Legal

Appeals court looks set to let Pentagon out of 9/11 plea deals An appeals court signaled it will override a military judge’s ruling that the agreements avoiding the death penalty were binding.

(Politico) A federal appeals court appears poised to rule that the Pentagon has the authority to withdraw from plea deals ruling out the death penalty that were negotiated with three Guantanamo Bay prisoners accused of plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. […]

Children & Teens

Copenhagen orders extradition of Swedish teen suspected of attacking Israeli embassies The teen is also suspected of murdering a man in Hallstahammar

(Jerusalem Post) A Copenhagen City Court ruled that a 17-year-old suspect, believed to have attacked Israeli embassies in both Denmark and Sweden, should be extradited, according to a Wednesday statement by Senior Prosecutor Cecilia Holmbom. The teenager, a Swedish citizen, is suspected […]

Government & Politics

Sept. 11 plea deal includes lifetime gag order on C.I.A. torture secrets The clause is included in a disputed plea agreement between a Pentagon official and the man accused of planning the attacks that killed 3,000 people.

(NY Times) Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the prisoner at the military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who is accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks, has agreed to never disclose secret aspects of his torture by the C.I.A. if he is allowed to […]