reuters.com - 1/8/2009
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GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - A U.S. military judge on Wednesday indefinitely delayed the January trial of a young Afghan captive, leaving the future course of justice at the Guantanamo prison camp in the hands of President-elect Barack Obama. Defendant Mohammed Jawad had been ...
washingtonpost.com - 1/14/2009
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Guantanamo Bay Articles Pentagon: More Former Guantanamo Detainees
Returning to Battlefield (Voice of America) 1/14/2009 5:58:00 AM...
9/11 suspect 'was tortured', Pentagon official admits (London Times) 1/14/2009 3:27:29 AM Pentagon: Freed terror ...
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reuters.com - 1/14/2009
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Tuesday
that 61 former detainees from its military prison camp...
at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, appear to have returned to terrorism since their release from custody. Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said 18 former ...
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Pentagon: 61 ex-Guantanamo inmates return to ...
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Andy Worthington: The Dying Days of the Guantanamo Trials
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Just two days after the last appearance of the KSM circus, when most of the reporters had gone home, Army Col. Stephen Henley, the judge in Mohamed Jawad's case, "indefinitely delayed" Jawad's trial, as Jane Sutton explained. The trial had been scheduled to begin on January 5, but Henley gave the prosecution an unspecified amount of time to work out how to appeal his earlier decision to exclude the confession obtained by the Afghan authorities shortly after Jawad's capture in Kabul in December 2002, because it was "obtained through death threats that constituted torture," and ...
The Dying Days of the Guantanamo Trials
Antiwar.com Original —
... received a life sentence ostensibly to be served in Guantánamo in total isolation after a one-sided show trial in which, under the Commissions' deeply flawed rules, he had been allowed to mount no defense whatsoever. Derailing the cases of Mohamed Jawad and Omar Khadr J ust two days after the last appearance of the KSM circus, when most of the reporters had gone home, Army Col. Stephen Henley, the judge in Mohamed Jawad's case, "indefinitely delayed" Jawad's trial, as Jane Sutton explained. The trial had been scheduled to begin on January 5, but Henley gave the ...
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