authorities both in afghanistan and guantÁnamo. mr.jawad's prison records referred to a suicide attempt, a suicide which he sought to accomplish by banging his head repeatedly against one of his cell walls. the records reflected 112 unexplained moves from cell to cell over a two-week period, an average of eight moves per day for 14 days. mr. jawad had been subjected to a sleep deprivation program known as the "frequent flyer program." i lack the words to express the heartsickness i experienced when i came to understand the pointless, purely gratuitous mistreatment of mr. jawad by my fellow soldiers. it is my opinion, based on my extensive knowledge of the case, that there is no credible evidence or legal basis to justify mr. jawad's detention in u.s. custody or his prosecution by military commission. holding mr. jawad for six years, with no resolution of his case and with no terminus in sight, is something beyond a travesty. six years is long enough for a boy of 16 to serve in virtual solitary confinement in a distant land, for reasons

>> the trial against khalid sheik mohammad and four other suspects in the 9/11 attacks began in guantanamo bay. they appeared in military court for the start of the biggest terror trial in american history. as fox's catherine herage reports, it comes within three years after the government tried to prosecute them in federal court. >> reporter: the five suspects including mohammad not cooperating inside the military court at camp justice and guantanamo bay. another distraction when the codefendant, whose family knew osama bin laden, was strapped to a chair after refusing to come to court. the 9/11 suspects who face seven charges, including conspiracy hijacking and the murder of nearly 3,000 americans changeed. mohammad has a full beard and the others appear to have lost weight. the families travelled to guantanamo to sit in the courtroom. >> i want to see the people that killed my sister face-to- face and that is what you do in america. you go and you face your fight and that is what we do and we bring people to justice. >> reporter: the defense department set up locations at four military

supreme court came along, in a decision, i get them mixed up said, no, guantanamo bay is effectively under u.s. control. pick them up, send them there, they get habeas. that's subtle law. we didn't touch it last year and putting it in last year's bill doesn't do anything. if you couldn't convince them last year based on the law and you're gotting to convince them baup you put it in there one more time mip bill goes out to the substantive problem created in 2001, that the indefinite detention power given to the president is an enormous amount of power. he basically, if he declares someone to be an enemy combatant, can take and hold that person indefinitely and all that person gets in terms of process is the habeas corps us. all habeas corpus is, a minimum finding before a court when they say, do you have the right to hold this person under the law? it does not have any of the due process of the adversarial, the lengthy trial, everything that's contained in the norm's article 3 court constitutional process. it is an enormous amount of power and i think the people that were raising conc

there was a report that a koran had been flushed down a toilet at guantanamo bay. and there were riots in three countries and people were killed. dead. gone. now, a lie can race around the world in 30 seconds. and while the truth is -- i think mark twain said the truth is still pulling its boots on. and what do you have to do? you have to find out, did that happen? we can't lie. terrorists can lie. they have media committees, terrorists do. they sit down and plan media things so that they can have events that advantage them in the world by using the free press and the media. we can't do that, and we don't. but what happened? well, people died. and weeks later "newsweek" magazine, that had carried the report that the koran had been flushed down the toilet at guantanamo, found out the truth, and the truth was it hadn't. it had not happen. it did not exist. and they ran a little thing in "newsweek" that said, oh, to the extent our article was inaccurate, we're sorry. well, sorry? they're dead. i mean, the basic lead in the news business is if it bleeds it leads. and g

