Court asked to halt Guantanamo trial

Khalid Sheikh, 4 accomplices to be shifted from Gitmo

By: intellectual

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama said the September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be put on trial in New York City. Speaking in Tokyo, Mr. Obama said Mohammed, the self-proclaimed organiser of the al-Qaeda terrorist plot that killed almost 3,000 people in 2001, would face "exacting" US justice....

25 days ago

FACT CHECK: U.S. Prisons and Gitmo Detainees

By: amalgam80

The federal government is considering two maximum security prisons, in Illinois and Michigan, as possible places for Gitmo detainees.   And of course the topic has become political, with both sides spinning and sometimes ignoring facts to politicize the detainee topic.     Here is the AP fact checking the accusations being ...

21 days ago

New Gitmo: Home on the Prairie Where The Jihad Roam

By: AsherKade

A prison in northern Illinois is the leading contender to house detainees transferred from the federal facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, two Obama administration officials told CNN on Saturday. This comes in light of many terrorist detainees being adjudicated and sentenced recently.   The Thomson Prison, outside Chicage, is virtually empty ...

24 days ago

Guantanamo Detainees Finally Stand Before A Judge

By: daltonvette

Washington-The Washington courts closed to the public, dozens of suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo are finally facing the judges and seeking their release, sometimes giving evidence by video from the base in Cuba. In keeping with a Supreme Court ruling last year, 15 federal judges are venting cases of foreign captives held at Guantanamo. ...

20 days ago