The request by the five detainees appeared to be intended to cut short any effort to try them, and to challenge the United States to put them to death.
AP - Congressional officials say the lawyer who oversaw the 9/11 victims' compensation fund has emerged as a candidate to be the "car czar" in charge of a bailout for Detroit's Big Three automakers.
AP - Blackwater Worldwide security guards opened machine gun fire on innocent, surrendering Iraqis and launched a grenade into a girls' school during a gruesome Baghdad shooting last year, prosecutors said Monday in announcing manslaughter charges against five guards.
AP - The alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four co-defendants told a military judge Monday they want to immediately confess at their war-crimes tribunal, setting up likely guilty pleas and their possible executions.
Workers at a Chicago, Illinois, window factory knew something was up when machines from the plant would disappear during weekends. After the abrupt layoff announcement last week, about 200 workers staged a "peaceful occupation" and insisted they get the 60-days of severance they are due. President-elect Obama threw his support behind them, and today the Illinois governor followed suit.
Five detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, say they want to confess to conspiracy charges for planning the September 11, 2001, attacks, a Pentagon spokeswoman said Monday.