Case against Guantanamo detainee for US embassy bombings now non-capital
The US Department of Defense Friday announced the referral of nine terrorism-related charges against Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani , who is accused of involvement in the 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania...
Guantanamo detainee charged in 1998 US African embassy attacks
The US Department of Defense Monday charged Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani with several terrorism-related counts under the Military Commissions Act of 2006 stemming from...
The US government has begun setting up a "tent city" at the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay , Cuba, where the US military plans to hold military tribunals for Guantanamo detainees, officials said...
DOD says 14 'high-value' Guantanamo detainees are 'enemy combatants'
The US Department of Defense (DOD) said Thursday that 14 "high-value" detainees have been designated as enemy combatants based on the recommendations of Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT) . The detainees, including the alleged...
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed , one of the FBI's most wanted terror fugitives, was the target of two US air strikes in Somalia on Monday. Believed to be a member of al-Qaida and to have trained with...
President George W. Bush signed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 Tuesday. The US Congress approved the bill late last month after leaders of the House of Representatives decided to forego the...
Kenyan prosecutors on Tuesday dropped charges against three men for plotting the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi that killed 224 people. The three, Salmin Mohammed Khamis, Mohammed Kubwa Seif and Said Saggar Ahmed,...
A Yemeni appeals court Saturday upheld a death sentence against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri , a Saudi militant suspected of being a close associate of Osama Bin Laden. Nashiri and fellow militant Jamal al-Badawi had received death penalties for...
