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Military Releases Reuters Photographer After Detaining Him for Over a Year
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe U.S. military has released a Reuters photographer who was held without charges for nearly a year and a half, Reuters reports. The military has not explained why it held Jassam Mohammed, a Baghdad native who worked as a freelance photographer for international news agencies, saying the evidence against him is classified. U.S. and Iraqi forces burst into Mohammed's home in Mahmudiya in the middle of the night in September 2008. He was taken to two different U.S. prisons in Iraq during his time in captivity as the military described him as a "security threat" because of his "activities with ...
Plan to Move Guantanamo Detainees Hits Funding Roadblock
By David Sessions - Politics DailyA plan to move the some of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay to an underutilized correctional facility in Illinois hit an unexpected roadblock when Congress refused to allocate funds for purchasing the prison, the New York Times reports. Without that funding, the White House says it will likely be unable to close the infamous military prison in Cuba until at least 2011. President Obama has admitted that his administration will not meet the Jan. 22 deadline for closing Guantanamo that he set shortly after taking office. Still, earlier this month he directed officials to move "as expeditiously as ...
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