Fox News.. Published April 26, 2011| Associated Press . WASHINGTON — Classified military files obtained by the WikiLeaks website reveal a range of potential Al Qaeda plots against the United States, including post-9/11 aircraft attacks on the West Coast, The New York Times reported Monday.
The schemes — none of which were executed — are described in U.S. military assessments of terrorism suspects being held at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Those detainees include Khalid...Read Full Story
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Since May 2009, when President Obama first bowed to Republican pressure on national security issues, and abandoned a plan by White House Counsel Greg Craig to rehouse on the US mainland a couple of cleared prisoners at Guantánamo who were at risk of torture if repatriated, it has been apparent that no principles are sufficiently important to the administration that officials won’t jettison them the moment...Read Full Story
Contributor: "Lucilla" Five things in the media have got me wondering about a false flag event in Europe: Wikileaks: Al-Qaeda plotted chemical and nuclear attack on the West Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the al-Qaeda mastermind currently facing trial in America over the 9/11 atrocities, was involved in a range of plans including attacks on US nuclear plants and a “nuclear hellstorm” plot in America. Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-Qaeda links Mr al-Hasidi admitted he had earlier...Read Full Story
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In late May, two Iraqi nationals, who were in the U.S. legally, were arrested in Kentucky and indicted on a variety of Terrorism crimes . In The Washington Post today, GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — writing under the headline: “Guantanamo is the place to try terrorists” – castigates Attorney General Eric Holder for planning to try the two defendants in a civilian court on U.S. soil rather than shipping them to Guantanamo.
To make his case, the...Read Full Story
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In late May, two Iraqi nationals, who were in the U.S. legally, were arrested in Kentucky and indicted on a variety of Terrorism crimes . In The Washington Post today, GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — writing under the headline: “Guantanamo is the place to try terrorists” – castigates Attorney General Eric Holder for planning to try the two defendants in a civilian court on U.S. soil rather than shipping them to Guantanamo.
To make his case, the war-loving...Read Full Story
The British journalist William Shawcross — whose father, Hartley, was the chief British prosecutor ... and appointed an able new prosecutor, Brig. Gen. Mark S. Martins. After a failed attempt to try Mohammed in a civilian court, the Obama ...
The lawyers were asking for more time to file memos on why Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his alleged co-conspirators should not be tried in a capital case.
The prisoner surrounded by cowardly men covering their faces, looked at the camera and said, "My father is Jewish, my mother is Jewish, I am Jewish." just before Khalid Sheikh Mohammed brutally hacked his head off in front of the whole world. Today, ten years after that horrific day, the memory of how Daniel Pearl was murdered still resonates in the hearts of many people in this country. Pearl was lured into his capture for one reason, he...
The detention and interrogation facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which I have visited, has served and continues to serve an important role in the war against terrorists since it opened 10 years ago. It houses high-value terrorist detainees, like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of September 11.
Ten years after President George W. Bush opened the Guantanamo Bay ... its gates in its decade of existence -- ranging from 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to individuals like Mustafa Ait Idr, who appeared to be at the wrong place ...
In an abrupt reversal of previous attempts to defend themselves, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four co-defendants indicated to a judge in Guantánamo Bay they want to plead guilty. The move is being seen as an apparent attempt to push through their ...
11 case are expected to be arraigned at the base in 2012 in what would be the most high-profile U.S. war crimes tribunal since the World War II era. The five, including the self-proclaimed mastermind of the attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed ...
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed admitted responsibility for planning the Sept. 11 attacks and a host of other terrorist activities, according to a transcript of a hearing released by the U.S. Defense Department.
Mohammed, identified by the 9/11 commission as the ``principal architect'' of the Sept. 11 attacks, made the admissions during a March 10...more
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed admitted responsibility for planning the Sept. 11 attacks and a host of other terrorist activities, according to a transcript of a hearing released by the U.S. Defense Department.
Mohammed, identified by the 9/11 commission as the ``principal architect'' of the Sept. 11 attacks, made the admissions during a March 10 hearing at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (Arabic: خالد شيخ محمد; also transliterated as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, et al., commonly referred to as KSM and also known by as many as twenty
Feds say the al-Qaeda planner has given his interrogators the names of several key members of his ... Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a suspected al Qaeda terrorist, was arrested at a house in Rawalpindi ...
Information about the Federal Bureau of Investigation's efforts to locate fugitives and missing ... Law enforcement officials are seeking information which will lead to the identification and arre
Reuters - Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said a three-member panel examined the case of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed at a closed hearing on Saturday at the U.S. military prison camp on Cuba. Mohammed is a