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Washington (AFP) - A proposal to allow alleged perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks to plead guilty and avoid the death penalty poses a powerful dilemma for victims' families, some of whom still want to seek the ultimate retribution after two decades of legal limbo. The proposal detailed by prosecutors in a letter this month could offer families of the nearly 3,000 victims the best path to a resolution of a case bogged down in pre-trial maneuverings in the Guantanamo military commissions for years -- and with no end in sight. For some families of those killed in New York's World Trade Center, the ...
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Kabul (AFP) - One of the last Afghan detainees held inside the Guantanamo Bay US detention centre in Cuba has been freed after 15 years following negotiations with Washington, his family and Taliban authorities said Friday. The secretive prison once housed hundreds of suspected militants captured by US forces during America's "war on terror", many held without charge or the legal power to challenge their detention. US authorities faced accusations of torture and abuse against prisoners at the facility, with some allegedly held in cages and subjected to illegal interrogation techniques. Most of...
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Washington (AFP) - Five men charged in the September 11, 2001 attacks, including alleged "mastermind" Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, are in plea negotiations to resolve the longstanding capital case, defense attorneys confirmed Tuesday. Lawyers for the five, each held for more than 15 years at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have entered into talks with prosecutors in the high-security military court "over proposed dispositions of the case," said attorneys for one defendant, Ammar al Baluchi. "I can confirm that plea negotiations are ongoing and that the scheduled hearing this month was ca...
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Washington (AFP) - American authorities have recommended releasing a mentally ill inmate from Guantanamo Bay and repatriating him to Saudi Arabia, according to a government document published Friday. Suspected of being Al Qaeda's intended 20th hijacker for the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States, Mohammed al-Qahtani was tortured by interrogators at the US military base in Cuba where he has been detained for nearly two decades. The government dropped its case against him in 2008 due to the abuse he experienced at the prison. The detention of al-Qahtani is "no longer necessa...
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Washington (AFP) - The US government has approved the release of five more prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay military prison, according to documents posted online this week by the Defense Department. Three of the five detainees were from Yemen, one was from Somalia, and the fifth from Kenya. They have spent a collective 85 years in the prison opened two decades ago for so-called "war on terror" detainees in the wake of the September 11, 2001 Al Qaeda attack on the United States. Never charged, detainees now approved for release -- decided after case reviews in November and December -- total 1...
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Washington (AFP) - The US government has approved the release of two more of the 39 wartime detainees held for years at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to rulings posted by the Pentagon. Yemeni Sanad Yislam al-Kazimi and Afghanistan native Assadullah Haroon Gul, known as Haroon al-Afghani, both won approval for their release on October 7, documents posted by the Guantanamo Periodic Review Board said. Kazimi, 51, who was a low-level bodyguard for Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, has been in Guantanamo for 17 years. Kazimi was detained in Dubai in November 2002 and hande...
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Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba) (AFP) - Under clear Caribbean skies, family members of victims of the September 11 attacks gathered Saturday for a flag-raising ceremony at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, acutely aware that the attacks' accused mastermind sat in a prison cell not far away. "On this naval installation, more than any other place in the world, we remember this every day," base commander Captain Samuel White said at a chapel service for the attacks' 20th anniversary after the flag ceremony. Guantanamo is where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others have faced prosecutio...
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Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba) (AFP) - A woman whose fireman brother died in the 9/11 attacks expressed frustration at the lack of a resolution in the nine-year-old trial of the perpetrators, but said she was hopeful for eventual justice. Elizabeth Berry was spending the 20th anniversary of the attacks at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the US military is still in the pretrial phase of prosecution of 9/11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and five others. The hearings just resumed Tuesday after an 18 month delay due to the coronavirus. Berry told journalists Friday that she c...
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Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba) (AFP) - Twenty years after the September 11 attacks, the US "war on terror" is still being fought on a piece of hilly scrubland in southeast Cuba known as Guantanamo Bay. Within months of the attacks, the United States rounded up hundreds of people with suspected ties to perpetrator Al-Qaeda and dropped them in the US naval base. They were labeled "enemy combatants" without rights; the only timeframe for their release, if ever, said then-vice president Dick Cheney, was "the end of the war on terror" -- which, officially, is still ongoing. Now, most of the 780 s...
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Washington (AFP) - Democratic lawmakers called on US President Joe Biden Thursday to immediately shut down the Guantanamo prison and either release or place on trial in federal courts the 39 remaining "war on terror" detainees there. With the United States approaching the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, 75 lawmakers signed a letter saying the US Navy-run prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba was in disrepair, costly and a two-decade-old human rights embarrassment to the country. The prison has become a symbol of the excesses in the "war on terror" launched after the 2001 attacks. "The p...
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