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August 2018 marks 73 years since the end of the war against the Japanese empire.

Former Baltimore County resident Majid Khan, making his first appearance before a military commission in four years, is expected to agree Wednesday to a new plea deal on charges he plotted with senior al-Qaida leaders in Pakistan and helped the group carry out a deadly hotel bombing in Indonesia.

It was night, and Mahmood Khan's family was asleep when the Maryland man opened the Senate torture report. As he read through the pages, he learned what the CIA had done to his little brother Majid during the three years his family had thought he was dead.

As his 10th anniversary at Guantanamo Bay draws near, an al-Qaida plotter from Baltimore is at the center of a new plan that could help resolve the cases of the dozens of men still held at the military outpost on Cuba.

In the immediate aftermath of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the CIA and other intelligence agencies worked to track down potential al-Qaida plotters around the world, while the plotters tried to come up with fresh ways to sow panic in the United States.

A family friend who fought Soviet forces in Afghanistan started an Owings Mills High School graduate on a journey that would take him to Pakistan to work with senior leaders of al-Qaida and then to Guantanamo Bay, where he eventually promised to cooperate with the United States against his former comrades.

Majid Khan, an Owings Mills High School graduate who helped al-Qaida carry out a deadly hotel bombing in Indonesia, endured years of torture by the CIA, including sexual assaults and being waterboarded in an ice bath, his lawyers said Tuesday.

The taboo against torture is important and honorable, just like the taboos against killing. But sometimes the real world gets a veto.

Author of "The Company Man" says former President Bush didn't know about so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques."

The president's desire to 'make nice' with the Muslim world is preventing us from calling evil by its name.

Emergency responders and railroad officials faced a massive, days-long clean up of coal, overturned train cars and crushed vehicles in the historic center of Ellicott City late Tuesday night, following an early morning train derailment that crushed two 19-year-old women to death.

Back from a visit to Kabul and visits with Afghan and U.S. commanders, Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger expressed confidence in relations between the two countries. It's Pakistan that concerns him.

Any hope that the arraignments of five men accused in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, might bring healing to family members a decade after they lost loved ones at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon was stymied by a start-stop proceeding in which the defendants refused to participate.

The public may watch the arraignment of self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other terror suspects Saturday at Fort Meade, but a separate viewing area planned for family members of victims won't be ready in time, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday.

Members of the public may watch the arraignment of self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other terror suspects from Fort Meade on Saturday, but seating will be limited, a spokesman for the Army base said Tuesday.

The case of alleged Al Qaeda operative Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame will test whether U.S. civilian courts are up to the task of dealing with terrorist suspects captured abroad. Defending the rule of law

We'll never find out if torturing suspects helped us find Osama bin Laden, but it's a moot point because those methods are no longer in use

The successful hunt for Osama bin Laden is no vindication of torture in the pursuit of terrorists