The Miami Herald has obtained under the Freedom of Information Act the list of dispositions for Guantanamo detainees from the Obama administration’s Guantanamo task force. Here’s Carol Rosenberg’s story on the subject:
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba – The
A good discussion on WHYY’s Radio Times of current goings on at Guantanamo Bay—with Carol Rosenberg of the Miami Herald, David Frakt of University of Pittsburgh Law School, and me.
In case you missed it: on March 15, attorneys for the Miami Herald’s Carol Rosenberg filed this FOIA action against the Department of Defense (h/t Legal Times). Rosenberg’s complaint begins as follows:
1. This is an action under the
Reported on Friday by the Miami Herald’s Carol Rosenberg: defense attorneys in United States v. Al-Nashiri filed a renewed motion to dismiss the conspiracy charge against their client. At the same time, the lawyers reactivated an earlier request to throw … Read more »
The European Court of Human Rights (“ECHR”) today held that Macedonia had violated the rights of Khaled El-Masri. In 2003 El-Masri, a German national, was confused for a similarly-named terrorism suspect, and then, among other things, allegedly taken to Afghanistan—where … Read more »
Earlier today, numerous Israeli English-language media outlets (Times of Israel, Haaretz) picked up Bulgarian news stories that identified the Bulgarian suicide bomber as Mehdi Ghezali, a 33-year old Swede who was held at Guantanamo Bay from 2002 … Read more »
Another development in commissions-land, apart from al-Qosi’s completion of his sentence and landing back in Sudan: the Miami Herald’s Carol Rosenberg also informs us (and the docket shows) that the 9/11 defendants wish to postpone their upcoming, August-12 hearing … Read more »
That’s the word from The Miami Herald’s Carol Rosenberg. She also reports that the sworn-but-never-referred military commission charges against Faiz al Kandari, one of two Kuwaitis still held at Guantanamo, were dismissed without prejudice today.… Read more »
According to the Miami Herald’s Carol Rosenberg, only three of the 9/11 defendants weighed in on the question, put to the prosecution by Judge James Pohl, of why the men should not be tried separately.
Rosenberg reports that only … Read more »
So reports Carol Rosenberg of the Miami Herald: Judge Pohl has set another hearing in United States v. Mohammed et al for September 8-12 – a date range that, obviously, includes the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
That’s two hearings … Read more »
Raffaela linked earlier today to the Weekly Standard article in which the new military commissions chief prosecutor, Brig. General Mark Martins, announced some important new steps towards transparency in commission trials. The point appears in passing in what is really … Read more »
The Miami Herald’s Carol Rosenberg has a fascinating story about Guantanamo detainees violating the Ramadan fast rules:
With the vast majority of the prisoners at Guantánamo now marking their 10th Ramadan in a row behind the razor wire, the military
Carol Rosenberg at the Miami Herald reported the other day that lawyers for accused USS Cole bombing suspect Abd al Rahim al Nashiri had asked the convening authority of the military commissions to take the death penalty off the table … Read more »
Carol Rosenberg of the Miami Herald has this very interesting story about the death that occurred at Guantanamo the other day. There seems to be a much greater dispute about who this detainee really was than about whether he was … Read more »
This press release story in the Miami Herald announces that the British advocacy group, Reprieve, is in the midst of developing a litigation strategy designed to stop the United States from conducting drone strikes in Pakistan. That in itself … Read more »
The Miami Herald has posted several interesting documents from the proceedings of Omar Khadr’s military commission. The most interesting for Lawfare readers are likely the plea bargain and a pair of diplomatic notes exchanged between the United States and Canada, … Read more »
The Miami Herald has posted Omar Khadr’s stipulation of fact. Worth a read.… Read more »
In a recent article in the Miami Herald, Carol Rosenberg noted that the government has prevailed on the merits in three straight GTMO habeas proceedings and offered perspectives on what this might signify. Could it be a change in the … Read more »
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Carol Rosenberg wrote about yesterday’s arguments in the 9/11 hearings on defense counsel’s request for access to the Red Cross’s reports of its interviews with the five accused. That’s in the Miami Herald.
Yesterday’s House intelligence committee hearing with top intelligence agency and DOJ officials drew a big crowd and much news: Wired explains the DOJ’s efforts to conceal the NSA’s role… Read more »
