Read more enemy combatants stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/2858/enemy-combatants.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 8:03:34 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/59724/easy-to-find-middle-ground-on-gitmo-klein.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagLawyers and soldiers are divided on how to deal with enemy combatants, but “it shouldn’t be too hard to find a middle ground,” writes Joe Klein in Time , because both arguments “are being made by unappealing extremists.” It’s unrealistic to try detainees in open civilian courts, as the ACLU wants,...http://www.newser.com/story/59724/easy-to-find-middle-ground-on-gitmo-klein.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 21 May 2009 10:20:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/57703/al-qaeda-agent-pleads-guilty-to-supporting-terrorism.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn al-Qaeda sleeper agent who entered the country the day before the 9/11 attacks pleaded guilty to supporting terrorism in federal court today and faces 15 years in prison, the Peoria Journal Star reports. The government says Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, who had been designated an "enemy combatant" and detained...http://www.newser.com/story/57703/al-qaeda-agent-pleads-guilty-to-supporting-terrorism.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 30 Apr 2009 18:29:10 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/55142/afghan-detainees-have-right-to-us-courts-judge.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA federal judge overruled both the Bush and the Obama administrations today, declaring that prisoners held at a military base in Afghanistan can challenge their detention in US civilian courts, the New York Times reports. The prisoners deserve the same right that the Supreme Court granted to Gitmo detainees last...http://www.newser.com/story/55142/afghan-detainees-have-right-to-us-courts-judge.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 02 Apr 2009 16:41:07 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/54820/yemen-doc-cleared-to-leave-gitmo-after-7-years.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Yemeni doctor held at Guantanamo Bay since 2002 has been cleared for transfer abroad as part of the administration's review of prisoner cases, reports CNN. Justice Department officials say the hard part now will be to find a country willing to take him. The Bush administration once claimed the...http://www.newser.com/story/54820/yemen-doc-cleared-to-leave-gitmo-after-7-years.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 31 Mar 2009 4:38:56 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/53285/us-drops-term-enemy-combatant.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Obama administration said today it is abandoning one of President Bush's key phrases in the war on terrorism: enemy combatant, the AP reports. The Justice Department said in legal filings that it will no longer use the term to justify holding prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. But that won't change...http://www.newser.com/story/53285/us-drops-term-enemy-combatant.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 13 Mar 2009 18:19:20 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/51912/us-will-charge-combatant-in-military-custody.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAli al Marri, the only alleged enemy combatant held on US soil, will be charged by the Justice Department, possibly for supplying material support to terrorism, ABC News reports. The move to a civilian criminal trial is an about-face from the policies of the Bush administration, which had insisted on...http://www.newser.com/story/51912/us-will-charge-combatant-in-military-custody.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 26 Feb 2009 16:48:02 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/49676/nato-chief-oks-attacks-on-afghan-drug-producers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNATO's top commander has authorized coalition troops “to attack directly drug producers and facilities throughout Afghanistan,” saying they “are inextricably linked to the Opposing Military Forces,” Der Spiegel reports. The order from US General John Craddock is not going over well with commanders on the ground. The top general in...http://www.newser.com/story/49676/nato-chief-oks-attacks-on-afghan-drug-producers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 02 Feb 2009 14:16:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/48288/2-dozen-gitmo-prisoners-win-court-cases.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAt least 24 detainees at Guantanamo Bay have won cases in federal court or military tribunals voiding their detention in the last 3 months. While the Bush administration has insisted that the prisoners who remain at Gitmo are "the worst of the worst," there was apparently no legal reason to...http://www.newser.com/story/48288/2-dozen-gitmo-prisoners-win-court-cases.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 19 Jan 2009 4:26:32 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/47982/judge-orders-youngest-gitmo-prisoner-freed.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA judge has ordered the military to release the youngest prisoner ever sent to Guantanamo Bay, reports CNN. The judge ruled that Mohammad el-Gharani, sent to the detention center in 2002 at the age of 14, was not an enemy combatant. El-Gharani's lawyer said his client, a citizen of Chad,...http://www.newser.com/story/47982/judge-orders-youngest-gitmo-prisoner-freed.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 15 Jan 2009 4:31:25 CST