Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law has pleaded not guilty to plotting against Americans in his role as al Qaida’s leading spokesman as a landmark case trying a terror suspect on US soil moves forward.

The chief prosecutor for the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals said that he is seeking to withdraw one of the eight charges against five men accused of planning and aiding the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Five Guantanamo prisoners charged in the Sept 11 attacks were back before a military tribunal yesterday, apparently foregoing the protest that turned their last appearance into an unruly 13-hour spectacle.

A lawyer for the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing asked a US federal appeals court to let him investigate why the government insists his imprisoned client is still a danger to America.

A Corkman whose sister and niece were killed in the Sep 11, 2001, attacks on New York is to give evidence in the trial of the men who masterminded the terrorist acts.

The man who called himself the “mastermind” of the September 11 attacks, and four comrades, are back before a military judge in Guantanamo Bay to face charges that could lead to their execution.

The man who once bragged about planning September 11 "from A to Z" may mount a defence after all to charges that he orchestrated the worst terror attack in US history, with families of the dead watching intently from the US on closed-circuit TV.

The Pentagon has said it is ready to resume a trial at Guantanamo Bay for the acknowledged mastermind of the September 11 attacks and four other men.

The Pentagon has said it is ready to resume a trial at Guantanamo Bay for the acknowledged mastermind of the Sept 11 attacks and four other men.

A Guantanamo inmate pleaded guilty today to helping al-Qaida plot attacks from his native Pakistan, in a plea deal that limits his sentence.

A Saudi man considered among the most senior figures in al-Qaida has emerged from nine years of secret confinement to face charges of orchestrating the deadly attack on the USS Cole, in the start of a new round of Guantanamo Bay war crimes tribunals under a president who vowed to halt them.

IT IS a decade since the 9/11 terrorist atrocity but their grief and pain endures, the void remains and they still await justice.

WATERBOARDING and other harsh interrogation techniques were not a factor in tracking down Osama bin Laden, leading Republican Senator John McCain insisted last night.

THE possibility that US spies located Osama bin Laden with help from detainees who’d been subjected to “enhanced interrogation” techniques seems certain to reopen the debate over practices that many have equated with torture, security experts believe.

SECRET documents about detainees at Guantanamo Bay reveal new information about some of the men the US believes to be terrorists, according to reports.

Secret documents about detainees at Guantanamo Bay reveal new information about some of the men the US believes to be terrorists, according to reports about the files.

US PRESIDENT Barack Obama’s decision to resume military trials for detainees at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba will open the door for the prosecution there of several suspected 9/11 conspirators, including alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

HANDCUFFED and marched through Washington’s Dulles International Airport in his Muslim clothing, the man with the long, dark beard could only imagine what people were thinking.

Four men, including a British national, who were imprisoned for killing Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl were not present during his beheading, but were convicted of murder because Pakistani authorities knowingly relied on perjured testimony and ignored other leads, a report has concluded.

GEORGE W Bush, all but invisible since he left the White House nearly two years ago, reclaimed the spotlight yesterday with the release of a new memoir defending his “war on terror” and the Iraq invasion.

George W Bush faced international condemnation tonight of his claim that British lives were saved as a result of torture.

George Bush has defended the controversial use of "waterboarding" during his time as US president, saying that the information obtained from terrorist suspects saved lives.

Osama bin Laden will never face trial in the United States because he will not be captured alive, the US attorney general told Congress today.

US attorney general Eric Holder is leaving open the possibility of trying professed September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed before a military commission instead of the civilian trial originally planned for New York City.

Relatives of British victims of the September 11 terror attacks welcomed news that prosecutors will push for the death penalty in the New York trials of five alleged plotters.

ATTORNEY General Eric Holder says self-proclaimed September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York for trial in a civilian federal court and he expects to seek the death penalty.

Self-proclaimed September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York for trial in a civilian US court and prosecutors expect to seek the death penalty, Attorney General Eric Holder said today.

Self-proclaimed September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York to face trial in a civilian federal court, an Obama administration official said today.

Alleged terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed called the September 11 attack a “noble victory” and branded President Barack Obama a liar in a letter released by the US military’s war crimes court.

THE US government has launched a criminal investigation into CIA interrogations as a declassified report revealed threats to kill a suspect’s children and the use of an electric drill to scare another detainee.

The US government has launched a criminal investigation into CIA interrogations as a declassified report revealed threats to kill a suspect’s children and the use of an electric drill to scare another detainee.

Barack Obama absolved CIA officers from prosecution for harsh, painful interrogation of terror suspects, even as his administration released Bush-era memos graphically detailing and authorising the grim tactics.

Former US president George Bush plans to write a “what would you have done?” book about the 12 toughest decisions he made in office.

US President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to prohibit the use of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques by ordering the CIA to follow military rules for questioning prisoners, according to two US officials familiar with drafts of the plans.

The self-styled mastermind behind the September 11 terror attacks and four of his co-defendants face possible execution after telling a military judge at Guantanamo Bay that they wanted to plead guilty.

The self-styled mastermind behind the September 11 terror attacks, and four of his co-defendants, told a military judge at Guantanamo Bay today that they wanted to plead guilty.

THE first war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay can begin next Monday, a federal judge has ruled, saying civilian courts should let the military process play out as Congress intended.

The imminent start of war crimes trials at Guantanamo Bay has been thrown into doubt by a US Supreme Court ruling that detainees have constitutional rights and can appeal to civilian courts.

The accused mastermind of the September 11 terrorist attacks said he welcomed martyrdom at US hands, as he and four codefendants asked to be tried for war crimes without the benefit of lawyers.

The al-Qaida leader accused of masterminding the September 11 attacks and four co-conspirators faced a military judge today in their first appearance before a war-crimes tribunal.

The US military expects a confrontational hearing when the accused mastermind of the September 11 terrorist attacks and four alleged confederates are brought before a Marine colonel presiding over their war-crimes tribunal.

Lawyers for five 9/11 suspects accused the US government of rushing their cases at Guantanamo in order to influence the US presidential elections.

FBI agents raised misgivings about US interrogators’ mistreatment of terror suspects detained in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay during the three years after September 11, but in some cases were slow to report it, a US Justice Department report says.