Tag: Khalid Shaikh Mohammed

Judge Rules Out KSM’s 2007 FBI Statements — Here’s What That Actually Means

In January 2007, FBI agents sat down with the man accused of planning the September 11 attacks and questioned him for four days at Guantánamo Bay. Prosecutors wanted to use what he told them...

What was Omar al-Bayoumi doing in San Diego?

Originally published at the San Diego Reader by H G Reza on 7/27/16 Nearly 15 years after the 9/11 attacks, questions linger about a San Diego man’s ties to two Al-Qaeda terrorists he helped settle...

Judge let US secretly destroy CIA ‘black site’ evidence

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- Defense lawyers for the alleged 9/11 plotters said for the first time Sunday that the government destroyed a secret CIA prison with secret permission of the trial judge,...

Guantánamo judge: 9/11 prosecutor’s proposed trial evidence is so far inadequate

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba People wondering when the 9/11 terror trial will actually begin got a new, if somewhat mysterious, metric from the military judge Monday. Army Col. James L. Pohl, the judge, said prosecutors...

Ex-CIA boss admits to BBC Panorama that it tortured

Originally published at BBC News by Hilary Andersson on 8/3/15 The agency's position has always been that the "enhanced interrogation" techniques it used under George W Bush, did not amount to torture, because they were...

U.S. military cancels hearing for September 11 suspects

Originally published at Reuters on 8/16/15 The U.S. military has canceled a pretrial hearing for suspects in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, a military spokesman said on Sunday, in another setback for the government in...
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