A former kangaroo skinner is today expected to get a chance to contest allegations that he took up arms against the United States in the chaotic aftermath of the September 11 attacks.

The US military is planning to build a $125 million (€97m) compound to hold war crimes trials at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.

The US military is planning to build a £66m (€97m) compound to hold war crimes trials at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, including a two-courtroom facility, dining areas and accommodation for as many as 1,200 people.

The US said today it had transferred five detainees from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Afghanistan.

The United States has stopped press access to Guantanamo Bay as the prison comes under renewed criticism for the apparent suicides of three detainees last weekend.

US authorities will review the rules for handling and monitoring detainees at Guantanamo Bay following the suicides of three men there, military officials said.

A REPORT of US military abuse of detainees in Afghanistan is deeply disturbing and those involved should be punished, the United Nations said yesterday.

US FEDERAL courts dealt a double blow to the Bush administration’s strategy in the war on terror yesterday, ruling that the US military cannot deny prisoners access to lawyers or the American courts by detaining them indefinitely.

WORRIED about allowing inspectors to visit state prisons and jailed terror suspects, the United States tried, but failed, to block a UN vote on a plan to enforce a treaty on torture.

Two detainees at the Guantanamo Bay naval base who revived a hunger strike are still refusing meals and will be fed intravenously if they do not eat by tomorrow, US military officials said.

American authorities are planning to take DNA from al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners in a bid to create a databank of their genetic fingerprints, it was revealed today.

Thirteen al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners at Guantanamo Bay naval base have been without food for five days in a hunger strike that has encouraged scores of others to skip meals, US military officials said today.

United States authorities today dropped a ban on al-Qaida suspects held at Camp X-Ray wearing turbans after prisoners went on hunger strike in protest.

Nearly 90 al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners at Camp X-Ray were still believed to be on hunger strike today, despite a concession by their American guards over the wearing of turbans.

Two more British prisoners have been moved to the US Camp X-ray detention centre in Cuba.

Military guards have found rocks and stones in the cells of terrorist suspects from the war in Afghanistan being held at Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba, according to the camp commander.

The first group of al-Qaida prisoners has left Afghanistan under tight security to begin the 8,000-mile journey to jail in Cuba.