Jul 22 2008 - Washington Times
Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey on Monday urged Congress to ensure a landmark Supreme Court case doesn't result in compromised intelligence and the release of suspected terrorists in the U.S.
Aug 28 2008 - Seattle PI
WASHINGTON –– A federal judge overseeing cases against dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainees said Wednesday that he fears the public –– and the detainees themselves –– will be locked out of the courtroom when evidence in the case is scrutinized for the first time.
Aug 14 2008 - San Francisco Chronicle
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) ––The military jurors who gave Osama bin Laden's driver a light sentence want him freed from Guantanamo once he completes it in December and were frustrated to learn the military can hold him indefinitely, one of the panelists said Wednesday.
Aug 09 2008 - Seattle PI
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba – Osama bin Laden's driver, who received only a five–year sentence, is not so different from the majority of the 265 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay: a low–level player without a proven record of terrorism.
Aug 08 2008 - Seattle PI
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba – A U.S. military jury sentenced Osama bin Laden's driver Thursday to just 5 1/2 years in prison, a surprise rebuke to Pentagon prosecutors who portrayed him as a member of the al–Qaida leader's inner circle worthy of a life sentence.
Aug 07 2008 - Seattle PI
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba – The conviction of Osama bin Laden's driver by a U.S. military court after a 10–day trial indicates what to expect as dozens more Guantanamo prisoners go to court: shifting charges, secret testimony – and quick verdicts.
Aug 05 2008 - Washington Times
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) | America's first war–crimes trial since World War II went to the jury on Monday as a panel of six U.S. military officers began deliberating whether to send Osama bin Laden's former driver away for life.
Jul 31 2008 - Washington Times
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, CUBA (AP) – A U.S. military judge ruled Thursday that prosecutors can use a disputed interrogation to support their case against a former driver for Osama bin Laden in the first Guantanamo war crimes trial.
Jul 25 2008 - Washington Times
Three U.S. law firms and a public relations company have received millions of dollars from a Middle Eastern organization partly financed by the Kuwaiti government to work for families of Kuwaiti men detained at the U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, public records show.
Jul 23 2008 - Seattle PI
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba –– A former driver for Osama bin Laden knew the target of the fourth hijacked plane on Sept. 11, a prosecutor said Tuesday as he sought to undercut defense arguments that the Guantanamo prisoner was a low–level employee of the terrorist leader.
Jul 22 2008 - Washington Times
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, CUBA (AP) – The judge in the first American war crimes trial since World War II barred evidence that interrogators obtained from Osama bin Laden's driver, ruling he was subjected to "highly coercive" conditions in Afghanistan.
Jul 21 2008 - Washington Times
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, CUBA (AP) – The first war crimes trial at Guantanamo has begun with a not guilty plea from a former driver for Osama bin Laden.
Jul 21 2008 - Washington Times
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, CUBA (AP) – A last–minute plea deal could halt the first war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay on Monday, but military lawyers and observers say that appears extremely unlikely at this late stage.
Jul 18 2008 - Washington Times
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, CUBA (AP) – Salim Hamdan is a small player with a big role. A former driver for Osama bin Laden, he is about to become the first Guantanamo prisoner to be tried for war crimes in a major test of the U.S. system for prosecuting alleged terrorists.
Jul 17 2008 - Washington Times
WASHINGTON (AP) – A federal judge is considering whether to block the first Guantanamo Bay war crimes trial from beginning next week. If he does, it could throw another kink into the Bush administration's legal strategy in the war on terrorism.
Jul 16 2008 - Washington Times
RICHMOND (AP)| The Bush administration has not given the only accused enemy combatant held on U.S. soil an adequate opportunity to challenge his detention, a closely divided federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
Jul 16 2008 - Washington Times
A showdown is looming between the Bush administration and the federal court system over the military's role in prosecuting and trying terrorism suspects detained at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Jul 09 2008 - Washington Times
A federal judge said Tuesday that those Guantanamo detainees who have been held the longest likely will be the first to have their cases heard in U.S. District Court, depending on security concerns and their health.
Jul 01 2008 - Seattle PI
WASHINGTON –– A federal appeals court reviewing evidence at Guantanamo Bay compared a Bush administration legal argument to one made by a hapless, dimwitted character in a 19th–century nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll.
Jul 01 2008 - San Francisco Chronicle
WASHINGTON, (AP) ––The Pentagon said Monday it is charging a Saudi Arabian with "organizing and directing" the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole — and will seek the death penalty
