Salim Hamdan

Ten Years After 9/11: Congress Is Still Terrified and We Are No Safer

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: John McCain, Mitch McConnell, Debt Ceiling, Mccain, Civil Rights, Terrorism, 9/11, Congress, Obama, Salim Hamdan, Military-Detention, Osama Bin Laden, Aumf, Afghanistan War, Mckeon, Military Commissions, Human Rights, Guantanamo Bay, Ndaa, National Defense Authorization Act, September 11th, Dhs, Fbi, Politics News
Daphne Eviatar

If you think Congress' handling of the debt ceiling crisis was a catastrophe, take a closer look at how lawmakers are responding to the terrorism threat.

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Film Review: The Oath

Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jihad, Abu Jandal, Afghanistan, The Oath, Laura Poitras, Salim Hamdan, Islamic Jihadists, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan War, Osama Bin Laden, New York News
Stewart Nusbaumer

Watching The Oath last night, I suddenly remembered a forgotten Marine companion from 42 years ago.

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Lindsey Graham's Third Strike?

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 9/11 Trials, 9/11, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, Lindsey Graham, Military Commissions Act, Boumediene v. Bush, Gitmo, September 11th, Detainee Treatment Act, Military Commissions, Politics News
Daphne Eviatar

A sharp rebuke from the Supreme Court has not stopped Lindsey Graham from now attempting a third time to broker yet another deal to deny detainees the right to civilian court review.

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Why We Need the Guantanamo Lawyers

Jesse Larner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lindsay Graham, Andrew McCarthy, War on Terror, Rule of Law, Eric Holder, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, Boumediene v. Bush, Dick Cheney, Boston-Massacre, Sean Hannity, Liz Cheney, Charles Krauthammer, Michelle Malkin, John Adams, William Kristol, Bill O'Reilly, Politics News
Jesse Larner

Without the rule of law, without fair trials even for the despised, there is nothing else that can be called civilization, nothing else that civilized people can live, fight, or die for.

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9/11 Trial At Guantanamo Delayed Again: Can We Have Federal Court Trials Now, Please?

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Col. Peter Masciola, House of Representatives, Congress, David Kris, Col. Stephen Henley, World, War on Terror, Walid Bin Attash, Terrorism, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, David Hicks, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, 9/11, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, Justice Department, Barack Obama, World News, Al Qaeda, Military Commissions, Politics News, Senate, Capt. John Murphy, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, Guantanamo Bay, Maj. David Frakt, Mustafa Al-Hawsawi, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Scarcely in its history has the United States entertained such a shabby and shamelessly politicized travesty of justice as the Military Commissions.

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No Escape From Guantanamo: The Latest Habeas Rulings

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, War on Terror, Ghaleb Al-Bihani, 9/11 Anniversary, President Obama, Judge James Robertson, 9/11, Guantanamo, Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, Taliban, Judge Ellen Huvelle, World News, Dick Cheney, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Kandahar, Mohammed Al-Adahi, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Abdul Rahim Al-Ginco, The Guantanamo Files, Judge Gladys Kessler, Advocacy, Closing Guantanamo, World, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Pakistan, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Task Force, Authorization for Use of Military Force, Salim Hamdan, Yemeni Detainees Guantanamo, US District Court, Kuwaiti Detainees Guantanamo, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Bush Administration, Judge Richard Leon, Adham Mohammed Ali Awad, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, Tora Bora, Al-Farouq, Cuba, Guantanamo Files, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Rulings made by District Court judges in the habeas corpus appeals of prisoners held at Guantánamo seemed to confirm that the courts were uniquely placed to deliver justice to the prisoners.

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Predictable Chaos as Guantanamo Trials Resume

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War on Terror, Cmdr. Suzanne Lachelier, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, David Hicks, President Obama, 9/11, Guantanamo, Omar Khadr, World News, Politics News, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Lt. Rich Federico, Col. Morris Davis, Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, Guantanamo Bay, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, World, Human Rights First, Walid Bin Attash, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Senate Armed Services Committee, CIA Torture, Mohammed Kamin, Salim Hamdan, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Osama Bin Laden, Capt. John Murphy, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Federal Court, Mustafa Al-Hawsawi, Politics News
Andy Worthington

With no visible progress this was another dismal outing for the Commissions, and another warning for the Obama administration that any kind of revival of the wretched trial system will remain fraught with insoluble problems.

