U.S. v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, et al./Related Articles
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Parent topics
- 9-11 Attack [r]: The largest terrorist attack on the continental United States, occurring on September 11, 2001, using hijacked airliners as suicide weapons against major buildings. [e]
- Eric Holder [r]: (born January 21, 1951) Current United States Attorney General in the Obama administration [e]
- Barack Obama [r]: 44th President of the United States of America (2009–2017) and a former Senator from Illinois (born 1961). [e]
Subtopics
- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [r]: Described by the U.S. and by his own proud statement, the operational planner, for al-Qaeda, of the 9-11 attack; a U.S. High Value Detainee to be tried in a civilian criminal court in U.S. v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, et al. [e]
- Ramzi Binalshibh [r]: The primary staff assistant to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, communications intermediary with the 9-11 hijackers and involved in other planning; currently a High Value Detainee at Guantanamo Bay detention camp; defendant in U.S. v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, et al. [e]
Related topics
- American Civil Liberties Union [r]: American political action group founded in 1920 for protection of civil liberties. [e]
- Al-Qaeda [r]: International islamist terrorist network. Responsible for the 9-11 attack and other terrorist attacks. [e]
- Boumediene v. Bush [r]: One of four important Habeas corpus petitions that made it all the way to the Supreme Court [e]
- Capital punishment [r]: The practice of punishment of a crime through state-sanctioned killing. [e]
- Extrajudicial detention, U.S., George W. Bush Administration [r]: Policies and practices relevant to detention in intelligence and military facilities, the latter when no prisoner of war status was granted [e]
- Extrajudicial detention, U.S., Barack Obama Administration [r]: How the Barack Obama administration has approached the concept of extrajudicial detention. [e]
- Steven Calabresi [r]: Law professor at Northwestern University, who cofounded the Federalist Society and is the chairman of its board of directors [e]
- Guantanamo Bay detention camp [r]: A military-operated extrajudicial detention facility created by the George W. Bush Administration for selected captives apprehended during the war on terror; ordered closed by the Obama administration but apparently will remain in operation indefinitely [e]
- Hamdi v. Rumsfeld [r]: A 2004 opinion by the Supreme Court of the United States, which held that a U.S. citizen, captured in a combat zone and alleged to be bearing arms against the United States, still was entitled to a judicial hearing to determine if he was an enemy combatant subject to military, rather than civilian, law [e]
- Intelligence interrogation, U.S., George W. Bush Administration [r]: The policies and practices authorized for interrogation of suspected terrorists by the United States Department of Defense and the United States intelligence community during the George W. Bush Administration [e]
- Osama bin Laden [r]: Radical jihadist who, with Ayman al-Zawahiri, founded a group known as al-Qaeda, which is credited with a series of terrorist attacks. [e]
- Military Commissions Act of 2006 [r]: U.S. law authorizing the President or Secretary of Defense to create tribunals for determining the prisoner of war status of persons captured as non-national combatants, and to try them, outside the regular judicial system, for war crimes [e]
- Terrorism [r]: An act, with targets including civilians or civilian infrastructure, intended to create an atmosphere of fear in order to obtain a political objective. [e]