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OPINION

Easy to Find Middle Ground on Gitmo: Klein

Military courts wouldn't allow torture evidence, get civilian review

May 21, 09 10:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Lawyers and soldiers are divided on how to deal with enemy combatants, but “it shouldn’t be too hard to find a middle ground,” writes Joe Klein in Time, because both arguments “are being made by unappealing extremists.” It’s unrealistic to try detainees in open... More »

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ACLU • enemy combatants • Guantanamo Bay • military commissions • Joe Klein • Lindsay Graham • Guantanamo tribunals • torture photos

Al-Qaeda Agent Pleads Guilty
to Supporting Terrorism

Al-Marri entered US
the day before 9/11

Apr 30, 09 6:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - An al-Qaeda sleeper agent who entered the country the day before the 9/11 attacks pleaded guilty to supporting terrorism in federal court today and faces 15 years in prison, the Peoria Journal Star reports. The government says Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, who had been designated an "enemy combatant" and... More »

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War on Terror • enemy combatants • terror suspects • al-Qaeda • Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri

(Newser) - A federal judge overruled both the Bush and the Obama administrations today, declaring that prisoners held at a military base in Afghanistan can challenge their detention in US civilian courts, the New York Times reports. The prisoners deserve the same right that the Supreme Court granted to Gitmo detainees last... More »

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Afghanistan • Bagram Air Force Base • enemy combatants • prisoners • habeas corpus

Yemen Doc Cleared to Leave
Gitmo After 7 Years

Justice Department clears detainee for transfer to unknown country

Mar 31, 09 4:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Yemeni doctor held at Guantanamo Bay since 2002 has been cleared for transfer abroad as part of the administration's review of prisoner cases, reports CNN. Justice Department officials say the hard part now will be to find a country willing to take him. The Bush administration once claimed the... More »

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Department of Justice • enemy combatants • Guantanamo Bay • Yemen • Guantanamo prisoners • al-Qaeda

(AP) - The Obama administration said today it is abandoning one of President Bush's key phrases in the war on terrorism: enemy combatant, the AP reports. The Justice Department said in legal filings that it will no longer use the term to justify holding prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. But that won't change... More »

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War on Terror • Barack Obama • Department of Justice • enemy combatants • Eric Holder

US Will Charge 'Combatant' in Military Custody

In policy shift, he will get civilian trial, not military tribunal

Feb 26, 09 4:48 PM CST
(Newser) - Ali al Marri, the only alleged enemy combatant held on US soil, will be charged by the Justice Department, possibly for supplying material support to terrorism, ABC News reports. The move to a civilian criminal trial is an about-face from the policies of the Bush administration, which had insisted on... More »

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Department of Justice • ACLU • enemy combatants • Ali al Marri • US Supreme Court • terror suspects • federal prosecution • Obama administration • criminal charges

(Newser) - NATO's top commander has authorized coalition troops “to attack directly drug producers and facilities throughout Afghanistan,” saying they “are inextricably linked to the Opposing Military Forces,” Der Spiegel reports. The order from US General John Craddock is not going over well with commanders on the... More »

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Afghanistan • NATO • drugs • US military • enemy combatants • drug trafficking • opium • David McKiernan • targets • John Craddock

2 Dozen Gitmo Prisoners Win Court Cases

All but 3 who got hearings were found wrongfully detained

Jan 19, 09 4:26 AM CST
(Newser) - At least 24 detainees at Guantanamo Bay have won cases in federal court or military tribunals voiding their detention in the last 3 months. While the Bush administration has insisted that the prisoners who remain at Gitmo are "the worst of the worst," there was apparently no legal... More »

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Taliban • enemy combatants • Guantanamo Bay • habeas corpus • Afghanis • Guantanamo prisoners • Boumediene v. Bush

Judge Orders Youngest Gitmo Prisoner Freed

Chadian citizen, 21,
has been held at camp
since he was 14

Jan 15, 09 4:31 AM CST
(Newser) - A judge has ordered the military to release the youngest prisoner ever sent to Guantanamo Bay, reports CNN. The judge ruled that Mohammad el-Gharani, sent to the detention center in 2002 at the age of 14, was not an enemy combatant. El-Gharani's lawyer said his client, a citizen of Chad,... More »

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Chad • enemy combatants • Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • al-Qaeda

US Ends Trials of 5 Gitmo Prisoners

Though charges are dropped, men are still held, may be retried

Oct 22, 08 10:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - The war crimes tribunal at Guantanamo Bay has dropped charges against five suspects that the Pentagon has called al-Qaeda operatives, reports the Los Angeles Times. All of the men were fingered by Abu Zubaydah, a Saudi-born militant whom the Bush administration concedes was waterboarded. The charges were dismissed after one... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • enemy combatants • Guantanamo Bay • Abu Zubaydah • al-Qaeda • Guantanamo tribunals • war crimes tribunal

