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  • "As president, I refuse to allow this problem to fester"

    President Obama gives a speech on Guantanamo Bay, torture and national security
  • Meet the accidental guerrillas

    Ex-Petraeus advisor David Kilcullen warns that if Western forces aren't willing to stick around in Iraq and Afghanistan, extremists will continue turning the locals into weapons.
  • Failure in Afghanistan, catastrophe in Pakistan

    William Dalrymple's review of Ahmed Rashid's "Descent into Chaos" tells a tale of neocon-concocted utter disaster
  • Confessions of a former Guantánamo prosecutor

    The inside story of a military lawyer who discovered stunning injustice at the heart of the Bush administration's military commissions.
  • More blowback from the war on terror

    The U.S.-backed Ethiopian military has secreted away scores of "suspects" -- including pregnant women and children -- and fueled anti-American rancor in Africa.
  • Is the U.S. putting mentally incompetent terror suspects on trial?

    At Guantánamo, bizarre proceedings with the 9/11 suspects raise questions about a prisoner's psychiatric evaluation and the murky role of the CIA.
  • Why this lifelong Republican may vote for Obama

    The party of Bush and McCain outsourced the hunt for bin Laden, failing to accomplish a vital mission since 9/11.
  • American credibility on trial

    Was one of the youngest prisoners at Guantánamo rushed to court by the Bush administration for political reasons?
  • The fall of Bush's man in Pakistan

    Despite Pervez Musharraf's despotism and double-dealing with U.S. enemies, George W. Bush, John McCain and the GOP embraced him to the bitter end.
  • Guilty in Guantánamo

    Osama bin Laden's driver has been tried and convicted. But what's the verdict for the Bush administration's tactics in the war on terror?
  • Sabotage in Guantánamo

    How the 9/11 suspects are trying to exploit the major flaws in the military commissions implemented by the Bush administration.
  • Pakistan's deal with the devil

    Beheadings, martial law, kidnappings: The Taliban is making its presence felt at the gates of one of Pakistan's biggest cities.
  • A timeline to Bush government torture

    Newly public evidence sheds greater light on Bush officials' efforts to develop brutal interrogation techniques for the war on terror.
  • Arraigning the 9/11 suspects, Guantánamo-style

    Hearings for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others here were marred by intimidation, partial censorship and a ruling that left justice in doubt.
  • Looking for payoff in Iraq

    Winning "hearts and minds" is in some sense like a seduction. But what happens if American largesse here runs out?
  • Still silenced in Guantánamo

    After years spent here, one prisoner pins his hope on a single phone call from the outside world -- if it ever comes.
  • The forgotten kid of Guantánamo

    A teenager captured in Afghanistan and shipped to the U.S. prison remained unknown to the world for five years. Now he's being tried as an adult.
  • Inside the Guantánamo terror trials

    A bruised-up detainee rejects the proceedings, and his lawyer discovers that military officials withheld records about his client's mental health.
  • How Iraq spawned wider terrorist chaos

    As experts long warned, Islamic militants steeped in urban warfare against U.S. troops in Iraq have expanded their violent campaign beyond Iraq's borders.
  • Sizing up Petraeus on Iraq

    The top U.S. general gave Congress an upbeat assessment of the war Tuesday. Here's the reality behind the rhetoric.
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