According to court filings made in the federal court of Manhattan on Monday, US prosecutors are barring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's statement about Sulaiman Abu Ghaith's actual role as a spokesman and not a military man in terrorist group Al-Qaeda.
Ahmed Muhammed Haza al Darbi, a detainee of the Guantánamo Bay US military prison in Cuba, admitted to playing a major role in the Al Qaeda attack on French oil tanker Limburg in 2002, the New York Times said in a report.
Yemeni authorities reportedly foiled an al Qaeda plot go capture oil and gas facilities and seize two key southern plots earlier this week, a spokesman for the prime minister said
During his opening statements beginning his court martial trial on Tuesday, suspect Major Nidal Hasan who faces the death penalty for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, told jurors that "the evidence will clearly show that I am the shooter." His opening statements lasted less than two minutes, adding that, "witnesses will testify that war is an ugly thing. Death, destruction and devastation are felt from both sides, from friend and foe. Evidence from this trial will only show one side. I was on the wrong side, but I switched sides."
