Guantánamo

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• Illinois jail lined up to hold Guantánamo detainees

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Super-maximum facility backed by state governor but would need approval of Congress A significant number of the remaining 215 inmates of Guantánamo Bay could be transferred to a maximum-security prison in rural Illinois, according to a source in President Barack Obamas administration. The source described the ...
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• On Democracy Now! Andy Worthington Discusses the Forthcoming 9/11 Trials and “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 556
  by Andy WorthingtonFeatured WriterDandelion Saladwww.andyworthington.co.uk13 November 2009I was delighted to be invited to discuss Guantánamo on Democracy Now! this morning, just an hour after the story first broke that the Obama administration is preparing to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other prisoners to ...
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• 9/11 accused Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to be tried in New York court

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  The Obama administration today ordered that the self-confessed mastermind of the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four others be transferred from Guantánamo Bay to New York to stand trial. The US attorney general, Eric Holder, told a press conference in Washington he would be seeking the death ...
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• Manhattan reaction: Short walk, epic journey from Ground Zero to 9/11 trial

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  The walk from the site of the fallen Twin Towers to the Manhattan courthouse where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four codefendants will now stand trial takes about 15 minutes at a gentle stroll. But it symbolises an epic eight-year journey from 2001s terrorist attacks to the first day in court for those accused of ...
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• A nobler, trickier path to justice for 9/11 | Geoffrey Robertson

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Trial by jury for the September 11 suspects can mean justice is seen to be done. Yet calling for the death penalty is an error The US attorney general, Eric Holder, deserves two cheers for his brave decision to bring the alleged 9/11 conspirators to an open trial in New York rather than to put them through a ...
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• Khalid Sheik Mohammed to Stand Civilian Trial in New York

  
  Corrente — Authority: 623
  The man who claimed to be the 11 Sep 01 strike "mastermind" will go to trial in New York, according to todays NYT. Steps toward keeping the promise to close Gitmo within a year appear to be continuing , despite delays caused by the uproar over what to do with detainees. Associated Press A photograph taken ...
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• New Yorks 9/11 trial justice

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 158
  Putting the 9/11 suspects on trial in New York is the right move - but seeking the death penalty would be a strategic error The decision today by US attorney general Eric Holder to prosecute Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other 9/11 conspirators in a US court is a victory for the rule of law and the American system ...
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• Families of 9/11 victims divided over decision to hold trial in New York

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Some family members accused President Barack Obama of siding against the US while others praised the move The families of September 11 victims were today divided in their reaction to the decision to try the accused plotters in the attacks in a federal court in New York. Among the people most intimately affected by ...
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• US to seek death penalty against 9/11 suspects

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  President Barack Obama today announced that the five suspects will be tried in a civilian court in New York The United States will seek the death penalty against the five men accused of planning the September 11 attacks, who will be tried in a civilian court in New York City just blocks from the site of the World ...
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• Video: Obama promises fair trial for alleged 9/11 mastermind

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  US president says Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be subject to the most exacting demands of justice at his trial in New York
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• Profiles: the 9/11 accused

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi and Walid bin Attash Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Mohammed is a Pakistani raised in Kuwait but educated in America. The US administration claims he masterminded the 11 September 2001 attacks. He was subjected to waterboarding 183 ...
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• Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial poses huge challenges for US judiciary

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  The alleged 9/11 masterminds case will be fraught with difficulty, from security concerns to the selection of an impartial jury to the behaviour of the accused themselves The trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other self-confessed plotters in the 9/11 attacks in New Yorks southern district court – which ...
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• Poll | Should Khalid Sheikh Mohammed face the death penalty?

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 158
  The alleged al-Qaida mastermind of the 9/11 attack, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, is to face trial with four other Guantánamo detainees in a civilian federal court in New York. Should the US justice department seek the death penalty?
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• Obama promises alleged 9/11 mastermind a fair trial

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  President pledges exacting justice for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and co-accused as New York trial is anticipated Barack Obama has pledged that the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks will receive a fair trial ahead of an announcement that the five key suspects will be tried in New York. Obama, who is in Japan as ...
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• Guantánamo Bay detainees to face September 11 trial in New York

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other detainees to be tried in civilian federal court, reports say The alleged September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantánamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York to face trial in a civilian federal court, according to US reports. ...
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• The Itch in Joe Lieberman’s Gitmo Finger

  
  Antiwar.com Blog — Authority: 566
  Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut may be the most destructive politician in the United States. Combining the worst ideas of the right, the left, and the religious, he essentially seeks to punitively tax the world in order to bomb it for the sake of Israel. Despite Lieberman’s “dual” loyalty — in quotes ...
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• Massachusetts Town Says Yes to Guantánamo Detainees

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 551
  The move came Wednesday night in Amherst, Mass., on a voice vote of town meeting members. The town is also now officially on record as urging Congress to lift its ban on moving cleared detainees to the US – and has gone so far as to identify two detainees it would like to welcome to Amherst.Amherst’s resolution to ...
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• Community action on Guantánamo | Ruth Hooke

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 158
  Only public support can overturn a ban on Guantánamo inmates entering the US. The people of Amherst have taken a first step A step has been taken to right the injustices being done to the remaining detainees at the Guantánamo naval base . On 4 November the representative town meeting of Amherst, Massachusetts, ...
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• Justice Denied: Voices from Guantánamo – new ACLU video by Andy Worthington

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 556
  by Andy WorthingtonFeatured WriterDandelion Saladwww.andyworthington.co.uk2 November 2009In summer, ACLU representatives traveled to the UK to interview five former Guantánamo prisoners: Moazzam Begg and Omar Deghayes (both featured in my new film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” co-directed by Polly ...
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• Guantanamo Uighurs land in Palau

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Six Chinese Muslims arrive in tiny Pacific nation that agreed to US resettlement request Six Chinese Muslims newly released from Guantánamo Bay have arrived in the tiny Pacific nation of Palau, which agreed to a US request to resettle them. The Uighurs, in US custody since 2001, were met at the airport in the ...
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