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Military Judge Denies Obama Request to Suspend Hearings at Guantanamo
By Peter Finn Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, January 29, 2009; 3:17 PM A military judge in Guantanamo Bay today denied the Obama administration's request to delay proceedings for 120 days in the case of a detainee accused of planning the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole warship, an al-Qaeda strike that killed 17 service members and injured 50 others. The decision throws into some disarray the administration's efforts to buy time to review individual detainee cases as part of its plan to close the U.S. military prison at the Guantanamo naval base in Cuba.Some Guantanamo prisoners could be released in U.S.
Some Guantanamo prisoners could be released in U.S. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Some of the Guantanamo Bay prisoners could be released into the United States while others could be put on trial in the American court system, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Wednesday. Holder, who was chosen by President Barack Obama to lead the administration's efforts to close the U.S.Conscience of a Guantanamo Prosecutor (public)
Published on Sunday, October 12, 2008 by the Los Angeles Times by Josh Meyer WASHINGTON - Darrel J. Vandeveld was in despair. The hard-nosed lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve, a self-described conformist praised by his superiors for his bravery in Iraq, had lost faith in the Guantanamo Bay war crimes tribunals in which he was a prosecutor.Guantanamo detainee freed
Guantanamo detainee freed after 4 years in prison By PAISLEY DODDS, Associated Press Writer LONDON – The first Guantanamo detainee released since President Barack Obama took office returned to Britain on Monday, saying his seven years of captivity and torture at an alleged CIA covert site in Morocco went beyond his "darkest nightmares." Binyam Mohamed's allegations — including repeated beatings and having his genitals sliced by a scalpel — have sparked lawsuits that could ensnare the American and British governments in protracted court battles. Looking frail from a hunger strike, Mohamed, who once was accused by U.S.Truths About Guantanamo Bay - from inside the Bush Administration
Lawrence B. Wilkerson was chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell (http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2009/03/some_truths_abo/?ref=fp2) There are several dimensions to the debate over the U.S. prison facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba that the media have largely missed and, thus, of which the American people are almost completely unaware.Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay Movie Review
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay reunites everyone's favorite stoners on a cross country ride that leaves you laughing at the characters, the people next to you and even yourself. The movie begins by doing the one thing that sequels rarely do: continue the story where the original left off. It literally begins with Harold in the shower getting ready to see his true love in Amsterdam and Kumar taking a massive dump while he's doing it.Musicians crank up the volume on Guantanamo debate
WASHINGTON — A coalition of mega-bands and singers outraged that music — including theirs — was cranked up to help break uncooperative detainees at Guantanamo Bay is joining retired military officers and liberal activists to rally support for President Barack Obama's push to shutter the Navy-run prison for terrorist suspects in Cuba. Pearl Jam, R.E.M., and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails are among the musicians who have joined the National Campaign to Close Guantanamo, which launched Tuesday. On behalf of the campaign, the National Security Archive in Washington is filing a Freedom of Information Act request seeking classified records that detail the use of loud music as an interrogation device.Mich. prison assessed for possible Gitmo transfers
STANDISH, Mich. – Federal and state officials visited a maximum-security prison in rural Michigan on Thursday to begin assessing its suitability to house Guantanamo Bay detainees. About a dozen state officials were joined by 18 representatives from the Defense, Justice and Homeland Security departments and the Bureau of Prisons on the tour of the lockup in Standish, said Russ Marlan, a spokesman for the Michigan Department of Corrections.Musicians don’t want tunes used for torture (Public)
Nine Inch Nails, even ‘Sesame Street’ theme used for interrogations The Associated Press Dec. 9, 2008 GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - Blaring from a speaker behind a metal grate in his tiny cell in Iraq, the blistering rock from Nine Inch Nails hit Prisoner No. 200343 like a sonic bludgeon.U.S. tried to win ex-Gitmo detainee's silence
U.S. tried to win ex-Gitmo detainee's silence By Luke Baker, Reuters March 23, 2009 from canada.com LONDON - U.S. government lawyers tried to get a British resident held at Guantanamo Bay to sign a deal saying he had never been tortured and that he would not speak to the media as a condition of his release, according to documents presented in the High Court in London.
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