Tag: Guantanamo Bay
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22 years later, justice and information remain elusive for thousands of 9/11 victims and their families
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Twenty-two years ago, the unthinkable happened. Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked and crashed four passenger jets on U.S. soil in a coordinated suicide attack that killed 2,976 men, women and children in New York City, at the Pentagon and in a Pennsylvania field. -
9/11 families tell Barr: Give us same access to records you gave to al-Qaeda defendants
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Thousands of 9/11 family members sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday demanding access to up to 25,000 pages of government documents kept from them in their lawsuit against Saudi Arabia but turned over to attorneys defending accused 9/11 terrorists being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. -
FBI censored documents to protect privacy of accused 9/11 mastermind, accomplice
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Even as the FBI recently has made public more 9/11 records to satisfy the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act in advance of a possible trial, it continues to withhold untold documents that promise to cast new light on that terrible day. -
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New Saudi king ran state charity that 9/11 victims say funded and armed al Qaeda
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Saudi Arabia’s new king, Salman, “actively directed” a Saudi charity whose funding was “especially important to al Qaeda acquiring the strike capabilities used to launch attacks in the U.S.,” say new court papers filed by lawyers representing 9/11 victims and their families. -
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Hunger Strikes and Indefinite Detention: A Rundown on What’s Going on at Gitmo
By Coral Currier
ProPublica
It’s been 11 years since the first detainees were brought to Guantanamo Bay. But the future of the prison, and the fate of the men inside it, is far from certain. With 59 detainees at Gitmo currently on hunger strike, by the military’s count, here’s a primer on what’s going at the island prison.
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