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How Cooking For The Taliban Gets You Life In Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Al-Qaeda, Congress, Ghaleb Al-Bihani, Abu Zubaydah, President Obama, Guantanamo, Taliban, Habeas Corpus, Politics, Enemy Combatants, Bosnia, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Mohammed El-Gharani, Hisham Sliti, Closing Guantanamo, Belkacem Bensayah, Yemen, Tunisia, Judge Ricardo Urbina, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Salim Hamdan, US District Court, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Uighurs, Guantanamo Uighurs, Judge Richard Leon, Obama First 100 Days, Muaz Al-Alawi, Huzaifa Parhat, World News
Andy Worthington

Those of us who prefer justice to arbitrary and unaccountable detention without charge or trial were delighted when, last week, Barack Obama fulfilled...

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Seven Years of Guantanamo, Seven Years of Torture and Lies

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, Geneva Conventions, Al-Qaeda, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Maj. Gen. Michael Dunlavey, Donald Rumsfeld, Guantanamo, David Addington, Taliban, Salim Hamdan, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Dick Cheney, Osama Bin Laden, Bush Administration Torture, Guantanamo Hunger Strike, Obama Transition, Closing Guantanamo, Torture, The Guantanamo Files, World News
Andy Worthington

Seven years later, it should be abundantly clear that none of the defenders of Guantanamo who indulged in hysterical rhetoric had any idea what they were talking about.

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The Dying Days of the Guantanamo Trials

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mohamed Jawad, Al-Qaeda, Col. Stephen Henley, David Hicks, Guantanamo, Taliban, Omar Khadr, Dick Cheney, Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, Tarek El-Sawah, Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, Col. James Pohl, The Guantanamo Files, Closing Guantanamo, Abdul Ghani, Ahmed Al-Darbi, Afghanistan, Abdul Rahim Al-Nashiri, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, CIA Torture, Susan Crawford, David Addington, Salim Hamdan, Noor Uthman Muhammed, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Osama Bin Laden, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, Torture, Politics, World News
Andy Worthington

The Military Commissions to try Guantanamo detainees have rarely grabbed the media attention that a novel, flagship program to try "terror suspects" should have attracted.

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Alleged Bin Laden Driver Extradited From Guantanamo

ABC News | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bin Laden Driver, Hamdan Gitmo, Hamdan Extradited, Hamdan Yemen, Salim Hamdan, Terrorism, Osama Driver Extradited, Hamdan Guantanamo, Home News

Convicted Guantanamo detainee Salim Hamdan will soon be extradited to his home country of Yemen to serve out the remainder of the five-month term impo...

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Bin Laden's Driver To Be Released From Guantanamo; Government Defeated

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yemen, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, Capt. Keith Allred, Military Commissions, Closing Guantanamo, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Salim Hamdan, who was convicted in a trial by Military Commission at Guantánamo during the summer for providing material support for terrorism, is to be flown out of Guantánamo on Monday.

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How Guantanamo Can Be Closed: More Advice for Barack Obama

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Syria, Mohamed Jawad, US Supreme Court, Yemen, Tunisia, Terrorism, Judge Ricardo Urbina, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, Uzbekistan, Military Commissions Act, Omar Khadr, Uighurs, Barack Obama, Habeas Corpus, Military Commissions, Guantanamo Uighurs, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Enemy Combatants, Obama Guantanamo, Albania, Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, Libya, Huzaifa Parhat, President Bush, The Guantanamo Files, Iraq, China, Closing Guantanamo, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Several prominent human rights and legal organizations launched a campaign in Berlin on November 10, aimed at persuading European countries to accept cleared prisoners from Guant�namo.

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The Collapse of Omar Khadr's Guantanamo Trial

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John McCain, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Col. Patrick Parrish, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Salim Hamdan, Omar Khadr, Canada, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Politics News
Andy Worthington

The latest news to rock the Commissions is that the trial of Omar Khadr... has been delayed until after the administration leaves office.

