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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- The Pentagon announced today that it has formed a five-member military tribunal to try three terrorism suspects held at this U.S. naval base. The Pentagon's announcement came a day after the Supreme Court issued a ruling that prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay should have access to U.S. civilian courts to appeal their detention -- a decision considered a major blow for President Bush's stance that the United States can jail suspects without judicial review. The trials -- of an Australian, a Sudanese and a Yemeni -- would be the first of any of the...

DEVELOPING: A military jury has convicted a man who was accused of being an aide of Usama bin Laden and making propaganda videos for Al Qaeda in the second Guantanamo war crimes trial. A jury of officers announced the verdict Monday at the U.S. base in Cuba.

GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba, Aug. 26 — A 36-year-old Yemeni on trial here for conspiracy to commit terrorism threw the military commission proceedings into confusion today when he said that he was a member of Al Qaeda and that if he were not allowed to represent himself he would boycott the trial and, if forced to attend, would sit silently in the courtroom. Ali Hamza Ahmed Sulayman al-Bahlul, who has been charged with being a top aide to Osama bin Laden, conducted through translators a polite but aggressive 30-minute colloquy with the presiding officer of the five-member panel, Col. Peter Brownback...

Yemeni Detainee Asks to Represent Self, Admits to Being al Qaeda By Kathleen T. RhemAmerican Forces Press Service NAVAL BASE GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, Aug. 26, 2004 –- A Yemeni man accused of crafting terrorist propaganda appeared before a military commission here today and asked to represent himself. Ali Hamza Ahmad Sulayman al Bahlul also admitted in court that he is a member of al Qaeda. Presiding officer Army Col. Peter Brownback said that under current commission orders, detainees must be appointed military defense counsel. He then recessed the court until a higher authority could rule on the matter. During...

Yemeni Poet Faces U.S. Military Hearing 1 hour, 41 minutes ago Add White House - AP Cabinet & State to My Yahoo! By PAISLEY DODDS, Associated Press Writer GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - The Pentagon (news - web sites) has accused the third Guantanamo terror suspect to face a U.S. military commission in as many days of being a "key al-Qaida propagandist." But his father says his son is just a peace-loving man who enjoys writing poetry. AP Photo AFP Slideshow: Guantanamo Naval Base Ali Hamza Ahmad Sulayman al Bahlul, 33, of Yemen, was scheduled to appear Thursday for...

Time is GMT + 8 hours Posted: 22 August 2004 1252 hrs Australian Taliban fighter and Osama bodyguards to face US military justiceA TV grab of an undated photo of David Hicks taken in Kosovo. GUANTANAMO BAY US NAVAL BASE, Cuba : The United States will this week start controversial military proceedings against an Australian Taliban fighter and three bodyguards for Osama bin Laden. David Hicks, an Australian, two Yemenis, Salim Ahmed Hamdan and Ali Hamza Ahmed Sulayman al-Bahlul, and a Sudanese, Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al-Qosi, will be the first of the 585 detainees at the Guantanamo detention camp in...

(CBS/AP) The U.S. military announced Tuesday that it has formed a five-member tribunal to try three terrorism suspects held at this U.S. naval base. The trials — of an Australian, a Sudanese and a Yemeni — would be the first of any of the prisoners swept up in the U.S. war on terror and held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Pentagon's announcement came a day after the Supreme Court issued a ruling that prisoners at the base should have access to U.S. civilian courts to appeal their detention — a decision considered a major blow for President Bush's stance that...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has brought conspiracy charges against a Yemeni man and a Sudanese man, both described as having close ties to al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden (news - web sites), making them the first Guantanamo Bay prisoners to face criminal charges, the Pentagon (news - web sites) said on Tuesday. The Defense Department said Ali Hamza Ahmed Sulayman al Bahlul of Yemen and Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi of Sudan were charged with a single count each of conspiracy to commit war crimes and will be brought to trial before a military tribunal. Pentagon spokesman...