NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) – Accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has been tinting his beard red by rubbing it with fruit juice and crushed berries from his breakfast, a Pentagon spokesman said on Tuesday.

Mohammed first showed up for his April arraignment hearing with his long, scraggly beard tinted a rusty red, and it remained dyed the same hue when he returned last week to the courtroom at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba.

NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) – The death penalty trial of five Guantanamo prisoners accused of plotting the September 11 attacks is so important that it should be televised to the public, defense lawyers argued on Friday.

The issue was discussed on the final day of a week-long pretrial hearing for the alleged mastermind of the hijacked plane attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four co-defendants accused of providing money, training and travel assistance to the hijackers.

NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) – The Guantanamo tribunal judge should deal with constitutional challenges individually as they arise rather than make a blanket presumption the U.S. Constitution applies in the trial of five men accused of plotting the September 11 attacks, a U.S. prosecutor argued on Thursday.

The matter arose in a pretrial hearing for alleged September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Pakistani, Yemeni and Saudi captives facing charges that could lead to their execution.

NAVAL BASE, Cuba, Oct 17 (Reuters) – -
T he alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks told the
Guantanamo courtroom on Wednesday that the U.S. government had
killed many more people in the name of national security than he
is accused of killing.

Khalid Sheik Mohammed was allowed to address the court at a
pretrial hearing focused on security classification rules for
evidence that will be used in his trial on charges of
orchestrating the hijacked plane attacks that killed 2,976
people.

NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) – The alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks showed up in the Guantanamo war crimes courtroom on Wednesday wearing a military-style camouflage vest over his white tunic, suggesting he may try to invoke protections reserved for soldiers.

A U.S. Army judge ruled on Tuesday that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-defendants charged with plotting the 2001 hijacked plane attacks could wear what they want to court, so long as it did not pose a security risk or include part of a U.S. military uniform like those worn by their guards.

NAVAL BASE, Cuba, Oct 16 (Reuters) – U.S.
security restrictions governing the statements of former CIA
captives held at Guantanamo are so stringent that one prisoner’s
assessment of basketball star LeBron James was treated as a top
national secret for two months, a military defense lawyer said
on Tuesday.

The incident was disclosed by Navy Lieutenant Commander
Kevin Bogucki, a defense lawyer for Yemeni defendant Ramzi
Binalshibh, one of five prisoners charged with orchestrating the
Sept. 11 plot to crash hijacked commercial planes into U.S.
buildings.

NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) – U.S. security restrictions governing the statements of five Guantanamo prisoners charged in the September 11 plot are so stringent that one defendant’s assessment of basketball star LeBron James was treated as a top national secret for two months, his lawyer said on Tuesday.

Yemeni defendant Ramzi Binalshibh, who is accused of helping the September 11 hijackers find flight schools, wrote a note to his lawyer criticizing the National Basketball Association star’s decision to leave the Cleveland Cavaliers for the Miami Heat in 2010, the lawyer, Navy Lieutenant Kevin Bogucki, said in a pretrial hearing at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba.

NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) – U.S. security restrictions governing the statements of five Guantanamo prisoners charged in the September 11 plot are so stringent that one defendant’s assessment of basketball star LeBron James was treated as a top national secret for two months, his lawyer said on Tuesday.

Yemeni defendant Ramzi Binalshibh, who is accused of helping the September 11 hijackers find flight schools, wrote a note to his lawyer criticizing the National Basketball Association star’s decision to leave the Cleveland Cavaliers for the Miami Heat in 2010, the lawyer, Navy Lieutenant Kevin Bogucki, said in a pretrial hearing at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba.

NAVAL BASE, Cuba, Oct 15 (Reuters) – - A
U.S. military judge angrily cut off a defense lawyer who tried
to discuss torture on Monday during a debate on whether
courtroom attendance was mandatory for five Guantanamo prisoners
accused of plotting the September 11 attacks.

The brief but heated exchange came in a pretrial hearing in
the death penalty case against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the
alleged mastermind of the hijacked plane attacks that killed
2,976 people in the United States in 2001, and four alleged al
Qaeda conspirators accused of providing money and other support
for the hijackers.

NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) – U.S. efforts to try five Guantanamo prisoners accused of plotting the September 11 attacks resumed Monday after months of delays as a polite courtroom discussion of legal representation contrasted sharply with the last chaotic session in May.

The orderly session kicked off a week of pretrial hearings that will focus later on secrecy issues in the death penalty case against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the hijacked plane attacks that killed 2,976 people in the United States in 2001, and four alleged al Qaeda conspirators accused of providing money and other support for the hijackers.