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mohammed hussein he's better known as abu zubaida he was the first high value guantanamo detainee he was the first prisoner to be waterboarding the torture program was built around him and the u.s. government claimed for years that he was involved in every major terrorist operation carried out by al qaeda including the nine eleven attacks and they said he was one of the highest ranking members of al qaeda prior to capture of course now over the last ten years however those claims have been increasingly watered down and yet still sits in guantanamo bay today in camp seven a top secret section of the prison and he's never been charged with stories become well known for those following the guantanamo chronicles but our guest tonight has just concluded a fourteen month investigation that shines a light on his brother his shop and despite the fact that he hadn't even seen his brother since he was eleven or twelve years old who lives here in the u.s. has spent two years in prison he's been an f.b.i. informant he's been threatened numerous times deportation and more jail time and he thinks

back during the show goes into great detail about the horrors of his detention in guantanamo bay when he got home to britain he sued the british government for complicity in his ordeal and he reached an out of court financial settlement with the government since then though he and i. have been actively trying to end this practice of detention without trial and are simply arrested during the program talks about what drives him to carry on with his fight seeing guantanamo. charge in the u.k. extradition are all of these things common and you will actually be abused for very specific purposes and all of them i'm convinced used to be involved something was working against these these policies in prisons is this an important voice. almost in the same power that's just a little bit of the program and you can see the whole thing which is being broadcast for the first time on our teaches day don't mess it. on air in about ten minutes in fact tonight now that we round up small world news before the briefer fresh violence in syria as well but he won't people dead today after forces opened fire

the one who was in course who is in prison at guantanamo you know left home when he was eighteen and nobody ever really heard from him again and i have to i have to go on pretty soon especially let me go let me interrupt you just run a minute because we have just a minute left can you just tell us a little bit about what happened when you tried to file a formal request to get more information on his case i know that you know the feds showed up at his door and were wondering why one would want this information which makes it seem makes you wonder why they want to cover it all up. that's sort of what indicated to me that perhaps this was a big a big story i follow freedom of information act request with the f.b.i. we're requesting his documents his case file and that led the f.b.i. to send an agent to his house last august to speak with him to find out what he told me to find out whether i coerced him into signing an authorization form to find out perhaps whether i even bribed him into doing it and the f.b.i. has said they identified about twelve hundred pages of documents i have yet t

, nothing in the military commissions act mentions guantanamo. they are not specific to any particular site. they can be convened somewhere else. they are happening in guantanamo in order for people to understand and can see the proceedings they are being transmitted by closed-circuit television to the continental united states for observation. the same rule applies in the military commission as it does in a court martial of a service member or in federal court. we have the same rule. the public and the media can go in and watch the proceedings but they can't record them. can't take pictures. can you have a sketch artist sketch them but this is a rule we're familiar with in our criminal justice system. it's our way of balancing fair press, fair trial, free press and in some sense national security protection information is how we balance that in our criminal justice system. we don't televice our federal criminal trials or televice military commission proceedings but you can observe them. because it's hard to get to guantanamo, a compensating tran

chris lawrence, our pentagon correspondent, is in guantanamo bay, cuba, watching this all for us. chris, good morning. this was all apparently very frustrating for the judge and the prosecution, and i guess somewhat an embarrassment for all involved, right? >> reporter: you said it, rapid where i. i mean, for everyone involved. for the republicans on one side who had really pushed to get these hearings back from federal court and pushed back down here to military tribunals. this can't be what they imaged if they heard or heard anything about what happened yesterday. and for the obama administration as well. remember, it was president obama and even candidate obama who promised to close the camp at guantanamo bay and move these trials to federal court. what happened yesterday was a stark reminder of the failure of the administration to do so. >> and was there any reaction at all, i'm curious, from the family member as they watched these antics take place? >> reporter: not much. they were in -- they were in the courtroom, and they could see everything that was going on, randy, but t

to prison as the second interviewee hears a man called begg he himself spent some years in guantanamo bay before being released without charge during his detention actually signed a confession which said that he had been prepared to fight alongside al qaida he provided assistance to al qaida members knowing that they could commit terrorist attacks against the u.s. during the program he talks about how he came to sign that confession that's what brought me to the point where i would sign something like this was being tied up with. my legs with a hood placed over my head being punched kicked listing to the sound of a woman screaming next all i'm told is led to believe as my wife my children's pictures being waved in front of me being asked by these interrogators when do you think you're going to see them again what you think happened the night that we took you from the. back during the show goes into great detail about the horrors of his detention in guantanamo bay when he got home to britain he sued the british government for complicity in his ordeal and he reached an out of court fina

