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Pentagon-approved sketch by court artist Janet Hamlin of defendant Khalid Sheikh Mohammed speaking with lead defense lawyer David Nevin during a pretrial hearing at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba.

National Security

FBI said to question member of 9/11 case defense

Ben Fox · April 14, 2014 9:21 pm

FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2013 pool file photo reviewed by the U.S. Department of Defense, one of Guantanamo Bay's two courthouses is seen through a broken window at Camp Justice at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. On Monday, April 14, 2014 a judge in Guantanamo will open a hearing into the sanity of prisoner Ramzi Binalshibh, whose courtroom outbursts about alleged mistreatment in Camp 7 have halted the effort to try five men in the Sept. 11 attacks, all of whom are held there. (AP Photo/Toronto Star, Michelle Shephard, Pool, File)

National Security

Window opens on secret camp within Guantanamo

Ben Fox · April 13, 2014 11:34 pm

Relatives and friends carry the coffin of Genesis Carmona, in Valencia, Venezuela, Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. The university student and beauty queen was buried Friday in Valencia where she was slain during a political protest, a victim of what government opponents say is the kind of indiscriminate violence that has been used to stifle dissent across the country by supporters of President Nicolas Maduro. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Slain beauty queen mourned in Venezuela

Ben Fox · February 22, 2014 4:34 am

A protester wearing a painter's mask helps build a barricade against the advance of a police water cannon in the Altamira neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. The opposition is protesting the Tuesday detention of thier leader Leopoldo Lopez, as well as rampant crime, shortages of consumer goods and an inflation rate of more than 50 percent. (AP Photo/Alejandro Cegarra)

Venezuelans clash as jailed opposition leader sits

Ben Fox · February 20, 2014 4:07 am

In this Feb. 1, 2014 photo, an orphanage worker feeds a baby at the U.S.-based Church of Bible Understanding-run orphanage in Kenscoff, Haiti. The religious group sells expensive antiques at high-end stores called Olde Good Things in New York and Los Angeles and says it uses a portion of the profit to fund the orphanage. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Problems persist at US church-run Haiti orphanage

Ben Fox · February 4, 2014 5:24 pm

A task force set up to review the status of all prisoners at Guantanamo concluded in January 2010 that 48 of the 240 prisoners held at the time were too dangerous to release but could not be prosecuted either because of a lack of evidence or for some other reason. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

New Guantanamo hearings limit media, NGO access

Associated Press, Ben Fox · January 25, 2014 5:00 am

In this June 27, 2006 file photo, reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, U.S. military guards walk within Camp Delta military-run prison at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. Two men who have been held without charge at the Guantanamo Bay for more than a decade have been sent back to their native Algeria as part of a renewed effort to gradually close the prison, U.S. officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

National Security

US sends 2 Guantanamo prisoners back to Algeria

Ben Fox · December 5, 2013 5:00 am

Guantanamo doctors haven’t opposed force feeding

Guantanamo doctors haven’t opposed force feeding

Ben Fox · June 21, 2013 1:27 am

Guantanamo court held in secret without accused

Guantanamo court held in secret without accused

Ben Fox · June 14, 2013 9:08 pm

Charges sought for Iraqi held at Guantanamo

Charges sought for Iraqi held at Guantanamo

Ben Fox · June 11, 2013 12:44 am

US accused of withholding evidence in drug case

US accused of withholding evidence in drug case

Ben Fox · May 30, 2013 8:25 pm

FILE - In this Oct. 9, 2007 file photo, Guantanamo guards keep watch over a cell block with detainees in Camp 6 maximum-security facility, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. Guards clashed Saturday, April 13, 2013 with prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay prison as the military sought to move hunger strikers out of a communal section of the detention center, officials said. The confrontation occurred after the commander decided to move prisoners into single, solid-walled cells so that prison authorities could monitor them more closely during the hunger strike, the military said.. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Clash over hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay

Ben Fox · April 13, 2013 4:00 am