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Two ex-Guantanamo detainees cleared by Algeria court

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Two men who had been held for seven years in the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay on suspicion of belonging to an extremist group were acquitted in an Algerian court on Sunday, state media reported. The two men alleged during their trial in Algeria on terrorism charges that they were "brutally tortured" while in detention in Guantanamo Bay, Algeria's official APS news agency cited court documents as saying. The men were arrested in Pakistan after the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and transferred to Guantanamo Bay where they were held without trial before being sent home to ... Read Full Story

Algeria court acquits 2 former Guantanamo inmates

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An Algerian court on Sunday acquitted two former detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who were returned home to face charges of links to terrorism, their defense lawyer said. Abdelli Faghoul and Terari Mohamed had admitted in court to links with the illegal drug underworld, but denied any connection to foreign terrorist groups, defense lawyer Farid Abbache told The Associated Press. The two men were released from Guantanamo and handed over to Algerian authorities on Aug. 15, 2008 — nearly seven years after they were taken into custody and held without trial, the lawyer said. The defendants traveled to Afghanistan after a decade in Germany, ... Read Full Story

Lawyer: 9/11 defendants want platform for views

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A lawyer for one of five men facing trial for the Sept. 11 attacks says the men plan to plead not guilty and use the trial to express their political views. Attorney Scott Fenstermaker says his client Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali and the others will not deny their role in the 2001 attacks but will tell the jury "why they did it." He says the men will explain "their assessment of American foreign policy." Fenstermaker met with Ali last week at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay. He says the men, including professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, have discussed the trial among themselves. ... Read Full Story

9 11 TERRORISTS WILL FINALLY FACE JUSTICE

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THE ONLY THING TO FEAR IS FEAR ITSELF The Metropolitan Correctional Facility located across from the Federal Court House in Foley Square, Lower Manhattan. (November 17, Foley Square, NYC) The hardest core right wingers, neo-cons and GOP hawks are proving to be what they have long been suspected of being – fear-mongering cowards. Their near apoplectic reactions to the thought of having some of the Guantanamo Base prisoners transported to and incarcerated in American prisons reveal the true colors of these ignorant people and that color is decidedly yellow. For such tough talkers who had been rabidly gung ho to support the Cheney / ... Read Full Story

N.Y. trial of Gitmo detainee holds lessons

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NEW YORK, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- The New York trial of a former Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainee holds lessons for the planned trial of the self-avowed Sept. 11, 2001, mastermind, analysts say. Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, the first former Guantanamo detainee moved to civilian courts, has so far argued successfully to have the secret CIA prisons in which he was allegedly tortured preserved as evidence and has unsuccessfully sought to keep the military lawyers he had in the prison camp, The New York Times reported Monday. The legal decisions made in Ghailani's trial could have a bearing on the controversial move by U.S. Attorney General ... Read Full Story
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Algeria court acquits two former Guantanamo detainees
[JURIST] An Algerian criminal court acquitted former Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees Abdulli Feghoul and Terari Mohamed on Sunday, according to the Algerie Presse Service (APS) [state news website, in French]. Feghoul and Mohamed were repatriated [DOD document, PDF; JURIST report] to Algeria in August 2008 after being held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility for seven years.  
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Gitmo Detainees Intend to Plead Not Guilty in U.S. Court
The five detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay who will soon be brought to the U.S. for trial -- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid bin Attash, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali , Ramzi bin al-Shibh, and Mustafa al-Hawsawi – intend to plead not guilty, an attorney for one of the defendants confirmed to ABC News’s Jason Ryan over the weekend.  
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From Guantanamo Bay Cuba to New York City
Tribute in Light is a temporary light art project in downtown New York City. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sleepyibis/ Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, Waleed bin Attash, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi and Ramzi Binalshibh - Attorney General ...  
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Gitmo Prisoners: Where to Hold Military Tribunals?
The Obama administration plans to close Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and begin prosecutions. So now where will the Gitmo prisoners be transferred and housed? Perhaps to an empty state prison in Thomson, Illinois -- 150 miles west of Chicago.... Continue reading this article, and get more legal news and information, at FindLaw.com.  
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Algeria court acquits 2 former Guantanamo inmates
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — An Algerian court on Sunday acquitted two former detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who were returned home to face charges of links to terrorism, their defense lawyer said.Abdelli Faghoul and Terari Mohamed had admitted in court to links with the ....  
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Judge Says He Won't Hear Cases of Released Guantanamo Detainees
A federal judge last week dismissed suits by four former Guantanamo Bay detainees whose lawyers had continued pressing their habeas cases despite the fact that the men had already been released to other countries. Lawyers for the detainees argued that...  
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Obama Breaks Promise on Shutting Gitmo Down by January 2010
Listen to this segment | the entire program President Barack Obama acknowledged on Wednesday that his administration would not be closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility by January 2010. The previously promised deadline was mandated nearly a year ago as part of a number of executive orders signed by the President [...]  
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