but the aftershock from their actions extend far beyond guantanamo. that's where chief legal correspondent jan crawford is tonight. >> reporter: the five 9/11 suspects sat silently taking breaks for scheduled prayers. but the hearing ended late last night with outrage. with family members watching from the back of the courtroom ramzi bin al shieb accused of helping facilitate the attack turned around with a smile and thumbs up. one family member responded to him with an expletive. the exchange captured the family's feelings of rage after watching the suspects sitting in silence. stonewalling the proceedings and refusing to look at the judge or answer his repeated questions. james connell a lawyer for the accused money-man called the respect's courtroom behavior peaceful resistance and said it was deliberate. >> i cannot give you outside information about any strategy. i will tell you that certainly there appeared to be a coordinated strategy. >> reporter: the defense lawyer clashed repeatedly with the judge turning a routine court proceeding into one

focuses on the innocent casualties of america's war on terror including one man managed to get out of guantanamo bay. live from moscow at eight pm here welcome to r.t. i'm kevin now in with our top story for you this the latest outbreak of violence in afghanistan has claimed the lives of nine people as an explosion has rocked a market in the north of the country that attack comes ahead of the next transition phase which will see control of three quarters of the country pass from nato hands to those of afghan security forces all this is a lie and support for the new war is hitting a new low tests or a sitter reports. afghanistan to over two thousand one nato led international military offensive in response to the september eleventh attacks in the u.s. largely backed by international partners more than a decade ago. now after tens of thousands of casualties and hundreds of billions of dollars later. this will not be quick nor easy so one thing that's not keeping pace is support over seventy percent of the population want more troops are the figure is rising in the u.s. sixty three percent last wee

war on terror including the man who was released from guantanamo bay. six pm in moscow i might try as a good to have you with us here on r t our top story the latest outbreak of violence in afghanistan has claimed ninety lives as an explosion in iraq the market in the north of the country the attack came ahead of the next transition phase which will control will see control of three quarters of the country pass hands from nato to the afghan security forces this is the alliance support for the war has hit a new low as artie's tesser cilia reports. afghanistan tuber two thousand and one i made to lead international military offensive in response to the september eleventh attacks in the u.s. largely backed by international partners more than a decade ago. now after tens of thousands of casualties and hundreds of billions of dollars later. this will not be quick nor easy. one thing that's not keeping pace is support over seventy percent of the population want our troops and the figure is rising in the u.s. sixty two percent last. want to see an end to the w

seeing guantanamo seeing him to charge in the u.k.he extradition act you know all of these things common any time you will actually the laws being abused and for very specific purposes and all of them kind of convince me that i used to be involved something was working against these these policies in prisons is this an important voice for muslims assume power. and they also talk about the future so both have visions about what's happened in the middle east and what the u.s. is achieved in its war on terror they say that they don't think that al qaida was ever as powerful or as all the nature of the organization that it's been made out to be by western powers but they say terror is very much still thriving today that's. the united states didn't just bin laden didn't just go off trip they went to nations and they killed tens of thousands of people in the process so bin laden may have come and gone it's irrelevant because those symptoms that bin laden was addressing are still there. that's just a little bit of the program you can see the

the mastermind of the nine eleven attacks has remained silent at a military tribunal hearing at guantanamo bay khalid shaikh muhammad is one of five men appearing to face charges which could carry the death penalty one of his co-defendants was brought to the hearing strapped in a restraint chair for more on what's been happening we go live now to lawyer eric who's in washington d.c. eric just briefly what exactly is happening today i mean what are these proceedings could this be the start of the long awaited trials of the men alleged by the u.s. to be the key figures behind the nine eleven attacks. yes the process is they're attempting to begin a trial process again with the arraignment and didn't go off well there are a number of different concerns raised before they proceed and i think competency issues etc so what they're trying to do is begin the process of trying to move toward a trial pursued him into the future now president obama wanted to abolish the detention and trial system at guantanamo in his last election campaign but here is happening right smack during his second run for t

