By Alan Gomez and Emily Bazar Nearly seven years after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the first trial of those accused of plotting the attacks starts today when military officials at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, select a jury to hear the case of Salim Hamdan.

MIAMI _ A Pentagon prosecutor swore out new war-crimes charges against three Guantanamo captives on Friday, hours after the Defense Department disclosed that a senior official in charge of detention policy had quit amid mounting criticism. Charles D.

DALLAS, Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Board of Trial Advocates, an organization dedicated to the preservation of America's justice system, announced that it supports the ethical standards of lawyers choosing to represent detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

MIAMI _ A top Pentagon official sought to extinguish a firestorm of fury Wednesday by publishing a three-paragraph apology to America's legal community for casting as dishonorable any attorney who offers free-of-charge legal service to U.S.-held captives at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

A Defense Department official has stirred up a maelstrom in the American legal community by calling on U.S. corporations to boycott law firms whose attorneys represent suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.