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9/11 Mastermind, 4 Alleged Henchmen to Face Military Tribunal
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Yielding to political opposition, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday that 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged henchmen will be referred to military commissions for trial rather than to a civilian federal court in New York. The families of those killed in the Sept. 11 attacks have waited almost a decade for justice, and "it must not be delayed any longer," Holder told a news conference. Holder had announced the earlier plan for trial in New York City in November 2009, but that foundered amid widespread opposition to a civilian court trial, ...
Obama: Here's Your Change, Sir
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Did Carl Paladino Really Say 'F--- Him' About Eric Holder? [VIDEO]
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Oct. 12) -- Another day, another YouTube-generated headache for Carl Paladino. In footage obtained by Jeremy Jacobs of National Journal's Hotline OnCall, the following video, taken at a town hall meeting on March 26 in Tappan, N.Y., appears to portray the tea-party-backed New York gubernatorial candidate uttering the phrase "F--- him" in response to a question regarding U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and the suggestion to hold trials for terrorists in Manhattan. "If you were the chief executive of New York, what would your response be to the attorney general of the United States deciding ...
Osama bin Laden's Former Cook Gets 14 Years in Prison
By Hugh Collins - AOL News(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 ...
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 ...
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