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In a stunning rebuke, a six-member U.S. military jury Thursday ignored a Pentagon prosecutor's plea for a 30 years-plus term and sentenced Osama bin Laden's driver to 66 months in prison.
Guantánamo waterboarding as a Coney Island sideshow -- that's what one political-minded artist has created on the Brooklyn seashore.
A lawyer for a Guantánamo Bay detainee appealed to Britain's High Court on Friday for the release of secret government documents that he says could raise questions about whether evidence in his client's upcoming trial was obtained by torture.
AT THE WAR COURT
Confessed al Qaeda kingpin Khalid Sheik Mohammed testified on paper Friday in the defense of Osama bin Laden's driver -- and the defense rested in the first U.S. war crimes trial since World War II.
In a day that started in secrecy and ended in secrecy, the Pentagon prosecution got what it wanted: A federal agent testified Thursday that Osama bin Laden's driver confessed here in 2003 that he had sworn a pledge of allegiance to his boss.
A detainee assaulted the Navy admiral in charge of the Guantánamo Bay detention center with a "cocktail" of bodily fluids on a recent tour inside the razor wire, military officials said Thursday.
The military commission hearing the first U.S. war crimes tribunal since World War II took secret testimony on Thursday, a first.
Reputed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed has balked at testifying in person at the trial of Osama bin Laden's driver, defense lawyers said Wednesday. Instead, the jury will get written statements from the al Qaeda kingpin and another alleged plotter in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
Al Qaeda terrorists are the elite of Osama bin Laden's followers, gifted linguists with college degrees plucked from paramilitary training camps -- and don't fit the profile of a Yemeni truck driver with a fourth-grade education, a defense witness testified Wednesday.
Pentagon prosecutors provisionally finished presenting their case against Osama bin Laden's driver at the Guantánamo war court Tuesday, having called 13 witnesses across seven days.
Hijacked jets plunged into the World Trade Center and the towers toppled again and again on a huge flat screen at the Guantánamo war court on Monday -- a graphic, $20,000 made-to-order movie about al Qaeda at the trial of Osama bin Laden's driver.
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Journalists brought in last week by the Pentagon to watch a day or two of the first U.S. war-crimes tribunal since World War II got a ghoulish surprise when they went in search of drinking water at Camp Justice, the tent city where they sleep.
A Qatari man was among three men released over the weekend from the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The others went to Afghanistan and the United Arab Emirate.
In his seventh of month of U.S. captivity, Osama bin Laden's driver told a pair of FBI agents that it was America's fault that the al Qaeda leader is alive.
Soon after Osama bin Laden's driver got here in 2002, he told interrogators the identity of the al Qaeda chief's most senior bodyguard -- then a fellow prison camp detainee. But, inexplicably, the U.S. let the bodyguard go.
The Pentagon opened its first war-crimes prosecution Tuesday with words purportedly from the mouth of Osama bin Laden, a ghoulish postmortem overheard by his driver in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks:
Last month, it was the alleged 9/11 mastermind who censored a Guantánamo war court sketch artist. Tuesday, U.S. Special Forces were the censors.
