Carol Rosenberg
@carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social
Journalist. New York Times beat reporter covering the court, prison and other aspects of life at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay. Former Miami Herald Middle East correspondent. About how to reach me here: https://www.nytimes.com/by/carol-rosenberg.
Latest: The new judge in Guantanamo's 9/11 case declines to cancel this month's hearing. Focus is to let defense and prosecution lawyers question him for possible disqualifying ethical conflicts.
Defense lawyers wanted a delay while the federal court decides the plea deal appeal.
Defense lawyers wanted a delay while the federal court decides the plea deal appeal.
December 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Latest: The new judge in Guantanamo's 9/11 case declines to cancel this month's hearing. Focus is to let defense and prosecution lawyers question him for possible disqualifying ethical conflicts.
Defense lawyers wanted a delay while the federal court decides the plea deal appeal.
Defense lawyers wanted a delay while the federal court decides the plea deal appeal.
The military has killed, at best, low-level people, whose role in the drug trade may have been taking a payment for moving cocaine from one spot to another. At worst, some of those killed could have been fishermen, migrants or others with no ties to the drug trade.
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Intelligence on U.S. Military’s Boat Strikes Is Limited
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December 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The military has killed, at best, low-level people, whose role in the drug trade may have been taking a payment for moving cocaine from one spot to another. At worst, some of those killed could have been fishermen, migrants or others with no ties to the drug trade.
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Deputy Chief Big Jim Riches, who lost his firefighter son on 9/11 and attributed his subsequent illness to months of exposure to toxic dust at ground zero, has died. An obituary.
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James Riches, Fire Chief Who Lost Firefighter Son on 9/11, Dies at 74
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December 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Deputy Chief Big Jim Riches, who lost his firefighter son on 9/11 and attributed his subsequent illness to months of exposure to toxic dust at ground zero, has died. An obituary.
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Obituary: A fallen 9/11 firefighter’s fire chief father succumbs to illnesses attributed to World Trade Center disease.
James Riches, Fire Chief Who Lost Firefighter Son on 9/11, Dies at 74
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November 30, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Obituary: A fallen 9/11 firefighter’s fire chief father succumbs to illnesses attributed to World Trade Center disease.
For your weekend, if you missed it in the holiday crush.
Boats already stopped in the water. People about to die. Clues to drone and manned aircraft fighting systems.
—Findings of our freeze-frame study of the Trump administration’s promotional videos of its bombing campaign on suspected drug smuggling boats.
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—Findings of our freeze-frame study of the Trump administration’s promotional videos of its bombing campaign on suspected drug smuggling boats.
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What the Pentagon’s Attack Videos Reveal About the Boat Strikes at Sea
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November 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
For your weekend, if you missed it in the holiday crush.
Boats already stopped in the water. People about to die. Clues to drone and manned aircraft fighting systems.
—Findings of our freeze-frame study of the Trump administration’s promotional videos of its bombing campaign on suspected drug smuggling boats.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
—Findings of our freeze-frame study of the Trump administration’s promotional videos of its bombing campaign on suspected drug smuggling boats.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
What the Pentagon’s Attack Videos Reveal About the Boat Strikes at Sea
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November 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Boats already stopped in the water. People about to die. Clues to drone and manned aircraft fighting systems.
—Findings of our freeze-frame study of the Trump administration’s promotional videos of its bombing campaign on suspected drug smuggling boats.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
—Findings of our freeze-frame study of the Trump administration’s promotional videos of its bombing campaign on suspected drug smuggling boats.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
It’s packout day at Camp Justice at Guantánamo Bay. The war court is dark pending the arrival of three military judges on Dec. 13 for pretrial hearings in the death penalty cases the week before Christmas.
November 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
It’s packout day at Camp Justice at Guantánamo Bay. The war court is dark pending the arrival of three military judges on Dec. 13 for pretrial hearings in the death penalty cases the week before Christmas.
Latest: The three military judges have consolidated all three hearings scheduled for December into a single week, Dec. 15-19. The two new judges handling the 9/11 defendants will share the big court. The Cole case will have pretrial motions in the little courtroom next door.
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Latest: The three military judges have consolidated all three hearings scheduled for December into a single week, Dec. 15-19. The two new judges handling the 9/11 defendants will share the big court. The Cole case will have pretrial motions in the little courtroom next door.
Guantánamo’s lone life-serving convict returned to the war court yesterday, and talked about torture 17 years after his last military commission appearance. An exclusive, from the offshore court. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Qaeda Convict Returns to Guantánamo Court 17 Years After Trial
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November 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Guantánamo’s lone life-serving convict returned to the war court yesterday, and talked about torture 17 years after his last military commission appearance. An exclusive, from the offshore court. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Good morning from Camp Justice at Guantánamo Bay, where the flags are at half-mast across the installation for Dick Cheney. At the war court today we expect testimony related to prosecution efforts to use double hearsay at the eventual USS Cole trial.
November 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Good morning from Camp Justice at Guantánamo Bay, where the flags are at half-mast across the installation for Dick Cheney. At the war court today we expect testimony related to prosecution efforts to use double hearsay at the eventual USS Cole trial.
Good morning from U.S. Navy base Guantanamo Bay, where you can still spot traces of the damage left by Hurricane Melissa. The USS Cole case hearing starts in a closed session today -- no defendant, no public. It should open for some discussion of pretrial motions later today.
November 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Good morning from U.S. Navy base Guantanamo Bay, where you can still spot traces of the damage left by Hurricane Melissa. The USS Cole case hearing starts in a closed session today -- no defendant, no public. It should open for some discussion of pretrial motions later today.
Good morning from Camp Justice, where the flags are at half-mast for Dick Cheney above the faded war court emblem. We expect pretrial arguments today in the USS Cole case, including one on whether the jury should see Al Qaeda videos about martyrdom.
