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Published: 08/12/10

Osama bin Laden's Former Cook Gets 14 Years in Prison

By  Hugh Collins - AOL News
Osama bin Laden's Former Cook Gets 14 Years in Prison

(Aug. 12) -- A U.S. military tribunal sentenced Osama bin Laden's former cook to 14 years in prison for conspiring with al-Qaida and providing material support for terrorism, but he could be released much sooner. Ibrahim al-Qosi, 50, pleaded guilty last month in a war crimes court. He has been held at the detention center at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for more than eight years. Al-Qosi admitted he knew that al-Qaida was a terrorist group when he ran a kitchen at bin Laden's Star of Jihad compound in Afghanistan. Janet Hamlin, MCT A sketch depicts Ibrahim al-Qosi, 50, at ...

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Published: 08/9/10

Gitmo Detainee to Avoid Solitary in Plea Deal

By  not in system - AOL News
Gitmo Detainee to Avoid Solitary in Plea Deal

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Aug. 9) -- A former cook and driver for Osama bin Laden will serve out his sentence in a section of Guantanamo reserved for the best-behaved detainees under a plea agreement that also keeps the length of his confinement secret for now, military attorneys said Monday. Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al-Qosi, one of Guantanamo's longest-held prisoners, avoided a possible life sentence by striking a plea deal last month that also secured the first war-crimes conviction under President Barack Obama. The military judge presiding over the case initially said Monday that ...

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Published: 07/21/10

No Charges Filed in Bush-Era Firing of David Iglesias, Other U.S. Attorneys

By  Christopher Weber - Politics Daily
No Charges Filed in Bush-Era Firing of David Iglesias, Other U.S. Attorneys

Prosecutors have declined to file charges against members of George W. Bush's Justice Department in the firing of U.S. attorneys in 2006, saying while the actions were inappropriately political, they were not criminal. Ending a two-year investigation, the current Justice Department said Wednesday there was insufficient evidence to charge anyone criminally in the dismissal of New Mexico's David Iglesias and eight other U.S. attorneys, The Associated Press reported. "Evidence did not demonstrate that any prosecutable criminal offense was committed with regard to the removal of David Iglesias," ...

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Published: 08/14/09

Is Karl Rove a Liar?

By  David Corn - Politics Daily
Is Karl Rove a Liar?

Is Karl Rove a liar who should be drummed out of polite society -- or, at least, the politerati? The issue is not his conservative ideology or the still-resonating misdeeds and mistakes of the Bush presidency he made possible. The question is whether new evidence proves that Rove is a serial fibber who cannot be taken at his word. This week, the House Judiciary Committee released interviews with Rove and Harriet Miers, the former Bush White House counsel, and 5,400 pages of e-mails related to the Bush administration's controversial firing of several U.S. attorneys. Rove and other Bush ...

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