Did You Serve on a War Crimes Jury at Guantánamo Bay? We Want to Know.

The Times is looking for officers who were selected to serve on military commissions panels at Camp Justice to discuss the experience, within guidelines set by the court.

Share full article

A view of the jury box from the vantage point of the judge’s bench in the main courtroom at Guantánamo Bay, seen in an image provided by the Defense Department.

The Pentagon has airlifted U.S. officers to serve on military commissions panels at Guantánamo Bay twice this year. The first time was in January, to decide a sentence for two Malaysian prisoners who were convicted in the 2002 Bali bombing conspiracy. Then, an 11-member panel deliberated a sentence for Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, a former battlefield commander for Al Qaeda in Afghanistan in the 2000s.

The military judges have told the jury pool members, including those who were selected to serve on a panel, that they are free to publicly discuss their observations and experiences but that they cannot identify other officers on the panel or discuss internal deliberations.

We are interested in interviewing members within those guidelines. We are also interested in your experience in the new housing accommodations that were opened for panel members, and whether you followed the news on what became of the case.

For example, in late 2021, we interviewed the foreman of the jury that had recommended clemency in a sentencing case. He agreed to be publicly identified.

Please share your experience in the questionnaire below.

We will read every response and reach out to you if we would like to learn more. We will not share your contact information outside the Times newsroom or use it for any other purpose besides getting in touch with you. And we will not publish any part of your response without discussing it with you first and verifying your information.

Did You Serve on a War Crimes Jury at Guantánamo Bay?

*We will not publish any part of your submission without contacting you first.

Carol Rosenberg reports on the wartime prison and court at Guantánamo Bay. She has been covering the topic since the first detainees were brought to the U.S. base in 2002. More about Carol Rosenberg