Our trial guide: www.nytimes.com/article/uss-...
Our trial guide: www.nytimes.com/article/uss-...
November 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Good morning from Camp Justice, where the flags are at half-mast for Dick Cheney above the faded war court emblem. We expect pretrial arguments today in the USS Cole case, including one on whether the jury should see Al Qaeda videos about martyrdom.
Our trial guide: www.nytimes.com/article/uss-...
Our trial guide: www.nytimes.com/article/uss-...
Scoop: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has tasked the deputy defense secretary, Steve Feinberg, to oversee the USS Cole bombing case, with the exclusive authority to decide whether to negotiate a plea deal that would avert a death-penalty trial. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
Hegseth Assigns Deputy to Oversee U.S.S. Cole Bombing Case
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November 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Scoop: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has tasked the deputy defense secretary, Steve Feinberg, to oversee the USS Cole bombing case, with the exclusive authority to decide whether to negotiate a plea deal that would avert a death-penalty trial. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
Good morning from Camp Justice at Guantanamo Bay. Col. Matthew Fitzgerald, the war court judge, has set a noon start for these pretrial hearings in the USS Cole bombing case. Defense lawyers have been meeting with the defendant, catching up for lost communications during the government shutdown.
November 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Good morning from Camp Justice at Guantanamo Bay. Col. Matthew Fitzgerald, the war court judge, has set a noon start for these pretrial hearings in the USS Cole bombing case. Defense lawyers have been meeting with the defendant, catching up for lost communications during the government shutdown.
War court hearings, K-12 classes and other operations resume today as Guantanamo Bay recovers from the government shutdown and Hurricane Melissa. Navy families and some ICE agents have returned from a three-week evacuation. No $$ estimates yet. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
Hurricane Melissa Evacuees Return to Guantánamo Base
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November 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
War court hearings, K-12 classes and other operations resume today as Guantanamo Bay recovers from the government shutdown and Hurricane Melissa. Navy families and some ICE agents have returned from a three-week evacuation. No $$ estimates yet. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
Good afternoon from Camp Justice at Guantanamo Bay. The press room and court feed are up and running. We can see debris and* other remnants of Hurricane Melissa but the evacuees have been returning and operations are resuming.
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November 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Good afternoon from Camp Justice at Guantanamo Bay. The press room and court feed are up and running. We can see debris and* other remnants of Hurricane Melissa but the evacuees have been returning and operations are resuming.
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Now gathering at Andrews airbase outside of DC: The military judge, defense and prosecution lawyers, contract Arabic linguists and court stenographers for a brief hearing in the USS Cole case. Here is our updated guide.
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Trial Guide: The Cole Bombing Case at Guantánamo Bay
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November 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Now gathering at Andrews airbase outside of DC: The military judge, defense and prosecution lawyers, contract Arabic linguists and court stenographers for a brief hearing in the USS Cole case. Here is our updated guide.
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Updated: Our tracker on the military strikes on boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, with 20th strike disclosed by Southcom, the Pentagon outpost in Miami.
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Tracking U.S. Military Killings in Boat Attacks
In two months, the Trump administration has killed dozens of people it accused of smuggling drugs aboard boats. Here are the acknowledged strikes so far.
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November 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Updated: Our tracker on the military strikes on boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, with 20th strike disclosed by Southcom, the Pentagon outpost in Miami.
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People who read the memo said it asserts that boats believed to be carrying narcotics are lawful military targets because their cargo would generate revenue that cartels could use to buy military equipment to wage the purported armed conflict.
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Memo Blessing Boat Strikes Is Said to Rely on Trump’s Claims About Cartels
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November 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
People who read the memo said it asserts that boats believed to be carrying narcotics are lawful military targets because their cargo would generate revenue that cartels could use to buy military equipment to wage the purported armed conflict.
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Emails offer a look into the early days of the migrant deportation operation at Guantánamo Bay.
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A Look Into the Early Days of Migrant Detentions at Guantánamo
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November 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Emails offer a look into the early days of the migrant deportation operation at Guantánamo Bay.
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The United States killed six more men in Sunday strikes on suspected drug boats. Our news article and tracker on this offensive, which has killed at least 76 people in 19 attacks in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea since early September.
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U.S. Military Kills 6 in Strikes on Suspected Drug Boats, Hegseth Says
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November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The United States killed six more men in Sunday strikes on suspected drug boats. Our news article and tracker on this offensive, which has killed at least 76 people in 19 attacks in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea since early September.
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Updated: Our tracking guide with the Pentagon’s latest lethal strike on a boat suspected of drug trafficking. Three men were killed in the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Hegseth posted last night, raising the toll to at least 70 killed in this bombing campaign. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Tracking U.S. Military Killings in Boat Attacks
In two months, the Trump administration has killed dozens of people it accused of smuggling drugs aboard boats. Here are the acknowledged strikes so far.
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November 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Updated: Our tracking guide with the Pentagon’s latest lethal strike on a boat suspected of drug trafficking. Three men were killed in the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Hegseth posted last night, raising the toll to at least 70 killed in this bombing campaign. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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EE. UU. ataca embarcaciones en el Caribe y el Pacífico: esta es la cuenta hasta ahora
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November 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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The U.S. has struck again in its two-month-old campaign of bombing boats suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean. Sixteen boats sunk, at least 67 people dead.
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Latest U.S. Strike on Suspected Drug Boat Kills 2 in Pacific, Hegseth Says
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November 5, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The U.S. has struck again in its two-month-old campaign of bombing boats suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean. Sixteen boats sunk, at least 67 people dead.
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EE. UU. ataca embarcaciones en el Caribe y el Pacífico: esta es la cuenta hasta ahora
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November 3, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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