The Obama administration on Friday dropped the term "enemy combatant" as a label for people held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and increased the legal threshold needed to detain them. ...more

March 14, 2009

OBAMA'S ORDERS •Close the much-maligned Guantanamo facility within a year, a complicated process with many unanswered questions. The administration already has suspended trials for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo for 120 days pending a review of the military tribunals. ...more

January 23, 2009

Nearly seven years after President Bush declared an "extraordinary emergency" that empowered him to bring terrorists before military judges, Osama bin Laden's former driver is slated to go on trial today in the first test of whether that system can dispense fair and impartial justice. ...more

July 21, 2008

At first glance, the son of a Lithia couple looks nothing like what you would expect of an American soldier. He wears long, loose-fitting Arab clothing and a scarf-like head cover, grows facial hair and lives in the California desert in a small Arab village. He stands with Iraqi natives as Arabic calls to prayer can be heard over loudspeakers. ...more

July 9, 2008

On June 23, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia overturned the government's classification of a Guantanamo Bay detainee as an enemy combatant. The court directed the military to release him, to transfer him or hold a new proceeding promptly. This type of legal process is authorized by Congress and the president to afford prisoners adequate due process, yet keep sensitive military matters out of the civilian court system. (As a matter of fact, this ruling contained classified military information, so a sanitized version is now being prepared for public release.) ...more

July 4, 2008

On June 23, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia overturned the government's classification of a Guantanamo Bay detainee as an enemy combatant. ...more

July 3, 2008

A Kuwaiti freed from Guantanamo Bay carried out a suicide car bombing recently in Iraq, the U.S. military said Wednesday, confirming what is believed to be the first such attack by a former detainee at the U.S. military detention center in Cuba. ...more

May 8, 2008

As the federal case against two University of South Florida students moves forward in Tampa, the government is expected to reveal more of what investigators think the pair was up to on a Friday night in early August. ...more

September 8, 2007