The Pentagon will not allow four journalists to cover the trial of Guantanamo prisoner Omar Khadr because they are said to have reported the name of a military interrogator who testified Thursday "that he tried to frighten Khadr with the possibility of being raped in prison." The name of that interrogator had already been widely reported in the Canadian press.
Pentagon bars reporters from Gitmo trial for reporting already-public information
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US and Iran practicing an "Israeli ceasefire," by shooting at one another
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