Khalid al-Fawwaz, former aide of Osama bin Laden, was found guilty of plotting the 1998 al-Qaeda bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people.
The US Court of Military Commission Review set aside the terrorism conviction of former Guantánamo detainee David Hicks, finding that "material support" ia not a war crime.
Adel Abdel Bary was convicted in New York of his role in the 1998 African embassy bombings. His extradition had been challenged before the European Court of Human Rights.
World War 4 Report offers its annual annotated assessment of Obama's moves in dismantling, continuing or escalating the apparatus of the Global War on Terrorism.
A group of US senators led by John McCain proposed legislation that would place a moratorium on the release or transfer of prisoners from Guantánamo Bay.
The US sentenced Egyptian-born cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri to life in prison for supporting terrorism. The European Court of Human Rights had earlier barred his extradition.
The convening authority for the Office of Military Commissions overturned the conviction of ex-Gitmo detainee Noor Uthman Muhammed, who has been repatriated to Sudan.
The Defense Department announced that five prisoners at Guantánamo Bay will be released to Kazakhstan, bringing the number of detainees remaining at the facility to 127.
The US Department of Defense repatriated four Guantánamo Bay detainees to Afghanistan, despite restrictions on detainee transfers in the new defense spending bill.
While many in the US seemed shocked by the Senate's torture report, some US media wrote honestly about the "direct line" from torture in Latin America to the post-9-11 version.
"Enhanced interrogation techniques" employed during the Bush administration were "ineffective," finds a long-awaited report by the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
The US Department of Defense released six Guantánamo Bay detainees to Uruguay—days after a UN report criticized the US for non-compliance with the Convention Against Torture.
