Cori Crider

This week's suicide bomb in Sana'a came as no surprise here in Yemen. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has been threatening an attack on Sana'a for some time now. But it may be something of a surprise to many Americans that many Yemenis would cite U.S....

As the clock ticks down on the Yunus Rahmatullah case, the Ministry of Defence has been caught in another mess over its special forces in Iraq. The two cases have regrettable parallels: in both instances the MoD set its face against coming clean about the fate of its...

I have just arrived in Guantánamo Bay, on my first attorney-client visit for a year.

On one level it's easier to converse with prisoners these days -- we have held them so long that many speak American English -- but on another, we lawyers have been reduced to little...

Last month I spent time with Khadidja al Saadi, a 19-year-old girl who MI6 and CIA rendered back to Gaddadfi's regime when she was 14. Her three siblings, her mum, and her father Sami were with her. Her father, the target of the operation, spent years being beaten...

U.S. officials now admit that the CIA relies on proxy detention in lieu of the Bush-era secret prison regime. Congressmen are wringing their hands, but for the wrong reasons.

I am stunned to find myself agreeing with even a syllable uttered by Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss (R), but apparently neither...

While I cringe to point readers to a blog with such a howler for a title, there's a colloquy going on at 'Lawfare' that is worth checking out.

Ben Wittes is a Brookings fellow who positions himself as a centrist. A year on from the deadline to...

I hope media and courtroom flurries this week have reminded readers of a man the US government would rather they forget: my Guantanamo client and Algerian refugee Ahmed Belbacha.

As reported by the Washington Post, Ahmed and five other Algerians in Guantánamo Bay are deadlocked in a fight...

Today at Guantánamo I met Samir Mukbel, one of Reprieve's Yemeni clients. I'm not allowed to say what he said at this meeting, but I can certainly tell you he bears no resemblance to the Yemeni bogeyman of recent cable news fame.

I know his story well from prior...

Celebrations of a new civil liberties hero were sadly premature. Four months on, dozens of innocents are still in prison.

You would be hard-pressed to find a kid more thrilled on Barack Obama's first day in office than Mohammed el Gharani. On January 21, had you been standing at the...