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

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

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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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Predictable Chaos as Guantanamo Trials Resume

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics

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

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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Chaos and Lies: Why Obama Was Right To Halt The Guantanamo Trials

Andy Worthington | Posted 02.22.2009 | World

Read More: CIA Secret Prisons, Col. Stephen Henley, Terrorism, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Omar Khadr, Canada, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Dick Cheney, Politics, Khalid El-Masri, Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, Bush Administration Torture, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Bagram, Mohammed El-Gharani, Laid Saidi, Maher Arar, Marwan Jabour, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, The Guantanamo Files, President Bush, Syria, Fbi, Extraordinary Rendition, Closing Guantanamo, Torture, World News

In one of his first acts as president, Obama ordered prosecutors in Guantanamo's Military Commission trials to ask for a four-month stay on all proceedings.

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Is The 9/11 Trial Confession An Al-Qaeda Propaganda Coup?

Andy Worthington | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: 9/11 Trials, Al-Qaeda, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Bin Attash, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Terrorism, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, 9/11, CIA Torture, President Bush, Mustafa Al-Hawsawi, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Military Commissions, Politics News

I can only wonder if Mohammed have decided that their best hope for advancing al-Qaeda's cause lies in trying to secure a conviction in the tainted Military Commissions before Obama can dismantle them.

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Is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Running the 9/11 Trials?

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.29.2008 | 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 08.09.2008 | 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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Can It Gitmo Bad Than This?

Gabor Rona | Posted 07.22.2008 | 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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