Watching the Shadows
Harrowing Gitmo memoir published
Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian detained at Guantánamo since August 2002, has had portions of his handwritten prison-camp memoir published in Slate magazine.
Tag: 9-11
Iran
Did Iran shelter Sulaiman Abu Ghaith?
Reports that Obama bin Laden’s co-conspirator and brother-in-law Sulaiman Abu Ghaith was sheltered in Iran could lubricate the war drive—but how credible are they?
Watching the Shadows
Navy lawyers: Gitmo bugs no breach of privilege
Military lawyers asserted that surveillance equipment deployed throughout the Guantánamo Bay detention center was not used to breach attorney-client privilege.
Watching the Shadows
Prison evidence at issue in 9-11 trial
Defense lawyers for the five accused 9-11 conspirators petitioned a US military judge at Guantánamo Bay to preserve the prisons where the defendants were held as evidence.
Watching the Shadows
Conviction of al-Qaeda media director vacated
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit vacated the conspiracy conviction of Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al-Bahlul, former media secretary of Osama bin Laden.
Watching the Shadows
Accused USS Cole bomber boycotts pretrial hearing
Guantánamo Bay detainee Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, accused in the USS Cole bombing, boycotted his pretrial hearing in a military tribunal at the facility.
North Africa
Obama and Romney both fudged facts on Libya
In last night's debate, both Obama and Romney engaged in distortions over the question of when the deadly attack on the consulate in Benghazi was deemed "terrorism."
Afghanistan
US military death toll in Afghanistan hits 2,000
A checkpoint shooting in eastern Afghanistan’s Wardak province brought the US military’s death toll in the war past 2,000. About as many Afghan civilians are killed each year.
Greater Middle East
Will provocateur film derail Arab Spring?
In the wave of protest over a provocateur-produced "film" dissing the Prophet Mohammed, jihadists could be seizing back the initiative from secular revolutionaries in the Arab world.
North Africa
Oops, it actually was kind of ‘interesting’ in Libya and Egypt…
The eleventh 9-11 anniversary saw riots in Libya and Egypt over an Islamophobic film produced by an Israeli-American real-estate developer.
New York City
9-11 at eleven: a boring report from New York City (thank goodness)
The 9-11 commemoration was subdued, with no speechifying by politicians, a good sign that the US is finally moving on. Except, of course, that we remain at war in Afghanistan…
Watching the Shadows
US charges Gitmo detainee with supporting terrorism
The US Department of Defense announced new terrorism charges against a Saudi Guantánamo Bay prisoner accused of plotting with al-Qaeda to blow up oil tankers.