Esquire magazine has this lengthy feature on Guantanamo detainee and convicted war criminal Noor Uthman Muhammad. It's a sympathetic account, one that treats Uthman chiefly as a victim. But it contains e...

This is a nice illustration of the fact that in at least some circumstances, the United States simply must use civilian criminal courts if it wants to have its hands on a terrorism-related suspect--not t...

Al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula is working on a ricin attack: WASHINGTON — American counterterrorism officials are increasingly concerned that the most dangerous regional arm of Al Qaeda is trying to p...

The Washington Post is reporting, in what is hardly a surprise, that we shouldn't expect the United States to give up the Bagram detention facility any time soon: BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — The Unite...

Julian Barnes and Evan Perez have an interesting piece today in the Wall Street Journal, suggesting that at least some military officers are increasingly concerned about the lack of a clear option for de...

As Raff notes, the Washington Post has an editorial this week drawing attention to the important case of Ali Mussa Daqduq, the Lebanese Hezbollah commander who entered Iraq to participate in the insurgen...

A grand jury yesterday returned an indictment in the case of Naser Abdo, the guy recently arrested in connection with an alleged bomb plot in relation to Killeen (the same guy who shouted “Major Nidal Ha...

Earlier we posted Ramzi Kassem's criticism of commentary from Ben and Tom Joscelyn concerning the al-Alwi case.  Tom has asked us to share the following response: Ramzi Kassem is bothered by the use of t...

Emerson Begolly pled guilty today, ending what would otherwise likely have been a very interesting First Amendment case involving the constitutionality of charging solicitation based on online incitement...

Habeas laywer David Remes writes in with the following thoughts on Ramadan at Guantanamo: In her story on Ramadan fasting in Guantanamo, which you blogged about on August 6, Carol Rosenberg quoted Navy C...

Professor Ramzi Kassem of CUNY Law, who serves as counsel for GTMO detainee Moath al-Alwi, takes issue with an earlier post on this blog concerning the al-Alwi case.  He has asked us to share the followi...

As you may recall, federal prosecutors in July charged Emerson Begolly with offenses including (i) solicitation based on online posts encouraging readers to attack Americans and (ii) the provision of ins...