The self-professed mastermind and four other men charged in the Sept. 11 attacks declared they are "terrorists to the bone" in a statement that mocked the U.S. failure to prevent the killings and predicted America will fall like "the towers on the blessed 9/11 day." ...more

March 10, 2009

A gym, barber shop and planters of plastic flowers: Welcome to the gentler face of the infamous Abu Ghraib prison. ...more

February 22, 2009

The Tribune gave the front page of the Views section on Dec. 6 to the anonymous "Matthew Alexander," who did not use his real name for security reasons. I wondered why. It struck me that Dec. 7 would be the 67th year since the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. ...more

December 10, 2008

The quarrel didn't last long. Angry Sunni fighters temporarily abandoned their checkpoints in a western Baghdad neighborhood after Iraqi soldiers briefly detained some of their colleagues, whose U.S.-backed patrols have helped curb violence. ...more

September 26, 2008

The notorious Abu Ghraib prison is getting a face-lift: work to reopen the facility and construct a museum documenting Saddam Hussein's crimes - but not the abuses committed there by U.S. guards. ...more

September 6, 2008

Three Iraqis and a Jordanian filed federal lawsuits Monday alleging they were tortured by U.S. defense contractors while detained at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2003 and 2004. ...more

July 1, 2008

In the coming months, Brooksville police Sgt. Ed Serrano will still be carrying a gun and wearing a bulletproof vest. ...more

January 29, 2008

In the coming months, Brooksville police Sgt. Ed Serrano will still be carrying a gun and wearing a bulletproof vest. ...more

January 28, 2008

The Army has thrown out the conviction of the only officer court-martialed in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, bringing an end to the four-year investigation and spurring human rights activists to complain of a Pentagon whitewash. ...more

January 11, 2008

At least four top White House lawyers took part in discussions with the CIA between 2003 and 2005 about whether to destroy videotapes showing the secret interrogations of two al-Qaida operatives, according to current and former administration and intelligence officials. ...more

December 19, 2007