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Unsealed NY Indictment Reveals Case Against 5 Men

NEW YORK -- The details of the criminal charges against the self-professed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four other defendants became moot for a civilian jury when they were finally made public Monday, just as Attorney General Eric Holder was announcing the men will be prosecuted at a military tribunal instead of...

Opinion: What Happens to Guantanamo, KSM Now?

(Nov. 9) -- If President Barack Obama thought emptying Guantanamo and trying terrorists in civilian courts was tough before, he hasn't seen anything yet. In one of the first acts of his new administration, President Barack Obama signed an executive order calling for closing the much ballyhooed detention center at...

Remember How Obama Promised to Close Guantanamo Bay?

(Sept. 24) -- What should be done about Gitmo? In a long review of three publications on the subject for The New York Review of Books, David Cole ponders this continually vexing question. Allegedly conceived, Cole writes, as a "hole into which suspects would for all practical purposes disappear, never to be heard from...

Opinion: After 9/11 -- Whatever Happened to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?

(Sept. 10) -- As the country approaches the ninth anniversary of 9/11, the news is all about a proposed mosque near ground zero, a Quran-burning Florida pastor and rising tensions generally in the country when it comes to Muslims. But strangely absent has been any talk about one of the key masterminds behind that...

AP: New Al-Qaida Leader Knows US All Too Well

MIAMI (Aug. 6) -- A suspected al-Qaida operative who lived for more than 15 years in the U.S. has become chief of the terror network's global operations, the FBI says, marking the first time a leader so intimately familiar with American society has been placed in charge of planning attacks. Adnan Shukrijumah, 35, has...