Opinion

Six Months for Hamdan? Scrap Military Trials

It's time for a new
system with elements of civilian courts

Aug 8, 08 2:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Salim Hamdan’s five-and-a-half-year prison sentence is a "stunningly unjust" joke, writes an enraged Andrew McCarthy in the National Review, especially because bin Laden’s driver will eligible for release in 6 months. Absurdly, he is now in a better position than his fellow detainees who haven’... More »

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military tribunal • war crimes • enemy combatants • Guantanamo Bay • Salim Ahmed Hamdan

Court: al-Qaeda Suspect Can Challenge Detention

Ruling finds president can legally order detention, but detainee free to challenge status

Jul 16, 08 5:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - The president has the right to order the detention of enemy combatants, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday—but detainees can challenge that status. The Virginia-based court was hearing the case of an al-Qaeda suspect who's been in a Navy brig for 5 years without trial, Reuters reports, making him... More »

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enemy combatants • Ali al Marri • detainee • executive order • suspected terrorists • al-Qaeda • detention without trial

Ex-Detainee Describes
Gitmo Tortures

He was beaten,
hung from ceiling,
shocked with electricity

May 21, 08 12:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - A man arrested in Pakistan and held as an enemy combatant in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay was hung from the ceiling, beaten, and shocked with jolts of electricity, he testified to Congress yesterday. The German-born Turkish citizen told lawmakers that US interrogators also forced water down his throat. He was... More »

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War on Terror • torture • enemy combatants • Guantanamo Bay • Kandahar • detainee • interrogation • waterboarding • harsh interrogation

 Pentagon to Build Giant Prison in Afghanistan

New Bagram complex marks intention to hold prisoners abroad for years to come

May 17, 08 6:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Pentagon is planning to build a huge new detention complex in Afghanistan, reports the New York Times, acknowledging that the US expects to hold prisoners there for many years to come. The 40-acre, $60-million facility at Bagram Air Force Base will replace the existing makeshift prison in a converted... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Pentagon • prison • Bagram Air Force Base • US military • enemy combatants • prisoners • jail • Bagram

 Freed From Gitmo—to Kill in Iraq 

Release detainee becomes suicide bomber

May 8, 08 3:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - One of the suicide bombers responsible for a series of attacks in the Iraqi city of Mosul last month is a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay, reports the New York Times. The Kuwaiti, originally detained in Afghanistan, is said to have traveled to Iraq via Syria to join jihadists... More »

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Iran • terrorism • suicide bomber • enemy combatants • Guantanamo Bay • Hoshyar Zebari • Mosul • al-Qaeda • Iraq war • detainees

OPINION

What the Candidates Should Be Talking About

LA Times editors take a break from nonsense and turn to issues

Apr 28, 08 8:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Quick, before the public completely loses interest: Let’s leave aside “guns, bitterness, race, religion, geriatric radicals and other trivia,” and turn to real presidential political issues, Los Angeles Times editors write. They pose some questions that most need answering:
  • For John McCain: You voted against giving
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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • ethanol • workplace discrimination • enemy combatants • executive power • troop drawdown

Gitmo Prisoners Granted Phone Call to Family

They'll get just one a year, along with censored letters

Mar 13, 08 4:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - "Unlawful enemy combatants" detained at the Guantanamo Bay naval base will be allowed to phone their families one a year, Reuters reports. But the military task force in charge of managing the prison has yet to work out the details. As it stands, Gitmo inmates can send and receive... More »

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human rights • US military • enemy combatants • Guantanamo Bay • Red Cross • prisoner of war • human rights abuse • International Committee of the Red Cross • Guantanamo prisoners

US Afghan Prison Dwarfs Gitmo

Plans to transfer prisoners falls short

Jan 7, 08 12:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Guantanamo Bay may get all the press, but Bagram, the US detention center in Afghanistan, holds over twice as many prisoners, and it’s proving just as difficult to close. Plans to transfer its roughly 630 inmates to a US-funded Afghan prison outside Kabul have failed, the New York ... More »

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Afghanistan • Bagram Air Force Base • enemy combatants • Guantanamo Bay • Geneva Convention • Red Cross

New Gitmo Hearing for Osama Driver

Third trial for man who drove bin Laden in
9/11 escape

Dec 7, 07 6:30 AM CST
(Newser) - The man who drove Osama bin Laden when he evacuated his compound just before  9/11 was the subject of a hearing yesterday on whether he can be tried as an unlawful enemy combatant. Salim Ahmed Hamdan, who was paid $200 a month as a driver and bodyguard for bin Laden,... More »

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military tribunal • enemy combatants • Osama bin Laden • Guantanamo prisoners • Salim Ahmed Hamdan

Secret Evidence Isn't Just for Gitmo Anymore

Slate's Lithwick says
combatant turn is trouble for us all

Oct 17, 07 3:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Department of Justice's stated reason for a major evidence no-show is that it can’t “be reasonably recompiled," Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick writes, a potentially dangerous precedent. Justice is thinking about redoing some military tribunals rather than present “not readily available” evidence used to brand enemy... More »

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Department of Justice • enemy combatants • Guantanamo Bay • warrantless wiretapping

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