Choose quality ▼ Embed code ▼ 10,000 pounds of girl scout cookies made their way to Guantanamo Bay through the Mints for the Military program. Specialist Vanessa Davila shows us the process and tells us when service members will receive the cookies. Also available in high definition Continue reading →

Scheduling conflicts and legal issues might be reasons to split up the military trial of the five Guantánamo men accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks, the Army colonel presiding at the case wrote in a court order made public Monday.Judge James L. Pohl instructed the 9/11 prosecutors to answer him by Thursday on whether separate military juries should hear the death penalty terror trials of alleged mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four accused co-conspirators. Military and Justice Department prosecutors have been preparing a joint prosecution for years. During the Bush administration, the Pentagon built a special courthouse at Guantánamo capable of trying up to six defendants before a single jury. Now the judge has asked the prosecutors whether they want to stick with that ... Continue reading →

NEW YORK (AP) – A federal appeals court has upheld a decision allowing the CIA to withhold a photo of an alleged al-Qaida terrorist after his interrogation. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals made its ruling public on Monday. The American Civil Liberties Union had appealed a lower court judge’s 2010 decision in favor of the Central Intelligence Agency. The judge refused to force the release of information about destroyed videos of Sept. 11 detainees who were interrogated harshly. The ACLU wanted the appeals court to reverse part of the decision. That portion barred the release of a photo of a suspected al-Qaida logistician and facilitator, Zayn al Abdeen Mohammed Hussein, who is known as Abu Zubaydah.The appeals judges say they have seen the ... Continue reading →

The Rendition Project Welcome to The Rendition Project website. This site is the product of a collaborative research project between Dr Ruth Blakeley at the University of Kent and Dr Sam Raphael at Kingston University, funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council. Working closely with Reprieve, a legal action charity which has led the way in investigating secret prisons and representing victims of rendition and torture, the Rendition Project aims to bring together and analyse the huge amount of data on rendition and secret detention in the US-led ‘War on Terror’. In the years after the declaration of the ‘War on Terror’ in September 2001, the United States Government led the way in constructing a global system of detention outside the law, illegal ... Continue reading →

Scheduling conflicts and legal issues might be reasons to split up the military trial of the five Guantánamo men accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks, the Army colonel presiding at the case wrote in a court order made public Monday.Judge James L. Pohl instructed the 9/11 prosecutors to answer him by Thursday on whether separate military juries should hear the death penalty terror trials of alleged mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four accused co-conspirators. Military and Justice Department prosecutors have been preparing a joint prosecution for years. During the Bush administration, the Pentagon built a special courthouse at Guantánamo capable of trying up to six defendants before a single jury. Now the judge has asked the prosecutors whether they want to stick with that ... Continue reading →

1st Class Kryn Westhoven and Sgt. Landis Andrews stand in front of the Camp Justice sign used by TV crews covering the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The trio is part of 444th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment headquartered in Lawrenceville who deployed for a year along with five other New Jersey Army National Guard soldiers serving at the Joint Task Force-Guantanamo. Like so many U.S. citizens, three Army National Guard volunteers from Central New Jersey have a clear recollection of where they were and what they were doing on Sept. 11, 2001. Maj. Jon Powers was coordinating media coverage in Jersey City as the World Trade Center buildings smoldered across the river. Sgt. Landis Andrews, still in high school, was glued to the TV. ... Continue reading →