Media accounts portray Tarek Mehanna as a dangerous conspirator—but he never actually received “terrorist training” in Yemen, and the texts he apparently translated were al-Qaeda propaganda videos.
Police in Northern Ireland are considering deployment of mini-drones to combat crime and the dissident Republican threat. The unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are small enough to fit into a rucksack and will be used for surveillance.
US prosecutors argued that even if suspected USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri is acquitted by a military tribunal, the US government has the authority to detain him at Guantánamo until the end of the hostilities in the US war on terror.
Lawyers defending detainees at Guantánamo Bay said that Joint Task Force Gitmo staff intercept attorney-client privileged communications, violating the law and making it impossible for them to do their jobs.
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International urged the Canadian government to investigate and arrest former US president George W. Bush for his role in torture, ahead of his travel to an economic summit in British Columbia.
The US Department of Defense has officially referred charges against Guantánamo Bay detainee Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who is accused of having planned the 2000 attack on the USS Cole that left 17 sailors dead and 37 others injured.
US-born purported al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in a drone strike in the Yemeni province of Jawf. The American Civil Liberties Union said the killing was part of a US counter-terrorism program that “violates both US and international law.”
Will the 9-11 “Truthers” give any honest reaction to al-Qaeda’s statement telling Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to stop trying to deprive the terror network of the glory by blaming the attacks on the US government? We’re waiting, guys…
The Obama administration is considering trying Ali Mussa Daqduq, the former leader of Hezbollah who was captured in Iraq, in a military commission on US soil, according to anonymous counter-terrorism officials.
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a 17-year term was not enough for Jose Padilla, convicted on terrorism charges, ordering a new sentence. Padilla himself is suing the US, saying he was illegally detained for over three years on a military base.
Tunisia announced its intention to plead for the return of its remaining citizens being held at Guantánamo Bay. Rights groups say that the fall of the Ben Ali dictatorship means the detainees will no longer be at risk if they are transferred to Tunisia.
The US Court of Military Commission Review rule that Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al-Bahlul, media secretary of Osama bin Laden, was properly convicted of being a propagandist and should spend the rest of this life in prison.
