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Military Trials for 9/11 Terror Suspects Backed by Big Majority
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyA substantial majority of voters oppose the Obama administration's insistence on trying 9/11 terror suspects in civilian rather than military courts and an even higher percentage believe that the man trained by al-Qaeda to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day should be charged as an enemy combatant rather than being a defendant in a criminal court, according to a Quinnipiac University poll conducted Feb. 2-8. Fifty-nine percent say that the Sept. 11 suspects should be tried in military courts while 35 percent agree with the decision to try them in civilian courts, with 6 percent ...
Obama Faces Challenges on Afghanistan, Terror Trial, Gitmo and Fort Hood
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyThe war in Afghanistan, the killings at Fort Hood, where to try suspected terrorists now at Guantanamo and whether to keep Guantanamo open are posing challenges for President Obama, according to a CBS News poll conducted Nov. 13-16. ...
Military Judge Refuses Obama Request for Trial Delay
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyA military judge overseeing the tribunal of the alleged mastermind of the attack on the USS Cole has denied a request from military prosecutors for a 120-day suspension. President Obama ordered prosecutors to seek delays in all of the military commissions, so that his Administration could review the status of each. But Col. James Pohl would have none of it. In a sharply worded ruling, Pohl rebuked the Obama Administration, and asserted that the military tribunals must proceed."The Commission is unaware of how conducting an arraignment would preclude any option [to alter the process after it's ...
Obama Suspends 9/11 War Crimes Trials; Snubs Victims' Families
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyPresident Barack Obama ordered military prosecutors to seek a 120-day suspension in ongoing military war crimes tribunals at the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay with one of his first official acts as president. A military judge granted the government lawyers' request in two of the trials today, including the trial of five of the conspirators in the September 11th attacks. The suspension is to allow a review of the cases by Administration officials, with the ultimate goal of closing down the detention center, and moving the most dangerous detainees to the mainland United States for ...
9/11 Conspirators to Confess, Force Confrontation with Obama Administration
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe mastermind behind the September 11th attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, along with four of his co-conspirators, announced in open court at the Guantanamo Bay military tribunal yesterday that he will plead guilty to the charges against him. The defendants did not specify which crimes they will plead guilty to, however, leaving military prosecutors, and the incoming Obama administration with a potentially tricky legal decision.The tribunal's rules state that the death penalty can only be applied after a unanimous conviction by a jury. A jury has not yet been seated in Mohammad's trial. That ...
Detainee's Enemy Combatant Status Overturned
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyIn a first of its kind ruling, the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned the detention of a Guantanamo Bay detainee, ordering the government to give him a new hearing or release him. The detainee, Huzaifa Parhat, a Chinese Uighur captured in Afghanistan, has been held at Guantanamo for more than six years on suspicion of joining a Chinese Muslim group and attending an al-Qaeda training camp. The court's ruling was handed down last Friday.Parhat petitioned the D.C. Circuit court under the protocol established by the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which the Supreme ...
Government Seeks to Rewrite Detainee Cases
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyAs the Justice Department struggles to cope with the new realities imposed by the Supreme Court's decision in Boumediene v. Bush and Al-Odah v. United States, which granted terrorist detainees at Guantanamo Bay the right to challenge their detention in federal court, government lawyers are requesting time to prepare new case documents against the detainees. Lawyers representing the detainees cried foul and accused the government of trying to change the evidence against detainees in the middle of the game. "It's sort of an admission that the original returns were defective," said attorney David ...
KSM Faces Tribunal, Charged in 9/11 Plot
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyKalid Sheikh Mohammed, former al-Qaeda operations chief and the alleged mastermind of the September 11th attacks, made is first public appearance today after being captured in Pakistan in 2003. Mohammed was arraigned by a special military war crimes tribunal at the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Four other defendants were arraigned along with Mohammad, Ramzi Bin al-Shibh, Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi, Waleed bin Attash, and Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali. All of the defendants are charged with complicity in the attacks, from selecting the hijackers, to distributing funds used to ...
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