Big Terror Trial Shaped Views of Justice Pick
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The lessons learned from a complex terrorism trial in 1996 are still echoing with Michael B. Mukasey.
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A U.S. military judge was considering a request Thursday by lawyers for Osama bin Laden's driver to interview the confessed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks Â a man they say could prove their client was no terrorist.
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In Indonesia, the crumbling prosecution case against alleged terror leader Abu Bakar Bashir has gotten a boost. A confessed senior member of the militant group Jemaah Islamiyah gave a detailed account of how
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MADRID (International Herald-Tribune) - As a verdict was due here Wednesday in the biggest Islamic terrorism trial in Europe, the government put security forces on alert and prepared new memorial services for the 191 people who were killed when 10 bombs packed with nails exploded on commuter trains in this capital on March 11, 2004. A three-judge panel was set to read out the verdicts and sentences after nearly five months of testimony by hundreds of witnesses, a spider's web of arguments by more than 40 attorneys and sporadic hunger strikes by several of the 28 defendants - most of them young Muslim men of North African origin who are accused of executing the plot out of allegiance to Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda.
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Since the Sept. 11 attacks, the governmentâs track record  against winning terrorism prosecutions has been decidedly spottier than in previous years.
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The crowd was so big it spilled out of the Alexandria courtroom: teachers, parents, the leader of a College Park mosque. Ali Asad Chandia, 29, a bearded man in a crisp, white shirt, sat quietly amid the throng -- a beloved third-grade teacher convicted of supporting terrorism.
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LONDON Less than a week before a hearing on whether he should be sent to the US to face terrorism charges, British authorities have reportedly decided to put a radical Muslim cleric on trial themselves.
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GUANTANAMO: Only a sanitised glimpse of Australian David Hicksâ life as a Taliban fighter or what it was like for Salim Hamdan to be Osama Bin Ladenâs personal driver and bodyguard will be given when their military trials open on Tuesday.
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A U.S. criminal defense lawyer could  have blocked an imprisoned Islamic cleric from stirring his  followers to renew terror attacks in Egypt, but instead she  chose to be a messenger in the plot, a federal prosecutor said  on Monday.
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The suspect stood behind the polished wooden bars in the new courtroom. His eyes flitted nervously as the litany of accusations was rattled off: mortar attacks, car bombings, kidnapping and murder &#151; among other crimes linked to his alleged role as an al-Qaida in Iraq fighter.
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Nearly six and a half years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the U.S. is preparing to prosecute six of the men it says are responsible. But the trial and verdicts Â not to mention justice Â remain a long way off in the death-penalty cases.
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The Jose Padilla trial is a test: Can the US avoid the legal tangles of its 'war on terror' tactics?
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The man accused of plotting the terror attacks in Russia was once capable of restraint.
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In sentencing, the judge must find that the convicted Al Qaeda recruit aimed to influence a government. But his trial has scant record of motive.
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Politically motivated officials at the Pentagon have pushed for convictions of high-profile detainees ahead of the 2008 elections, the former lead prosecutor for terrorism trials at Guantanamo Bay said last night, adding that the pressure played a part in his decision to resign earlier this month.
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Early reports say his choice will be Michael Chertoff, a former federal prosecutor who helped craft the early war on terror strategy.
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A former driver for Osama bin Laden may help decide the fate of dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainees, and perhaps all of them, as the Supreme Court prepares to rule on his legal challenge to the first U.S. war crimes trials since World War II.