GUANTĂNAMO BAY, Cuba â By the time the CIA delivered Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to the military prison at GuantĂĄnamo Bay in 2006, it had already extracted confessions from him through interrogations that included waterboarding, rectal abuse, sleep deprivation and other forms of torture.
WASHINGTON â He was the âAmerican Talibanâ captured during the invasion of Afghanistan in the fall of 2001. Pictures showed him as a gaunt, filthy, 20-year-old held in the aftermath of a prison uprising that claimed the first U.S. casualty of the war, a 32-year-old CIA officer named Johnny Micheal Spann.
GUANTĂNAMO BAY, Cuba â A federal appeals court Tuesday threw out more than two years of a military tribunal judgeâs decisions in the case of the man accused of plotting the bombing of the destroyer Cole, finding that the jurist wrongly hid his pursuit of an immigration judge job while sitting on the war crimes case.