this week i have to visit his most am big was imprisoned for using guantanamo as an al qaeda suspect after pressure from the u.k. he was released without charge in two thousand and five. together with naseem corish a former corporate lawyer he now campaigns for the war on terror detainees with the organization cage prisons the rule of law and due process essential to their campaign and i want to know how this fits in to be sure real if the muslim people formed a superstate what would the legal system look like. when you were in guantanamo you signed a confession i was armed and prepared to fight alongside the taliban and al qaeda against the u.s. and others and eventually you're treated to tora bora to flee from u.s. forces when our front lines collapsed i knowingly provided comfort and assistance al qaeda members by housing and families distributed ok to propaganda and received to members from terrorist camps knowing that certain trainees could become al-qaeda operatives and commit acts of terrorism against the states. so that. the language. no i don't normally because it sounds lik

one of his guests spent years without trial in guantanamo bay which trial with which prompted the wiki leaks founder to draw parallels with his own situation the mechanism of the u.s. war on terror its victims and beneficiaries coming up next stay with us. i'm julian assange. it is true of wiki leaks where they expose the world secrets these documents belong the united states government being attacked by the powerful united states strongly condemn this going after why do people illegally shoot five hundred days now i've been detained without charge but that hasn't stopped us. today on the quest for revolutionary ideas that can change the world tomorrow. this week i have to visit his nose and big was imprisoned for using guantanamo as an al qaeda suspect after pressure from the u.k. he was released without charge in two thousand and five. together with naseem corish a former corporate lawyer he now campaigns for the war on terror detainees with the organization cage prisons the rule of law and due process is essential to their campaign and i want to know how this fits in to be sure real

during the program talks about what drives him to carry on with his fight scene guantanamo. charge of the u.k. extradition and all of these things common and you will actually be abused for very specific purposes and all of them have been used to be involved something was working against these these policies and. it's an important voice. almost in the same power voice that's just a little bit of the program you can see the whole thing which is being broadcast for the first time on r t h e's day don't miss it. running those who will do so brief now this every late tuesday night in moscow a bomb explosions hit a major problem in eastern syria the area is a current trouble spot the site of an army offensive into regaining villages from rebel control elsewhere in the country at least twenty one people were killed after forces opened fire on a crowd during a un visit to central syria meantime parliamentary election results that have been announced as well state media released the names of the two hundred fifty winning candidates which didn't mention which party they represent or

during the program talks about what drives him to carry on with his fight scene guantanamo. charge in the u.k. extradition and all of these things common any time you will actually the norms being abused and for very specific purposes and all of them under convince me that i used to be involved something was working against these these policies in prisons is this an important voice. for muslims empowering that's just a little bit of the program and you can see the whole thing which is being broadcast for the first time on r.t. cheese day don't miss it. running up more world news for this tuesday night from moscow fresh violence i've learned. today after forces opened fire on a crowd in the central part of the country during a un visit to a car belonging to u.n. monitors was also damaged comes just a month after the ceasefire came into effect meantime syria's announced the results of its parliamentary election state media released the names of the two hundred fifty winning candidates but didn't mention which party they represent or how many votes they received president assad

back during the show goes into great detail about the horrors of his detention in guantanamo bay when he got home to britain he sued the british government for complicity in his ordeal and he reached an out of court financial settlement with the government since then though he and i. have been actively trying to end this practice of detention without trial caressa during the program talks about what drives him to carry on with his fight seeing guantanamo. charge in the u.k. traditionally you know all of these things common and you will actually norms being abused for a specific purpose and all of them convince me that i used to be involved something was working against these these policies in prisons is this an important voice. almost instant power that's just a little bit self the program and you can see the whole thing which is being for the first time on day methods. take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe fresh clashes in syria left these thirty dead just a month after the ceasefire came into effect state troops launched a military assault on the to

