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Blog Entries by Andy Worthington from 02/2009

Who's Running Guantanamo?

| Posted 02.09.2009 | World
Read More: Geneva Conventions, Hunger Strike, Terrorism, Abdul Rahim Al-Nashiri, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Lt. Col. Yvonne Bradley, Death in Guantanamo, Susan Crawford, Binyam Mohamed, David Addington, Military Commissions Act, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Dick Cheney, Politics, Bush Administration Torture, Guantanamo Hunger Strike, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Robert Gates, Sandra Hodgkinson, Breaking Politics News, Col. James Pohl, Mohammed Al-Qahtani, Tara Jones, Closing Guantanamo, Torture, World News

On January 20, the answer to that question seemed obvious. However, on January 29, the Commissions' recently appointed chief judge provided the first challenge to the president's plans.

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Bad News, Good News For The Guantanamo Uighurs

| Posted 02.19.2009 | World
Read More: US Supreme Court, Judge Judith Rogers, US Appeals Court, Adel Hakimjan, Terrorism, Judge Ricardo Urbina, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, US District Court, Boumediene v. Bush, Adel Abdul Hakim, Barack Obama, Enemy Combatant, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Politics, UN Convention Against Torture, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Judge A. Raymond Randolph, Albania, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson, Huzaifa Parhat, Sweden, China, US Asylum, Guantanamo Files, World News

First, the good news. Adel Abdul Hakim, one of five Uighurs (Muslims from China's oppressed Xinjiang province), who was released from Guantánamo in M...

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Who Is Binyam Mohamed, The British Resident Released From Guantanamo?

| Posted 02.23.2009 | World
Read More: Afghanistan, Morocco, Pakistan, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Binyam Mohamed, Col. Ralph Kohlmann, Military Commissions, UK Government, Politics, Clive Stafford Smith, Breaking Politics News, Dark Prison, Torture, Extraordinary Rendition, World News

I thought it appropriate to relate a few anecdotes that bring Binyam the human being, rather than Binyam the prisoner, to life.

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