Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

How Guantanamo Can Be Closed: More Advice for Barack Obama

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

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

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 10.27.2008 | Politics

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

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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Is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Running the 9/11 Trials?

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Al-Qaeda, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ramzi Yousef, Walid Bin Attash, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Terrorism, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, Ammar Al-Baluchi, Guantanamo Detainees, 9/11, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Mustafa Al-Hawsawi, Col. Ralph Kohlmann, Military Commissions, Politics News

It could all have been so different. Between September 2002 and April 2003, the five defendants in the forthcoming 9/11 trial at Guantánamo -- Khalid...

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Secret "War on Terror" Prison on Diego Garcia Confirmed

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo Detainees, Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ghost Prisoners, Cia, Terrorism, Richard Clarke, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, Abu Zubaydah, Guantanamo, Diego Garcia, British Government, Gen. Michael Hayden, Barry McCaffrey, Hambali, Politics News

This news will be an embarrassment to the US government, which has persistently denied claims that it operated a secret prison on Diego Garcia.

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Brother of US "Enemy Combatant" Released from Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: US Supreme Court, Al-Qaeda, Guantanamo Hunger Strike, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Jarallah Al-Marri, Ali Al-Marri, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, Taliban, Qatar, US District Court, Politics News

What is distressing about this latest batch of releases is that two of the men -- those from Afghanistan and the UAE -- have left Guantanamo as unknown as when they arrived.

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Court Confirms President's Dictatorial Powers in Case of US "Enemy Combatant" Ali al-Marri

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: US Supreme Court, Us Constitution, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Enemy Combatants, Judge Diana Gribbon Motz, Ali Al-Marri, Terrorism, Jose Padilla, Taliban, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge William B. Traxler, Yaser Hamdi, Al Qaeda, Politics News

Not content with endorsing the president's dictatorial right to imprison "enemy combatants", the judges ruled that the President did not even have to allege that an "enemy combatant" had ever raised arms against US forces.

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Can It Gitmo Bad Than This?

Gabor Rona | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Human Rights, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Terrorism, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, Rule of Law, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Mustafa Al-Hawsawi, Torture, Military Commissions, Politics News

In the surreal world of Guantanamo's military commissions, the government spares no expense and effort to control every movement in order to mimic, but avoid true operation of, the rule of law.

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9/11 Change: Yes We Should!

Coleen Rowley | Posted 06.24.2008 | Home

Read More: Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Zacarias Moussaoui, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Debra Burlingame, TSA Attorney Carla Martin, 9/11 Families, Justice for All Act, Improving Access to Documents Act of 2008, Home News

Recently, our government excluded the 9/11 victims' families from attending the arraignment of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other terror suspects a...

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9/11 Mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed On Trial At Guantanamo Bay

AP | ANDREW O. SELSKY | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 9/11 Mastermind, Guantanamo Bay, War-Crimes Tribunal, 9/11 Mastermind Trial, 9/11 Mastermind in Court, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Trial, Politics News

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the reputed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, told a military judge at his arraignme...

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Fact Sheet: The 16 Prisoners Charged in Guantanamo's Military Commissions

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics

In April, Ibrahim al-Qosi also boycotted his pre-trial hearing, telling the judge, "I do not recognize the justice or the lawfulness of this court,

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Betrayals, Backsliding and Boycotts: the Continuing Collapse of Guantanamo's Military Commissions

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.17.2008 | Politics

Anyone who has kept half an eye on the proceedings at the Military Commissions in Guantanamo will be aware that their progress has been faltering at best.

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The US Military's Shameless Propaganda Over Guantanamo's 9/11 Trials

Andy Worthington | Posted 04.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ibrahim Al-Qosi, Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, Ahmed Mohammed Al-Darbi, Mohamed Jawad, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Cmdr. Suzanne Lachelier, Major Tom Fleener, Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, 9/11, Lt. Col. Bryan Broyles, Salim Hamdan, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, Omar Khadr, Military Commissions, Politics News

In what appears to be nothing more than propaganda masquerading as news, the US military has announced that it will televise the Guantánamo trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

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Phi Beta Interrogator

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 04.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Iraq War, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Interrogation, Waterboarding, John Yoo, Iraq, Alyssa Peterson, Iraq Suicides, John Yoo Memo, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

What a horrific statement that some have opted to take their own lives rather than participate in practices that go against their principles.

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"High Noon" over Torture

Bennet Kelley | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Interrogation, Terrorism, Waterboarding, War Crimes Act of 1996, Detainee Treatment Act, Torture, Al Qaeda, Politics News

Bush's veto of the 2008 Intelligence Authorization Act has very little to do with Al Qaeda or even torture and everything to do with November 4th.

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End Military Commissions

Anthony D. Romero | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo, Waterboarding, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Gitmo, Torture, Military Commissions, Guantanamo Detainees, Politics News

The reputation of the U.S. has been tarnished throughout the world since the Bush administration replaced our military justice systems with a regime of military commissions.

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Six in Guantánamo Charged with 9/11 Murders: Why Now? And What About the Torture?

Andy Worthington | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Dan Coleman, Alberto J. Mora, CIA Prisons, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Cia, Walid Bin Attash, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, 9-11 Terror Charges, Al-Qaeda, Waterboarding, 9-11, Mustafa Al-Hawsawi, Mohammed Al-Qahtani, Fbi, Politics News

It is surely no coincidence, that the charges against the Guantánamo detainees came just six days after the director of the CIA, admitted that three of the "high-value" detainees had been subjected to waterboarding.

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Focus Of Detainee Trial Is Likely To Suit Bush

NY Times | Steven Lee Myers | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Warwire, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, War on Terror, Guantanamo Detainee Trial, Guantanamo Detainees, Death Penalty, Guantanamo Death Penalty, Politics News

Harsh interrogations and Guantánamo Bay, secret prisons and warrantless eavesdropping, the war against Al Qaeda and the one in Iraq. On issue after i...

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FBI Team Reinterrogated CIA Suspects To Get "Clean" Intel

Washington Post | Josh White, Dan Eggen and Joby Warrick | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: CIA Interrogations, Warwire, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, War on Terror, Murder Charges Guantamo Detainees, Guantanamo Detainees, Enhanced Interrogations, CIA Torture, FBI Interrogations, Politics News

The Bush administration announced yesterday that it intends to bring capital murder charges against half a dozen men allegedly linked to the Sept. 11,...

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Waterboarding: Two Questions for Michael Hayden about Three "High-Value" Detainees Now in Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics

In light of the comments made by CIA sources in 2005, I can only wonder how it's feasible for Michael Hayden to assert that waterboarding was restricted to three "high-value" detainees.

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Six Years Of Guantánamo: Enough Is Enough

Andy Worthington | Posted 01.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo Torture, Guantanamo Detainees, Breaking Politics Newsustice Department, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, War on Terror, Torture, Vice Presient Cheney, Guantanamo Whistleblowers, Abu Zubaydah, Guantanamo, President Bush, Military Commissions, Tunisia, Politics News

Six years ago the first of 778 prisoners -- identified only by numbers -- arrived at the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

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