i think ksm has said this in guantÁnamo.i don't think he ever worked for him but he worked with him as an independent contractor. i think that khalid sheikh mohammed wanted 10 planes initially, but bin laden said it should be more manageable. there are some parts in the book, and i also wrote a little in the "los angeles times." i might've made reference to a dilbert cartoon because bin laden was meddling in certain he wanted the plot moved up to the summer of 2001. ksm said we want to wait until september because we should wait until congress is back in session. >> and he wanted to do the plot because [inaudible name] was in washington dc that time? >> i think so. there was a lot of pushing back and forth. the bottom line is that khalid sheikh mohammed just bought the plot wasn't ready. like any good manager, he was good at delegating responsibility. he was relying on mohammed atta to give him instructions. >> why did the cia takes a long, and [inaudible name] has a story susskind has a story about [inaudible] let's start w

also at guantanamo 9 family members of victims including this woman whose brother is john was killed at work inside the world trade center. >>> the time the answer for their crimes is here the day of reckoning has come and would come to show we are still here, we will not stop until we see justice. >>> i was in the court room with other members of the media the suspect was just a few feet away. they took prayer brakes. he talked with the other suspects and they seem relaxed and appeared to laugh. gen crawford cbs news guantanamo bay. >>> the railed captive in their beer on for more than a year to tell grads will spend the rest of their lives together. shane bauer and sarah shourd were married today. shane sarah and josh batall were arrested four years ago near the iran border. short was released after 14 months. bauer and football were released after two years. president obama can not swinging he kicked off his reelection campaign with speeches by into key states, ohio and virginia. he wasted no time: after mitt romney. >>> good to be back in ohio. >>> today the president said at thi

. >> reporter: in guantanamo bay it was a difficult day for a military judge and a painful one. accused master find khalik sheikh mohammed were brought into court. charged with killing more than 3,000 people. but mohammed and his co-defendants were defiant, repeatedly refusing to answer the judge's questions or put on a headset to hear what the judge had to say. one of the co-defendants stood up and disrupted the proceedings at one point shouting and suggesting that guantanamo bay were trying to kill him, but the judge moved the case forward and agreed to hear a defense motion to delay the trial for up to a year. meanwhile the defense lawyers held a press conference. >> these men have had years of maltreatment and torture. >> i have viewed scars on his arms, and that we have reason to believe that he has been subjected to mistreatment while in the camps. >> reporter: they suggested that their clients' behave in court was peaceful resistance to what they said was their torture by the u.s. government and an unjust military system. michael isikoff, nbc news, guantanamo bay. >>> and

we are also reminded the administration, the president had promised to close guantanamo bay. that didn't happen. at least, is this awkward for the administration, the timing of this, in an election year? >> well, i mean, it was going to be awkward no matter when it happened. what it really underscores is how complex this situation is, that you have terror defendants that, against whom cases are difficult because of some of the means that they gathered evidence because the trail is so cold, as it were, in terms of the evidence they have against them and because of the political context, which is where do you try them and do you use civilian courts? you've seen what they've already done in a military tribunal, disrupting the proceedings, et cetera. it makes it difficult. and that's why the issue of what to do with these defendants has been so vexing for the previous administration and this administration as well, which is why guantanamo is still open, that it's not altogether clear about how to both offer justice and access to our criminal justice system while also protecting i

