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The US has indicted Haji Bashir Noorzai, an accused Afghan heroin kingpin, in a massive narcotics conspiracy involving Afghanistan's former Taliban regime . US Attorney David Kelley announced the indictment against Noorzai,...

Getting Away with Torture? Command Responsibility for the U.S. Abuse of Detainees, Human Rights Watch, April 24, 2005 [calling for a special prosecutor to investigate the roles of US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and former CIA director George Tenet...

US government officials disclosed Friday that a German citizen originally detained as a terror suspect was released in May of 2004, on direct orders from then-national security advisor Condoleezza Rice after he had spent five months in...

US military officials are citing a recent overview of information obtained from Guantanamo detainees as evidence that the military should be able to conduct operations at Camp Delta without intervention from the US court system. The unclassified document ,...

A British court Wednesday convicted suspected al Qaeda operative Kamel Bourgass of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance by the use of poisons and/or explosives to cause disruption, fear or injury in a plot to spread ricin [BBC News...

Lawyers for six Guantanamo Bay detainees filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday asking a judge to force the Department of Justice and Department of Defense to comply with their Freedom of Information Act requests for documents,...

Joint Doctrine for Detainee Operations, US Department of Defense, March 23, 2005 [proposed guidelines concerning the detention of enemy combatants extends the status normally reserved for members of al-Qaeda and the Taliban to anyone affiliated with terrorists or terrorist groups...

In a letter sent to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Thursday, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth, slammed the Defense Department's proposed changes to the guidelines concerning the detention of enemy combatants for violating protections outlined...

A German court Wednesday found Tunisian national Ihsan Garnaoui not guilty of charges of founding a terrorist organization and planning bomb attacks against American and Jewish targets in Germany. Garnaoui went on trial last May on allegations...

Updating a Saturday report on JURIST's Paper Chase, US military officials Sunday raised the casualty total from Saturday's late-night attack on the infamous Abu Ghraib prison to 56, including 44 Americans and 12 detainees....