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WASHINGTON - Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan will be tried in a military court-martial, and prosecutors are expected to seek the death penalty, officials said yesterday. FBI and Army investigators tried to interview Hasan, who is recovering from bullet wounds in a San Antonio, Tex., Army hospital, on Sunday, but he refused and demanded a lawyer. Under the military system, Hasan's fellow Army officers - almost certainly combat veterans - will rule on whether he is guilty of the mass murder of 12 soldiers and one civilian at Fort Hood, and, if so, on his punishment. A death penalty would...

CAMP PENDLETON ---- A Marine lance corporal took the hand of an Iraqi man he had just helped kidnap last year and used it to strike the face of the bullet-riddled victim, a co-defendant in the homicide case testified Thursday. "He took his hand and kind of played with it and made Mr. Awad hit himself," former Petty Officer Melson Bacos said about his squad mate, Lance Cpl. Robert Pennington, during testimony in a Camp Pendleton courtroom. "He said, 'Quit hitting yourself.' "Bacos' testimony came as the government presented evidence that will lead to its sentencing recommendation when the court-martial...

<p>Military officials yesterday confirmed that a Muslim chaplain who was counseling al Qaeda prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, naval base has been detained since Sept. 10 after being found in possession of classified documents.</p> <p>The Washington Times first reported yesterday that Army Capt. James. J. Yee is being held at the Naval Consolidated Brig in Charleston, S.C., charged with sedition, espionage, aiding the enemy, spying and failing to obey a general order.</p>

ASHINGTON, Sept. 20 — An Islamic chaplain in the United States Army who ministered to detainees at the camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where the military holds captured militants and suspected terrorists is now himself under arrest while the Army investigates his activities, military and law enforcement officials said today. The chaplain, Capt. James J. Yee, also known as Youssef Yee, has not been charged either by the military or by civilian authorities, the officials said. His case is being investigated by the Army and if he is charged, it would most likely be under the military justice code, they...

Death for Jordan bomb attack A military court in Jordan has sentenced three Jordanian men to death for a bombing that killed two people last year. Two of the accused have never been caught and were sentenced in their absence. Four others were given prison terms ranging from one year to life. The men were convicted of planting a bomb under the car of the wife of an anti-terrorism officer, Lt-Colonel Ali Burjaq, in the capital Amman in February 2002. The bomb killed two passers-by but Colonel Burjaq escaped unharmed, having driven away from the area minutes beforehand. It was...

Mar. 10, 2003 Court sentences Fatah terrorist to four life sentences By THE JERUSALEM POST INTERNET STAFF A military court in Beit El has sentenced Nasser Shawish, a member of Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement and a leader of the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades, to four consecutive life sentences for his involvement in the planning of three suicide attacks against Israeli targets, reports Army Radio. Shawish is responsible for the suicide attack in Jerusalem's King George street last year in which three Israelis were killed.