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The Dark Heart of Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mohamed Jawad, Terrorism, David Hicks, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Susan Crawford, David Addington, Salim Hamdan, Military Commissions Act, Omar Khadr, Military Commissions, Dick Cheney, Daniel Dell'Orto, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Col. Morris Davis, Scott Horton, William J. Haynes II, Maj. David Frakt, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Vandevelt's profound criticisms of a system that imprisons juveniles and suppresses evidence relevant to the defense, is just part of a much darker narrative that has been unfolding for the last 18 months.

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Seized at 15, Omar Khadr turns 22 in Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, Col. Patrick Parrish, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Nathan Whitling, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, Omar Khadr, Dennis Edney, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Col. Peter Brownback, Military Commissions, Home News
Andy Worthington

Today, Omar Khadr, the sole Canadian citizen in Guantánamo, marks his 22nd birthday in isolation. Seized in Afghanistan when he was just 15 years old...

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Guantanamo trials: another insignificant Afghan charged

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: US Supreme Court, Terrorism, Col. Morris Davis, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, The Guantanamo Files, Bostan Karim, Military Commissions, Obaidullah, Politics News
Andy Worthington

The Military Commissions at Guantánamo -- the trial system for "War on Terror" prisoners that was established in the wake of the 9/11 attacks -- are ...

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Controversy Still Plagues Guantanamo's Military Commissions

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mohamed Jawad, Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, Terrorism, Col. Morris Davis, Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, Maj. David Frakt, Omar Khadr, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, Charles "Cully" Stimson, Abdul Ghani, Brig. Gen. Gregory Zanetti, Military Commissions, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Lost in the coverage of Hamdan's trial, which dominated media reports about Guantanamo was the fact that a twenty-third prisoner had been put forward for trial by Military Commission on July 28.

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Release Hamdan

Justin Florence | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Enemy Combatants, Terrorism, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Supreme Court Guantanamo Detainees, Salim Hamdan, Illegal Detainment, Detainees, Politics News
Justin Florence

Mr. Hamdan's sentence, in the Administration's view, will be not that selected by the military, but whatever the president wants. This position is unjust and unwise.

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The Media's Response to the Hamdan Trial: Due Process or Dictatorial Sideshow?

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pentagon, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Salt Lake Tribune, New York Times, Stephen Colbert, Washington Post, Al-Qaeda, Salim Hamdan, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Kansas City Star, Military Commissions, Media News
Andy Worthington

As the Olympics and the war in Georgia threaten to sweep all before them, the significance of the lenient sentence handed down by a military jury to G...

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Salim Hamdan's Tribunal and the Strength of the Constitution

Jonathan Mahler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nuremberg Trials, Salim Hamdan, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, Politics News
Jonathan Mahler

Four-and-a-half years ago I profiled Hamdan's newly assigned defense lawyer, a JAG lawyer named Lieutenant Commander Charles Swift -- a gift from the magazine gods.

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So They Nabbed The Driver, But Where is OBL?

Jamal Dajani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Salim Hamdan, Terrorism, George W. Bush, Guantanamo Detainees, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News
Jamal Dajani

The Bush administration, desperate to show it had made inroads into Bin Laden's terrorist network decided to take a gamble by trying Salim Hamdan. Hamdan, however, is nothing more than a chauffeur.

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Hamdan Case a Joke

Lionel Beehner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guantanamo Bay, International Law, Laws of War, Military Commissions Act, Afghanistan, Military Commissions, Guantanamo Detainees, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Hamdan, Salim Hamdan, Politics News
Lionel Beehner

Let's be honest: this case was a joke in the annals of justice and a blotch on America's campaign to prevent future 9/11's.

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Salim Hamdan's Sentence Signals the End of Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Murphy, Charles Swift, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, Judge Keith Allred, Military Commissions, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Until now, the administration has maintained it has the right to hold "enemy combatants" without charge until the end of hostilities. A sentence has now ended that open-ended policy.

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How Is Driving Bin Laden A War Crime?

ProPublica | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Osamas Driver, Osama Bin Laden Driver, Bin Laden Driver, Hamdan Verdict, Salim Hamdan, Osama Driver, Hamdan Guilty Verdict, Politics News

Among the many oddities of the U.S.'s first war crimes trial since World War II is this: The war crime for which Salim Hamdan was convicted, material ...

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