Prosecutors want remote testimony for witnesses unable or unwilling to travel to Guantánamo. The defense wants jurors to be told that, guilty or innocent, the defendant will not go free.
Under pressure, the Democratic Senate nominee in Michigan this week rejected Hasan Piker’s argument that the U.S. has caused more terror than Al Qaeda.
The spy agency released dozens of intelligence documents it had sent to Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, outlining what was known about Al Qaeda.
Emergency workers retrieved victims following the 1998 Qaeda attack on the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. A document given to President Bill Clinton five weeks before the bombing outlined the group’s intent to attack America.
A possible expert witness was hurried off a video feed after an emergency alert in Dubai, near the Strait of Hormuz, a flashpoint in the U.S.-Iran war.
Nigerian soldiers training at a military base in Monguno, Nigeria, last year amid a surge in attacks by jihadists. Extremist groups like Boko Haram are turning to A.I. for tactical on-the-ground advantages, highlighting a broader challenge for the A.I. industry.
A detainee at the military prison at Guantánamo Bay in 2019. The case of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks is in its 15th year of pretrial proceedings, with no date set for the trial to begin.
In all, 17 U.S. sailors were killed in the bombing of the Cole by Al Qaeda on Oct. 12, 2000. Family members of victims have sued Iran in federal court and won default judgments. Defense lawyers say they have seen no evidence of a link between Iran and the attack.
Prosecutors have offered up no evidence supporting a link that the president claimed between Iran and the attack in Yemen in 2000, defense lawyers say.
The U.S.S. Cole at a Yemeni harbor in October 2000, more than two weeks after an attack by Al Qaeda suicide bombers killed 17 sailors and wounded dozens of others.
The prison has outlasted the war in Afghanistan, has employed tens of thousands of temporary troops and holds six men charged but not yet tried in death penalty cases.
An abandoned prison camp at Guantánamo Bay. Ali Hamza al-Bahlul, who was sentenced to life in 2008, appeared at the base war court on Thursday in a proceeding concerning the upcoming capital trial of another prisoner.