A court in Milan convicted 23 ex-CIA agents in absentia for the 2003 “rendition” of Egyptian terror suspect Abu Omar. Local CIA station chief Robert Seldon Lady was sentenced to eight years.
The federal government has agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle the cases of five Muslim immigrants were among hundreds detained without charge for months after 9-11.
A federal appeals court ruled that Canadian citizen Maher Arar cannot sue the US for damages based on his detention and torture in Syria after he was mistakenly identified as a terrorist.
Six Chinese Uighur Guantánamo Bay detainees were transferred to the Republic of Palau, according to the Justice Department. With the transfer, seven Uighurs remain in custody at Guantánamo.
The US Supreme Court agreed to hear Kiyemba v. Obama, in which the court will consider whether a group of 13 Uighur detainees at Guantánamo Bay can be released into the US.
The federal bust of a supposed Israeli spy who actually had no links whatsoever to Israeli agents reflects the infiltrator-driven “terrorism” cases that the media have uncritically hyped.
A panel of the UK’s High Court ruled that US intelligence documents containing details pertinent to torture allegations by former Gitmo detainee Binyam Mohamed should be made public.
Kuwaiti Guantánamo Bay detainee Khaled Al-Mutairi has been returned to his home country, leaving 222 who must be dealt with to meet Obama’s goal of closing the facility.
Human rights group Reprieve announced it is suing the British government over the “rendition” of Mohammed Saad Iqbal Madni from Indonesia to Egypt, where he was tortured for months.
Members of Congress called for an investigation into a secret program to kill al-Qaeda members following revelations that Dick Cheney ordered the CIA to withhold information about the program.
Four Uighurs from Guantánamo Bay have been released in Bermuda where they hailed their new freedom—but the UK reproached its overseas territory, saying it should have been consulted on the move.
The deadly assault on the Holocaust Museum in Washington was presaged a month earlier by a neo-Nazi shooting attack on a group of ex-death camp inmates commemorating their liberation in Austria.
