Khalid Sheikh Mohammad: His Pursuit, His Detainment, and His Upcoming Trial
On March 1, 2003, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad was arrested in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, by members of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency and the CIA. It marked the end of one of the lengthiest...
View ArticleWatching and Judging: The Guantanamo Trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
September 11 self-proclaimed mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is on trial before a Guantanamo Bay military tribunal. But by day one the arraignment hearing was already hitting some snags. All of the...
View ArticlePre-Trial Hearing for Khalid Sheik Mohammed Begins Today
Pre-trial hearings start today in the case against five men accused of terrorism, including Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Miami Herald reporter...
View ArticleWhy Guantánamo Shouldn't Be Closed — Yet
At the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, proceedings for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed are underway this week. And with the hearings comes renewed debate about the Guantanamo Bay detention facility...
View ArticleSeptember 11 Terror Trials Will Not Be Held in Manhattan
The accused mastermind behind the September 11 terror attacks and his alleged co-conspirators will not be tried at a federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan and will instead face a military court at...
View ArticleCritics Fear Terror Trial Will Be Compromised at Guantanamo
The Obama administration's decision to move the trial of alleged September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others from federal court in Lower Manhattan to a military tribunal at...
View Article9-11 Trials Back To Guantanamo
Welcome to Politics Bites, where every afternoon at It's A Free Country, we bring you the unmissable quotes from the morning's political conversations on WNYC. Today on the Brian Lehrer Show Carol...
View ArticleDid Torture Lead Us To bin Laden?
Welcome to Politics Bites, where every afternoon at It's A Free Country, we bring you the unmissable quotes from the morning's political conversations on WNYC. Today on the Brian Lehrer Show, Karen...
View ArticleSept. 11 Victims' Families to Watch as Tribunal Hears Case
Family members of those killed in the September 11 terrorist attacks will get the opportunity to watch the arraignment of five men accused of training and funding the hijackers — including alleged...
View ArticleHigh Profile Terror Suspects Arrive in NYC Without Much Fanfare
In 2009, when Attorney General Eric Holder announced plans to try the alleged mastermind behind the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in a civilian court in Lower Manhattan it caused a...
View Article9/11 Families Watch Televised Gitmo Hearings
Families of 9/11 victims and a firefighter began watching the closed-circuit pre-trial hearings at Guantanamo of the five men charged in the terror attacks at at the Fort Hamilton Army Base in Dyker...
View ArticleReporter's Notebook: Inside Guantanamo Bay
Holding the trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed, accused mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, and four other men at the military commission set up at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, has meant limited in person...
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View from Guantanamo: Families of 9/11 Victims Frustrated By Pace of Trials
A new set of pre-trial motions for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the four other men accused of plotting the September 11 terror attacks starts Monday. The five are being tried before a military commission...
View ArticleJudge Angered at Unprompted Interruption at 9/11 Hearing
Defense attorneys raised concerns about whether an external body was monitoring the Military Commission proceedings held at the Expeditionary Legal Compound in Guantanamo Bay Monday in the trial of...
View ArticleAs Defense Makes Its Case, Delays Mount at 9/11 Terror Trial
A major sticking point in this week's pre-trial hearings for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other men accused of plotting the September 11 terror attacks has been how the military commission will...
View Article9/11 Judge: No Third Party Can Cut Courtroom Feed
No third party has the right to suspend the broadcast of the military commission proceedings in the case against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the four men accused of planning the September 11 terror...
View Article16 Years On, 9/11 'Mastermind' and Co-Defendants Still Face Pretrial Hearings
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segmentAnother round of pretrial hearings is underway this week at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The hearings are part of the military...
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