by Oyin Falana & Ricky Zipp | Dec 4, 2017 | Featured, GITMO
GUANTANAMO BAY — The 26th round of pre-trial hearings for Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the accused orchestrator of the Sept 11th attack, and four other accused conspirators will begin Monday at U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay. Attorneys for Ammar al Baluchi,...
by Samuel Fiske and Sean Froelich | Oct 29, 2015 | GITMO
FORT MEADE, Md.– A military judge denied a Guantanamo detainee’s attempt Thursday to remove his defense counsel, ending two weeks of legal sparring that derailed the trial of accused 9/11 plotters. Col. Judge James Pohl ruled that Walid bin Attash, suspected of...
by Samuel Fiske and Sean Froelich | Oct 27, 2015 | GITMO
After years of delay, the pre-trial hearing for the five Guantanamo Bay detainees alleged to have plotted the 9/11 terrorist attacks finally began — and was immediately stymied by a series of questions about classified evidence and defendants’ rights. Though the...
by Sean Froelich | Oct 26, 2015 | GITMO
FORT MEADE, Md. — A military judge on Monday ended a longstanding dispute over whether government informants were secretly planted on defense teams representing the alleged plotters of the 9/11 attacks. Col. James Pohl ruled that there was no actual or potential...
by Samuel Fiske and Sean Froelich | Oct 19, 2015 | GITMO, National Security
FORT MEADE, Md.—The pretrial hearing at Guantanamo Bay against the alleged architects of the 9/11 attacks were abruptly halted Monday after only about 10 minutes when one of the defendants indicated he wants to represent himself rather than have an attorney. Yemeni...
by Ezra Kaplan | Aug 13, 2015 | GITMO, National Security
NAVAL STATION GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA – The U.S. may have opened an embassy in Havana, Cuba, but 500 miles away at the Guantanamo Bay naval base you wouldn’t know that anything had changed. Guantanamo Bay, with its small-town feel, is a major naval base as well as home...
