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Pittsburgh was treated to an impressive show the week of the recent G20 conference. A nice assortment of military choppers of various types and missions, along with odder aircraft difficult both to identify and explain. Both police and the National Guard were out in force, with downtown nearly sealed off. None of this hardware was used against the "3,000 - 4,000" (more like a few hundred) anarchist demonstrators when they turned their righteous wrath on a dozen Starbucks and a Whole Foods store. No serious confrontation was expected and none occurred. Because all of it - the Guard troops, the...

KABUL -- The family of one of the youngest prisoners ever held at Guantanamo plans to sue the U.S. government to compensate him for mistreatment and an adolescence lost to nearly seven years in a cell, his lawyers said Thursday. Mohammed Jawad returned to Afghanistan this week after a military judge ruled that he was coerced into confessing that he threw a grenade at an unmarked vehicle in the capital in 2002. The attack wounded two American soldiers and their interpreter. Afghan police delivered Jawad into U.S. custody and about a month later he was sent to the U.S. detention...

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Attorney General Eric Holder went ahead and released secret documents that the current CIA director (Panetta) and the previous two directors all wanted kept secret. This docudump is all a political calculation to bring back the specter of George W. Bush, please the far Left, and distract for the collapsing health care takeover plan. Holder also plans on pursuing prosecution of CIA personnel who did their best to keep us safe. Make no mistake, President Barack Obama is completely on board with this. The Attorney General serves at the discretion of the president. Meanwhile, Holder decided against prosecuting members of...

You heard about AG Eric Holder appointing a special prosecutor to investigate CIA Interrogators, but did you miss this quiet little story yesterday? Team Obama released another terrorist from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. They simply let him go. Even offered him a ride back to Afghanistan! They sent him back to his family near the place where he attacked U.S. Soldiers! Here are some details from Fox News: "the administration released Mohammed Jawad to his home in Afghanistan. Jawad had been accused of throwing a grenade in 2002 that injured two U.S. soldiers and their interpreter in Kabul....

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed Jawad is in Afghanistan and will be released into his family's custody today. Jawad was arrested by Afghan police in December 2002 for allegedly throwing a grenade into a vehicle containing two U.S. troops and an Afghan interpreter. In July, a judge granted his writ of habeas corpus; Justice Department officials had 22 days to determine whether they would attempt to try Jawad in a criminal court in the U.S. Despite talk of new evidence, ultimately they didn't file any new charges.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration plans to transfer six prisoners abroad from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, a U.S. official said on Wednesday, part of the effort to close the controversial facility by early 2010. The detainees include those previously ordered released by U.S. courts or whose release has been approved through the Obama administration's review process, a Justice Department official said, declining to give further details. The administration notified Congress around August 6-7 of the planned moves, starting a 15-day waiting period before the transfers can begin. One, Mohammed Jawad, could be sent back to Afghanistan as...

District Court Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle Thursday morning granted Guantanamo detainee Mohammed Jawad, a writ of habeas corpus that could result in his being freed on August 21. Justice Department officials 22 more days to determine whether or not they can try Jawad in a criminal court in the U.S. Jawad was arrested by Afghan police in December 2002 for allegedly throwing a grenade into a vehicle containing two US troops and an Afghan interpreter. It's unclear how old Jawad was at the time, but he was almost certainly 17 years old or younger. Jawad confessed to Afghan police that...

WASHINGTON – A judge who has grown impatient with the Obama administration's handling of a young Guantanamo Bay detainee is preparing to decide whether he'll go home to Afghanistan or to the United States for prosecution. U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle was scheduled to hear arguments Thursday in the case of Mohammed Jawad. He has been held for 6 1/2 years at the U.S. detention facility in Cuba for allegedly wounding two U.S. soldiers and their interpreter by throwing a grenade at their jeep in Afghanistan. Government attorneys said in court filings Wednesday that they were prepared to release Jawad,...

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - Plans to close Guantanamo are not sitting well with the Sept. 11 victims' relatives who sat stunned while two alleged terrorists declared they were proud of their role in the plot.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration said Wednesday it was prepared to release one of the youngest prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay, days after signaling it might bring him to the United States for a criminal trial. Government attorneys asked a federal judge to give them three weeks to release Mohammed Jawad. He's been held at the U.S. naval facility in Cuba for nearly seven years since being arrested for allegedly wounding two U.S. soldiers and their interpreter by throwing a grenade at their jeep in Afghanistan.

Top former regime’s officials said killed in attack on prison Baghdad, Iraq Press, May 3, 2004 – At least one of former leader Saddam Hussein’s top aides was killed in last month’s mortar attack at a detention center near Baghdad. The April mortar assault on the Baghdad Confinement Facility in Abu Ghraib has left 25 inmates dead, according to the US military. Now it has emerged that among the dead was General Sinan Abduljabbar Jawad, one of Saddam Hussein’s lieutenants. Jawad’s relatives and family say they received his corpse four days after the assault. Jawad, who sustained fatal head injuries,...

Dallas adds its protest cries With signs, speeches, area residents rally against Iraq war 02/16/2003 By ROY APPLETON / The Dallas Morning News The signs didn't beat around the bush: D = Dubya, Dictator, Destructive. Don't Trade Blood for Oil. Warmongers are Evildoers. Girls Say Yes to Boys Who Say No to Bombs. Such words, along with speeches, songs and satire, sent a message to the White House on Saturday from downtown Dallas: Don't attack Iraq, or at least give weapons inspectors a chance. Complementing a weekend of protests around the world, hundreds of Dallas-area residents of far-ranging ages and...

<p>Arab states don't have the option of cutting off oil supplies to support the Palestinians in their conflict with Israel, because doing so would cut off oil revenue needed to fund any resistance, Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said Tuesday in an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde.</p>