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New Evidence of Systemic Bias in Guantanamo Trials

Excerpt: Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, continues his analysis of the corrupt command structure of the Military Commissions at Guantanamo, with new information from Maj. David Frakt, one of the Commissions'...

Gitmo Lawyer Quits Over Detainee Case

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - A U.S. military prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay has quit because of what he described as ethical disputes with his superiors, alleging they suppressed evidence that could help clear a young...

Guantanamo Trials' Overseer Reassigned

The Pentagon transferred a controversial senior official involved in overseeing the war-crimes trials at Guantanamo Bay into a new position yesterday, a move that was anticipated after military judges in three separate...

Fannie and Freddie: why the takeover

Treasury said Sunday the mortgage giants will enter a conservatorship. By By taking control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Bush administration has launched a high-stakes bid to bolster the housing market and the US...

Guantanamo general slams bullying, 'spray and pray' approach

Gen Zanetti accuses Gen Hartmann of having 'abusive and unprofessional' behaviour. A US general on Wednesday accused another general of bullying and having a "spray and pray" approach to detainees at the US military base at...

General barred from new Gitmo trial

Pentagon adviser to tribunals compromised his objectivity, judge rules GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - A military judge on Thursday barred a Pentagon official from taking part in a second war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay,...

Khadr team wants confessions expert to testify

Tactic seen as measure to test military commission's willingness to grant requests based on defendant's youth OMAR EL AKKAD From Thursday's Globe and Mail GUATANAMO BAY, CUBA — Omar Khadr's defence team pushed the U.S. military...

Witness 'compromised his objectivity' in Khadr case, court rules

In a decision that could have an impact on the war crimes case against Canadian Omar Khadr, a military commission judge in a separate case ruled Thursday that a Pentagon general charged with overseeing all war crimes tribunals...

Khadr lawyers demand independent psych assessment

OMAR EL AKKAD Globe and Mail Update GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, CubaOmar Khadr's pretrial hearings at Guantanamo Bay resumed Wednesday with the Canadian's defence team once again testing the extent to which the military...

Former bin Laden driver gets light sentence

A prisonerconvicted at the first Guantanamo war crimes trial will be eligible for release in less than five months after receiving a surprisingly light sentence repudiating Pentagon prosecutors. The victory for Salim Hamdan, a...

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