U.S. Seeks to Throw Out Terror Convictions
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WASHINGTON - 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's war on terror on the eve of President Bush's re-election pitch at the GOP convention.    In a late Tuesday night court filing, the department told U.S...
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The U.S. Justice Department has asked a  federal judge in Detroit to toss out the convictions of three  Middle Eastern men caught in a roundup of hundreds of Arab  immigrants after the Sept. 11 attacks and charged with  supporting terrorism and document fraud.
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Plans to increase the time for which terrorist suspects can be held without charge are criticised.
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WASHINGTON - More than 350 people who have committed crimes or are suspected of terrorist links have been arrested in a federal crackdown on foreigners with visa violations, part of a broader effort to prevent al-Qaida from disrupting U.S. elections...
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Acting at the request of prosecutors, a federal judge on Thursday 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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A new U.S. plan to try suspected  terrorists at Guantanamo would grant a few more rights to  prisoners charged with war crimes but strip away all legal  recourse for the majority who will never face charges.
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The Pentagon has decided to ask U.S. military judges to reconsider their decision to dismiss charges against two terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, a spokesman said on Friday.
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Facing growing resistance on Capitol Hill, the White House may give in a little on legislation governing the treatment of terror suspects
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Plans to increase the amount of time for which terrorist suspects can be held without charge are criticised.
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Attorneys for Zacarias Moussaoui Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to bar the government from seeking the death penalty and from presenting evidence related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks at his trial.
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Evidence against the American terror suspect was obtained through torture, his lawyers say.
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Privacy advocates yesterday called on the federal government to scrap a Department of Homeland Security data-mining program designed to create terrorism risk assessments for every traveler who enters or leaves the United States.
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Spanish prosecutors are seeking a total  of 222,000 years in prison and nearly $1.17 billion in fines  for three suspects accused of aiding the Sept. 11, 2001,  attacks on the United States.
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The federal government has fallen back to prosecuting international terrorists at about the same rate it did before Sept. 11, according to a study based on Justice Department data.
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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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Prosecutors in the Pentagon's Office of Military Commissions have appealed the dismissal of war crimes charges against a Canadian detainee held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, continuing their argument that detainees in U.S. custody can be tried under Congress's new rules for military commissions.
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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.