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Some Gitmo Detainees Returned to Terrorist Ways After Release, Report Says
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyOf the 66 Guantanamo Bay detainees freed in the two years since President Obama took office, a handful are suspected of going back to their terrorist ways, according to a new report by the Director of National Intelligence. Two of the released inmates "are confirmed" as re-engaging in terrorism or insurgencies, and another three are suspected of such activities, says an ABC News account of the report from DNI Director James Clapper. The five former detainees are not named in the unclassified summary version of the report. As of Oct. 1, the Pentagon had transferred nearly 600 detainees from ...
Remember How Obama Promised to Close Guantanamo Bay?
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Sept. 24) -- What should be done about Gitmo? In a long review of three publications on the subject for The New York Review of Books, David Cole ponders this continually vexing question. Allegedly conceived, Cole writes, as a "hole into which suspects would for all practical purposes disappear, never to be heard from again," the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay was set up in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks by the Bush administration. It incurred widespread domestic and international outrage since it first began accepting prisoners in October 2001. And yet it has survived virtually ...
Al-Qosi, Osama bin Laden's Cook, Convicted at Guantanamo
By Dana Chivvis - AOL NewsOsama bin Laden's onetime cook has been convicted of conspiring with al-Qaida and providing material support to a terrorist organization. Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al-Qosi, a 50-year-old Sudanese man, today pleaded guilty to the charges against him at the Guantanamo military commission. Specifically, he was accused of guarding bin Laden and helping him escape from U.S. forces at Afghanistan's Tora Bora caves in late 2001. Al-Qosi has been at Guantanamo for eight years and is only the fourth inmate to be convicted since the prison opened to terrorism suspects in 2002, MSNBC reports. His is the ...
Rules Are Strict for Journalists Covering Gitmo
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsGUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL STATION, Cuba (July 1) -- The Pentagon last month barred four reporters from Guantanamo Bay for revealing the name of a witness against the orders of the military judge. The incident sparked renewed attention to the balance between security and transparency at a place that houses what U.S. officials have called the "worst of the worst." Journalists chaff at the restrictions placed on them here, but the military insists the rules are needed to ensure security. Some restrictions are straightforward: All pictures and video must be reviewed to ensure they don't violate ...
Inside the Guantanamo Detention Facility: A Slideshow Look
By Graydon Gordian - Politics DailyGUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- Today, 181 prisoners remain at Guantanamo Bay detention camp, despite the Obama administration's initial pledge to close the facility by this past January. The administration plans to move some detainees to the Thomson Correctional Center in northern Illinois. The rest have either received a recommendation for release from the Department of Justice or would be transferred overseas. But the planning process has been slowed by the need to get congressional funding for the purchase of the new facility and by complaints from human rights groups. They argue that relocation ...
Ruling: Bagram Detainees Cannot Use US Courts
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (May 21) -- Detainees at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan cannot use U.S. courts to challenge their imprisonment the way detainees in Guantanamo Bay have, a federal appeals court ruled today. The United States is holding the detainees at the military prison on Afghan territory through a cooperative arrangement with Afghanistan, three appeals court judges said in a unanimous decision turning aside the request of a Tunisian and two Yemeni prisoners. The jurisdiction of the U.S. courts does not extend to foreigners held at Bagram in the Afghan theater of war, added the judges, who ...
Accused Terrorist Omar Khadr Delays Hearing at Guantanamo
By Graydon Gordian - Politics DailyGUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba – Accused war criminal Omar Khadr initially did not show up for the second day of his pretrial hearing Thursday because of what his lawyers described as severe pain in his left eye. The absence of Khadr, a 23-year-old Canadian citizen captured in Afghanistan and charged with murder, conspiracy and support of terrorism, sparked a debate in the courtroom. Eventually Col. Patrick Parrish, the presiding judge, called a recess to give Khadr's attorneys a chance to convince him to attend. If Khadr failed to show, Parrish said he would order him to be brought to court. ...
Guantánamo Detainee's Torture Claim Dominates Hearing
By Graydon Gordian - Politics DailyGUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- The pretrial hearing for the youngest accused war criminal in modern history began Wednesday with a judge ruling that the military tribunal could consider as evidence Omar Khadr's statements that he was tortured during interrogations. Col. Patrick Parrish, presiding at the hearing, rejected the motion by prosecuting attorneys Jeffery Groharing and Air Force Capt. Chris Eason to suppress an affidavit that included accusations of torture by Khadr, a 23-year-old Canadian citizen captured in Afghanistan and charged with murder, conspiracy and support of terrorism. ...
Commissions vs. Courts: Abdulmutallab, KSM Rekindle Terrorist Trial Debate
By Katie Glueck - Politics DailyThe White House said Friday that it would move the trial of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) from New York City to an as-yet-undetermined alternative location. This announcement came after a bipartisan group of lawmakers called the decision to try KSM a few blocks away from Ground Zero dangerous, counterproductive and expensive. For the moment, he's still slated to be tried in the US, though options now include a military base. The KSM controversy is the latest development in the debate over whether terrorists should be tried in American courts or in military commissions ...
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