged by defense attorneys who say their ties to the war on terror could affect their ability to fairly judge four detainees charged with war crimes.
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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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Hostility and tension between inmates and their keepers at the Guantanamo Bay prison are evident in transcripts
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The alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and 13 other key suspects are set to face hearings at Guantanamo Bay.
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A divided panel from a conservative federal appeals court delivered a harsh rebuke to the Bush administration's anti-terrorism strategy Monday, ruling that U.S. residents cannot be locked up indefinitely as "enemy combatants" without being charged.
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The U.S. Supreme Court said on Friday it would hear appeals by Guantanamo prisoners on their right to challenge their indefinite confinement, a test of President George W. Bush's powers in the war on terrorism.
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The U.S. military is investigating how guards failed to prevent the death last month of a Guantanamo Bay detainee, an apparent suicide in one of the most closely monitored detention camps for suspected al-Qaida and Taliban members, the top commander said Tuesday.
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MEDINA, Saudi Arabia -- Mishal al-Harbi's brain was deprived of oxygen for several minutes on the evening of Jan. 16, 2003, while he was in U.S. detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. As a result, he cannot stand, his speech is slurred, and he has a twitch that periodically causes his head to shake and his legs to jerk....
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As debate about the future of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay heats up, a leading defense lawyer questions whether closing Gitmo would make any difference as to the rights of the detainees.
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The Supreme Court ruling on Guantanamo puts the brakes on what has been a sharp expansion of executive powers and raises fresh questions about other aspects of President Bush&#039;s war-on-terror policy.
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Key terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay could face military tribunals early next year, prosecutors say.
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More than 1,000 journalists have visited Guantanamo Bay since the U.S. military began locking up suspected al-Qaida and Taliban militants there 4 1/2 years ago. But access has been severely restricted: Journalists could not talk to detainees, they had to be accompanied by a military escort and their photos were censored.
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Two prisoners with alleged ties to the al-Qaida terrorist network appeared Saturday before a U.S. military review tribunal in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The presiding officer in charge of U.S. military commissions in Guantanamo Bay has recommended that two panel members be dismissed from hearing cases of suspected terrorists because they could be considered biased...
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A U.S. military review panel on Monday issued decisions on 17 detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ordering their continued incarseration as enemy combatants, an official said.
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The Bush administration faced pressure on Tuesday to overhaul how it brings foreign terrorism suspects to trial after the surprise dismissal of war crimes charges against two prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay.
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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.