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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 ...
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 ...
Many Ex-Detainees Returning to Terrorism, Pentagon Documents Say
By David Sessions - Politics DailyAbout one in five of the 560 detainees transferred from Guantanamo Bay to countries abroad are suspected of engaging in terrorist activity, the New York Times reports. The unclassified Pentagon report comes as the Obama administration has learned that a detainee released in 2007 is now working with the al-Qaeda group in Yemen that sponsored the Christmas Day bombing attempt aboard a Detroit-bound airliner. An earlier Pentagon report, released in May, found that one in seven of the then-534 released detainees was suspected of involvement in terrorist activity. President Obama inherited 242 ...
U.S. Sends Six Guantanamo Detainees to Yemen
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailySix detainees held for years without trial at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been transferred to Yemen, as part of the Obama administration's plan to reduce the population at the U.S. military prison. A senior White House official told The New York Times that the recent repatriations came on the heels of the transfer of another Yemeni detainee in September. The administration is testing the president's policy, which he hopes will result in the closing of the prison. Fourteen detainees from Yemen were sent home while George W. Bush was president. Over 90 Yemenis remain at Guantanamo, nearly ...
Six Yemeni Detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Be Repatriated
By David Sessions - Politics DailySix of the 97 Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay and four Afghans will be repatriated to Yemen, possibly leading the way for dozens more to return to that country, the Washington Post reports. The transfer is the first major step in dealing with the largest group of detainees at the Cuba prison and toward President Obama's goal of closing it. Questions about Yemen's ability to monitor and rehabilitate returning detainees have held up negotiations so far. Critics of repatriation argue that sending detainees to a country where al-Qaeda is believed to be flourishing is essentially returning ...
Democrats Leave Door Open for Gitmo Prisoners in U.S.: 'Supermax Means Something'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailySenate Democrats defeated a Republican effort to prevent building or upgrading prisons in the U.S. if they will house detainees transferred from the American prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The measure would have applied to prisons in New York where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be tried in a civilian criminal court, a decision announced recently by Attorney General Eric Holder. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) sponsored the amendment and told fellow senators Tuesday, "If you want terrorists here, then vote against this amendment." Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chair of the Senate Intelligence ...
Obama's 'Gitmo North' Prison in Homestate Illinois. Will It Fly?
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyAs the Obama administration struggles to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison, a proposal to house some of the detainees in a nearly vacant prison in Obama's home state of Illinois--promoted by Democrats Gov. Pat Quinn and Sen. Dick Durbin--met stiffening resistance on Monday from Illinois House Republicans. "This is just a bad idea, right? They haven't thought it all through," Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) told Politics Daily. "And I think from a political point of view, I think the subtext here is there are very few states that the president can reach out to." ...
Ad Campaign Aimed at Closing Guantanamo Bay Prison
By Shahzad Chaudhary - Politics DailyAn advocacy group that includes at least two retired generals Tuesday launched a national TV and Internet ad campaign urging Americans to push Congress to shut down the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying failure to do so would serve as a recruiting tool for al-Qaida and harm the moral stature of the U.S. ...
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