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The military jury's verdict in the Guantanamo Bay trial of Osama bin Laden's driver is in: he has been found not guilty in the more serious count of conspiracy to aid terror, and guilty of material support of terrorism. The sentencing phase of the trial begins this afternoon. The prosecution's case did not prove that he intended to do harm, but that he aided the al Qaeda network in accomplishing acts that caused harm.
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"If the detainee dies, you're doing it wrong." So says John Fredman, then chief counsel to the CIA's counter-terrorism center, explaining in minutes of a 2002 meeting released yesterday, concluding that torture "is basically subject to perception". The minutes were released in conjunction with the Senate Armed Services Committee investigation into the origins of harsh interrogation tactics used on prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib.
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Rice Denies Rights Abuses at Guantanamo Bay It's a big day for Condoleezza Rice news. According to the AP: "Rice denied any claim of human rights abuses at Guantanamo, although she reiterated the Bush administration's desire to close the detention facility as soon as possible. Her comments came a day after Iceland's parliament adopted a resolution condemning abuses at Guantanamo and calling for its immediate closure.
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Report: US Soldiers Did "Dirty Work" For Chinese Interrogators US military personnel at Guantanamo Bay allegedly softened up detainees at the request of Chinese intelligence officials who had come to the island facility to interrogate the men — or they allowed the Chinese to dole out the treatment themselves, according to claims in a new government report.
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WaPo To Run Explosive Series on Immigrant Detention Program
The Washington Post is set to roll out a major investigative series by by prizewinning reporters Dana Priest and Amy Goldstein, this time centering on the hot-button issue of immigration. The upcoming series will revisit a past topic — the United State's detention program. But instead of looking at terrorist suspects being sent to Guantanamo Bay, the Post is now exploring the government's detention of undocumented immigrants, presumably by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Former Guantanamo Detainee Takes Part in Iraq Suicide Bombing
A Kuwaiti man who complained about maltreatment during a three-year stay in the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was involved in a deadly suicide bombing in northern Iraq last month, the US military confirmed yesterday. Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi, 29, who the US military accused of fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan and wanting to kill Americans, was involved in one of three suicide bombings that killed seven Iraqi security forces in Mosul on April 26, Defense Department officials said.
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