during the program talks about what drives him to carry on with his fight scene guantanamo. charge in the u.k. tradition and all of these things common and you will actually be abused for a specific purpose and all of them. used to be involved something was working against these these policies and it was this important voice. almost insane paranoids that's just a little bit of the program and you can see the whole thing which is being broadcast for the first time on our teachers day at eleven thirty g.m.t. don't miss it. for one country may fifteenth is a day of sorrow for roger it's deeply divided people palestinians market is the day israel was born it's referred to as. fear has met with large protests that already has the remarkable story of one woman who has felt pain on both sides. for seven decades hid her secret only now has his muslim mother of seven and grandmother of twenty nine revealed to her family the full truth about her past i need that i didn't want my children to be afraid for me and be part of my grief we hear all the time in a war between jew and arab so

during the program talks about what drives him to carry on with his fight scene guantanamo. charge of the. extradition and all of these things common and you will actually be abused for very specific purposes and all of them have been used to be involved something was working against these these policies in prisons is this an important voice. almost the same power that's just a little bit self the program you can see the whole thing that which is being full of cost for the first time on all day at eleven thirty g.m.t. don't miss it. or stories on analysis at r.t. dot com here's what's a click away right now how the hacker group anonymous could be the most powerful organization on earth berms on lawmakers and that it has access to every classified database in the u.s. and other countries. at our team sits down to speak with afghan president hamid karzai about his own battle country's next phase as nato hands control over the more regions despite a rise in violence the full interview on our t.v. dot com. is. the official. from the. video. and. now in the palm of your. home ind

we begin this saturday night with drama and defiance inside that military courtroom in guantanamo bay. after so many years, five 9/11 defendants, including the so-called mastermind, khalid shaikh mohammed, appearing before a u.s. judge. a group of americans, relatives of 9/11 victims, traveling from the states to watch the long awaited arraignment unfold. 2,976 counts of murder. but just minutes in, those defendants turned a somber moment into a circus. and that's where we start off tonight with abc's t.j. winick. >> reporter: even with their lives on the line, the bearded defendants, dressed in white tunics, refused to cooperate from the get-go, launching a kind of silent protest. defense lawyers argued their anger was over alleged torture during the past eight years. >> i think it would be difficult for a military judge to grant a mistrial in this case when the accused all have the ability to actually participate in the proceedings but yet they're choosing not to. >> reporter: defendant waleed bin attash was brought into the courtroom in a restraint chair. eventually it was removed.

chris lawrence there at guantanamo bay, cuba.escort at the center of the colombian prostitution scandal is spilling all about her night with secret service agents. dania suarez told a colombian radio station the agents involved were, quote, idiots and bought alcohol like it was water and danced on the bar. and she says if she had been a spy or terrorist, she could have easily gotten sensitive information compromising president obama's security. >> translator: of course. at that moment if i had been a member of one of those terrorist gangs, it's obvious that i would have been able to get everything. just like the newspapers say, i put them in checkmate. they're a bunch of fools. they're responsible for obama's security and they still let this happen. i told them, i'm going to call the police so that they would pay me my money. they didn't care. they didn't see the magnitude of the problem, even when being responsible for obama's skurlt. i could have done a thousand other things. >> believe it or not, she says that her reputation a

military base at guantanamo bay, cuba. our chief legal correspondent, jan crawford, is there. >> reporter: khalid sheik mohammed and the four other top 9/11 suspects were in the same courtroom four years ago, and they were defiant. there were repeated outbursts. they said they wanted to plead guilty. well, today, they followed a different strategy: silence. he sat at a table in the front of the courtroom, and again khalid sheikh mohammed, the confessed mastermind of september 11, seemed in charge. captured in pakistan in 2003, today, mohammed, known as k.s.m., is thinner, his bushy beard tinted red. once seated, he said nothing. when military judge james paul asked repeated questions about whether he wanted lawyers and who he wanted to represent him, k.s.m. looked away. paul asked k.s.m. eight questions, and eight times the judge said, "the accused refuses to answer." the other four terror suspects accused of training hijackers or facilitating the 9/11 attacks also remained silent when judge paul questioned them. they kept