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Senate rejects bid to restrict Guantanamo trials
Havana :: Cuba | 4 days ago
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The Senate on Thursday rejected a measure that would have required prisoners charged with involvement in the September 11 attacks to stand trial in a military court rather than a criminal court. Congress has voted several times this year to restrict...
Tags: Lindsey Graham, Senate, Obama, military commission, federal courts, senator rejected, Guantanamo Bay, senator vote
Gitmo men celebrate freedom
Koror :: Palau | 6 days ago
Credibility Six Chinese Muslim Uighurs, released on the weekend after nearly eight years locked up at Guantanamo Bay, spent their first day of freedom on Monday shopping in the Palau capital Koror. They have also pencilled in a day's swimming at the spectacular Rock...
Tags: Palauan, Muslim Uighurs, Guantanamo Bay, Uighurs Released From Gitmo, pacific islands, Pacific Island, islands nation, China, U.S, bay detainees
Guantanamo Uighurs arrive in Palau
Koror :: Palau | 8 days ago
Credibility The group arrived on the island, which agreed to a request from Washington to resettle them, on Sunday after being held for seven years at the US prison in Cuba. Johnson Toribiong, the president of Palau, met the ex-prisoners at the airport in the middle...
Tags: Palau, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Uighurs, Cuba, Barack Obama, U.S, South Pacific, Pacific Ocean, islanders nation, obama administration
S.C. Eyed for Gitmo Detainee 'Trial Run'
Charleston :: SC :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility The Navy brig in Charleston, S.C., is "very much in play" as an option to transfer Guantanamo Bay detainees for military commission hearings in the U.S., multiple sources tell Fox News. Some sources describe the Naval Consolidated Brig -- which has housed...
Tags: Guantanamo Bay, navy brig, Gitmo Detainees
Obama has no CLEAR way to PROSECUTE GITMO prisoners
President Obama is edging closer to his goal of closing the Guantanamo Bay prison: Congress has approved detainee trials on US soil and the National Defense Authorization Act, passed yesterday, attempts to repair the damaged legality of President Bush’s...
Tags: Obama, Washington, War on Terror, Guantanamo Bay, Al Qaeda, Taliban, Terrorist, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Muslim, Islam
What Constitutes Justice For Guantanamo Detainees?
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 11 days ago
Credibility President Obama's pledge to close the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by the end of his first year in office navigated one roadblock last week, when Congress agreed to allow the transfer of prisoners onto U.S. soil to face trial. But the struggle...
Tags: U.S, Barack Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, military commissions, Guantanamo Bay
Guantanamo detainees case reaches Supreme Court
London :: United Kingdom | 13 days ago
Credibility The case could further complicate the administration's plans to close the Guantanamo prison where 220 or so men are still held. The court's fourth look at the terror-suspects detention system, created by the Bush administration following the Sept. 11,...
Tags: Guantanamo Bay, Barack Obama, Britain, Cuban, president barack, bay prisoners, shut guantanamo
Record-setting 243 entries in Round the Sound race
Saint George :: Bermuda | 16 days ago
Credibility The event was organised by the Dolphin Swim Team of Bermuda and the Bermuda Open Water Swimmers. The Charity supported this year was the National Trust's "Buy Back Bermuda" Campaign. Dolphins Swim Club member Brian Frick said part of the reason the swim...
Tags: Guantanamo Bay, US Supreme Court
Bands condemn Guantanamo music use
Havana :: Cuba | 17 days ago
Credibility The announcement on Thursday came as the bands expressed support for the National Campaign to Close Guantanamo which was launched by former US military generals and politicians. The musicians launched "a formal protest of the use of music used in conjunction...
Tags: Guantanamo Bay, R.E.M., Pearl Jam, U.S, Cuba, close guantanamo, national campaign, detention facilities, Washington, guantanamo music
“Gitmo closure challenging”
Washington :: DC :: USA | 18 days ago
Credibility Senate has voted to allow more transfers of Guantanamo Bay detainees to the U.S. to face trial. The bill will now head to the White House for President Obama to sign into law. However, the prisoners will not be allowed to remain in the United States...
Tags: Barack Obama, Congress, Guantanamo Bay, bay detainees
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