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Thursday, June 5, 2014

Pentagon approves war crimes trial for al Qaeda leader

Pentagon approves war crimes trial for al Qaeda leader
[JURIST] The US Department of Defense (DOD) [official website] on Monday approved [press release] the war crimes trial of Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi [BBC profile], a former leader of al Qaeda's army between 2002 and 2004. The former CIA captive has been held at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST backgrounder] since 2007. The official charge sheet [text, PDF] alleges, among other things, that al-Hadi was a superior commander for al Qaeda and that he and his operatives killed multiple US service members and... [more].

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