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9/11 guilty pleas delayed after US government objects
The US government has succeeded in temporarily blocking the accused mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks from pleading guilty amid a dispute over the terms of a pre-trial agreement. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two co-defendants reached deals last (...)

10 - 01 - 2025
Brothers leave Gitmo without charge after almost 20 years
Two brothers from Pakistan who were held in the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay for nearly 20 years have been released without charge. Abdul and Mohammed Ahmed Rabbani were arrested in Pakistan in 2002. The Pentagon said Abdul Rabbani operated (...)

24 - 02 - 2023
US releases oldest Gitmo detainee Saif Ullah Paracha
Guantanamo Bay's oldest prisoner has been released to his home country, Pakistan, after almost two decades. Saif Ullah Paracha, 75, was arrested two years after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the US and accused of being an Al-Qaida (...)

29 - 10 - 2022
Judge suspends Gitmo case after Obama's call
A judge on Wednesday quickly granted President Barack Obama's request to suspend the war crimes trial of a young Canadian in what may be the beginning of the end for the Bush administration's system of trying alleged terrorists. The judge, Army (...)

22 - 01 - 2009
9/11 suspects ready to make ‘confessions'
The alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four co-defendants told a military judge Monday they want to immediately confess at their war-crimes tribunal, setting up likely guilty pleas and their possible executions. The five said they (...)

09 - 12 - 2008
Bin Laden's driver gets 66 months
A military jury gave Osama Bin Laden's driver a surprisingly lenient sentence on Thursday, sentencing him to 66 months in jail. The jury found him guilty of providing material support for terrorism, concluding the first US war crimes tribunal since (...)

08 - 08 - 2008
Gitmo inmate tortured by sleep deprivation
An Afghan prisoner suffered significant weight loss and other health problems when the military subjected him to two weeks of sleep deprivation at Guantanamo in 2004, his lawyer said Friday. Mohammed Jawad lost 10 percent of his body weight and (...)

13 - 07 - 2008
Gitmo Saudi vows to continue hunger strike
After almost three years of a hunger strike and force-feeding at Guantanamo, a Saudi detainee said he would persist with his protest until he sets foot in his native land. Certain legal papers obtained by The Associated Press this week give the (...)

26 - 05 - 2008
Al-Darbi refuses to attend Gitmo trial
A relative of a Sept. 11 hijacker said Wednesday he would boycott his upcoming military trial on terrorism charges, calling the US effort to prosecute Guantanamo prisoners a “crime against humanity.” Ahmed Al-Darbi told a military judge he does not (...)

10 - 04 - 2008
Charges against youngest Guantanamo detainee dismissed
A military judge at Guantanamo Bay has dismissed all charges against the youngest detainee to face prosecution here in a surprise ruling described by one observer as a fatal blow to the tribunal system itself. Colonel Peter Brownback ruled that war (...)

05 - 06 - 2007
PAKISTAN TO SEND MISSION TO GUANTANAMO BAY
run prison on terror suspicion, Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao said. Pakistan has constituted a team to assess the plight of Pakistani prisoners in Guantanamo, Sherpao said. The Director General of the Interior Ministry National Crisis (...)

03 - 07 - 2006
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