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Leaked Files Shed Light on Gitmo Detainees
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Secret documents about detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison reveal new information about some of the men that the United States believes to be terrorists, according to reports about the files released by several American and European newspapers. The U.S. government criticized the publication as "unfortunate." The military detainee assessments were made public Sunday night by U.S. and European newspapers after the WikiLeaks website obtained the files. The records contain details of the more than 700 detainee interrogations and evidence the U.S. had collected against these ...
Obama Lifts Two-Year Ban on Guantanamo Trials [VIDEO]
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Guantanamo Bay Military Trials to Resume: What Do the Pundits Think?
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsIt was a top priority in his 2008 presidential campaign, but it appears that Barack Obama won't be closing Gitmo anytime soon. The White House announced on Monday that military trials will resume at the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, where a new executive order signed by the president now creates a system in which prisoners could be subject to indefinite detention. Besides reigniting the debate surrounding the legality of military tribunals, the decision will also likely allow the prosecution of Guantanamo detainees such as alleged 9/11 organizer Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who wasn't ...
Obama Restarts Military Trials at Guantanamo
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama reversed course Monday and ordered a resumption of military trials for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, making his once ironclad promise to close the isolated prison look even more distant. Guantanamo has been a major political and national security headache for the president since he took office promising to close the prison within a year, a deadline that came and went without him ever setting a new one. Obama made the change with clear reluctance, bowing to the reality that Congress' vehement opposition to trying detainees on U.S. soil leaves ...
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 ...
Gitmo Detainee Acquitted of All but 1 Charge in NY
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NEW YORK (Nov. 17) -- The first Guantanamo detainee to face a civilian trial was acquitted Wednesday of all but one of the hundreds of charges he helped unleash death and destruction on two U.S. embassies in 1998 - a mixed result for what's been viewed as a terror test case. A federal jury convicted Ahmed Ghailani of one count of conspiracy to destroy U.S. property and acquitted him on more than 280 other counts, including one murder count for each of the 224 people killed in the embassy bombings. The anonymous jurors deliberated over seven days. Shirley Shepard, AFP / Getty Images Tanzanian ...
Canadian Held at Gitmo Pleads Guilty to All Charges
By not in system - AOL NewsGUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Oct. 25) -- A Canadian prisoner at Guantanamo accused of killing an American soldier has pleaded guilty to all charges. Omar Khadr pleaded to five charges including murder in a plea agreement with military authorities. Khadr had been facing a possible life sentence if convicted at a trial that was scheduled to start Monday. He was 15 at the time of his capture. The terms of the plea deal have not yet been disclosed. The military will now hold a sentencing hearing before a jury of military officers. Khadr is accused of throwing a grenade that killed U.S. Army ...
Judge Bans Key Witness From Detainee's NY Trial
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NEW YORK (Oct. 6) -- The first civilian trial for a Guantanamo Bay detainee was delayed Wednesday after a Manhattan judge told prosecutors they cannot call their star witness. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan blocked the government from calling a man who authorities said sold explosives to the defendant, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani. Defense lawyers say investigators only learned about the witness after Ghailani underwent harsh interrogation at a secret CIA-run camp overseas between 2004 and 2006. FBI / AFP / Getty Images The civilian trial of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Khalfan ...
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 ...
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