Originally published at Truthout and reprinted here with permission. Written by Truthout’s lead investigative reporter, Jason Leopold. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed sat stone silent inside the courtroom at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, refusing to answer routine questions from the judge presiding over his arraignment for war crimes. Four other co-defendants, who are being [...]
May 16, 2012 | Filed under
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This report was originally published on Truthout. Prosecutors in the Office of Military Commissions at Guantanamo Bay have informed some attorneys defending “war on terror” detainees that their clients could be removed from the indefinite detention list and eventually released from the prison facility if they agree to cooperate and testify against certain prisoners selected [...]
February 24, 2012 | Filed under
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Editor’s Note: A slightly different version of this report was originally published on Truthout on June 13, 2011. On the tenth anniversary of 9/11, just as he has done in years past, a top military intelligence analyst identified by the US government only as “Iron Man” will hunker down in front of his television and [...]
September 11, 2011 | Filed under
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Ray McGovern and Jason Leopold: The intelligence agencies had the information, the question is why didn’t they use it. See this in-depth report by Leopold published last month, which formed the basis for this interview.
September 11, 2011 | Filed under
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TPR and Truthout contributor Jeffrey Kaye talks about his recent report in which a whistle blower reveals senior military commanders prior to 9/11 blocked intelligence that located Bin Laden and predicted that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were likely targets of attack. Also see the follow-up story by Kaye and Jason Leopold published [...]
September 10, 2011 | Filed under
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This story was written by Jeffrey Kaye and Jason Leopold and originally published at Truthout. Senior Pentagon officials scrubbed key details about a top-secret military intelligence unit’s efforts in tracking Osama bin Laden and suspected al-Qaeda terrorists from official reports they prepared for a Congressional committee probing the 9/11 terrorist attacks, new documents obtained by [...]
September 10, 2011 | Filed under
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This report was written by Jason Leopold and originally published at Truthout. With the tenth anniversary of 9/11 just a month away, the intelligence failures leading up to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have started to attract fresh scrutiny from former counterterrorism officials, who have called into question the [...]
August 12, 2011 | Filed under
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This story was originally published at Truthout. It was reported by Jeffrey Kaye and Jason Leopold On the tenth anniversary of 9/11, just as he has done in years past, a top military intelligence analyst identified by the US government only as “Iron Man” will hunker down in front of his television and watch a [...]
June 13, 2011 | Filed under
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How ironic, of all people in the world, Vladimir Lenin, the Russian revolutionary defined the goal of terrorism succinctly. Lenin said: “the purpose of terrorism is to terrorize.” A century has unfolded since Lenin’s practical conclusion. In modern era, America witnessed the act of domestic terrorism by Timothy McVeigh, a United States Army veteran also [...]
June 9, 2011 | Filed under
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A number of commentators have replied to Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement today that five suspects in the 9/11 attacks, including alleged Al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will not be tried in civilian courts for the terrorist attacks almost ten years ago, but will be tried by President Obama’s revamped military commissions tribunals. What [...]
April 5, 2011 | Filed under
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