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How Can You Tell Someone Is al-Qaida? Look at His Watch
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsIt's a simple, water-resistant digital watch that retails for about $11. But beware: It could sell you out as al-Qaida. A new batch of WikiLeaks files from Guantanamo Bay reveals a secret checklist U.S. investigators used to figure out whether detainees were really al-Qaida members. Among the criteria was the kind of wristwatch they were wearing. Shiho Fukada, AP The U.S. military says Casio F-91W watches like this one have been used in terrorist bombings by members of al-Qaida, according to Guantanamo Bay files released by WikiLeaks. The U.S. military lists the Casio F-91W model ...
Leaked Files Shed Light on Gitmo Detainees
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Secret documents about detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison reveal new information about some of the men that the United States believes to be terrorists, according to reports about the files released by several American and European newspapers. The U.S. government criticized the publication as "unfortunate." The military detainee assessments were made public Sunday night by U.S. and European newspapers after the WikiLeaks website obtained the files. The records contain details of the more than 700 detainee interrogations and evidence the U.S. had collected against these ...
Obama: Here's Your Change, Sir
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Guantanamo Bay Military Trials to Resume: What Do the Pundits Think?
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsIt was a top priority in his 2008 presidential campaign, but it appears that Barack Obama won't be closing Gitmo anytime soon. The White House announced on Monday that military trials will resume at the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, where a new executive order signed by the president now creates a system in which prisoners could be subject to indefinite detention. Besides reigniting the debate surrounding the legality of military tribunals, the decision will also likely allow the prosecution of Guantanamo detainees such as alleged 9/11 organizer Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who wasn't ...
Opinion: Obama's Gitmo Flip Flop is a Win-Win
By J.D. Gordon - AOL NewsThough no one would have guessed it during his inauguration week over two years ago -- when President Barack Obama boldly ordered the closure of Guantanamo's detention facilities and the immediate suspension of military commissions -- he has just reversed course and lifted the ban on military trials for detainees. And as most would also find surprising, it's actually a win-win for his administration. First, it shows conservatives and independents that Obama is willing to govern from the center. Polls show most Americans support holding al-Qaida and Taliban-linked enemy combatants at ...
Obama Restarts Military Trials at Guantanamo
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama reversed course Monday and ordered a resumption of military trials for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, making his once ironclad promise to close the isolated prison look even more distant. Guantanamo has been a major political and national security headache for the president since he took office promising to close the prison within a year, a deadline that came and went without him ever setting a new one. Obama made the change with clear reluctance, bowing to the reality that Congress' vehement opposition to trying detainees on U.S. soil leaves ...
Afghan Detainee Dies After Exercise at Guantanamo
By not in system - AOL NewsSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- A 48-year-old Afghan prisoner at Guantanamo Bay collapsed and died, apparently from natural causes, after exercising inside the jail, the U.S. military said Thursday. Awal Gul fell in the shower Tuesday night after working out on an elliptical machine in Camp 6, a communal section of the Guantanamo reserved for well-behaved prisoners, said military spokesman Army Col. Scott Malcom. The prisoner was taken to the base hospital, where he later died. Authorities planned to send his remains back to Afghanistan. Gul is the seventh prisoner to die at the detention center ...
Night Ranger Is Ready to Rock, for the Soldiers
By Chris Epting - AOL NewsAt the recent National Association of Music Merchants convention in Anaheim, Calif., the classic rock band Night Ranger took to the stage to the delight of fans and delivered one of its trademark high-energy shows that have delighted fans for almost 30 years. The band, which formed in the early 1980s, saw its first five albums sell more than 10 million copies worldwide. The quintet is probably best known for the power ballad "Sister Christian," which peaked at No. 5 in June 1984. After the show, Night Ranger sat down with AOL News and talked about what lies ahead in the next year. ...
Guantanamo Detainee Gets Life Sentence in Embassy Plot
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- The first, and possibly the last, Guantanamo detainee to have a U.S. civilian trial was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for his role in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Africa, a case that nearly unraveled when the defendant was convicted on just one of more than 280 counts. Ahmed Ghailani, who served as Osama bin Laden's cook and bodyguard after the bombings in Tanzania and Kenya, sought leniency, claiming he was tortured at a secret CIA detention site after his arrest in Pakistan seven years ago. But U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan imposed the maximum sentence, saying ...
Report Bolsters 9/11 Mastermind's Confession to Daniel Pearl Murder
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsKhalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind behind the Sept. 11 terror attacks, beheaded Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, according to a yearslong investigation into his murder. U.S. investigators used vein analysis to confirm that the hand seen on the video of the 2002 execution belongs to Mohammed, a senior al-Qaida operative who confessed to the killing while in American custody but has not been charged with the crime. The findings -- along with a host of other revelations about the reporter's murder -- are the work of The Pearl Project, a three-year investigation that ...
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