Graphic details about sexual threats and other harsh interrogation techniques the CIA meted out to captured militants will be detailed by a Senate Intelligence Committee report on the spy agency's anti-terror tactics, sources familiar with the document said.
An American, a Briton and a South African were among several hostages Yemeni forces sought to free from al Qaeda this week, the defense ministry said on its website, describing a raid that a U.S. defense official said also involved U.S. special forces.
A senior al Qaeda official wanted by the United States and a local leader of the militant group's affiliate, Ansar al-Sharia, were killed in a drone strike in central Yemen overnight, tribal sources said on Wednesday.
During a cross-examination at his terrorism trial, Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri confirmed that he did say he had admired Osama bin Laden and that the US government had been the one behind the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York, Bloomberg reported.
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith was found guilty of all terrorism-related charges filed against him, including conspiracy to kill US nationals, on Wednesday, The New York Times said.
Assistant US Attorney John Cronan told the court in his closing statement that Sulaiman Abu Ghaith should get a life sentence for his crimes against the US, New York Daily News said in a report.
Lawyers of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, who has been charged with conspiracy to plot terrorist attacks against US nationals, are expected to defend their client on Monday after a federal court ruled to allow the case to be tried before a jury, the Los Angeles Times said.
34 year-old Saajid Badat testified today via video link against Sulaiman Abu Ghayth for conspiracy to acts of terrorism-related charges, Businessweek said in a report.
Us prosecutors built their case today via opening statements about Sulaiman Abu Ghayth's guilt of conspiring with the terrorist al-Qaeda network of harming Americans, Bloomberg said in a report.
Presiding US District Judge Lewis Kaplan reportedly declined the motion of the defense team of son-in-law of notorious terrorist Osama Bin Laden, Sulaiman Abu Ghayth, to obtain the documents of a purported witness to clear their client of charges to plot the killing of US nationals.
