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Dozens Of Gitmo Cases Sent To U.S. Prosecutors

Associated Press | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

(WASHINGTON - AP) Dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainee cases have been referred to federal prosecutors for possible criminal trials in the nation's capit...

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Predictable Chaos as Guantanamo Trials Resume

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics

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With no visible progress this was another dismal outing for the Commissions, and another warning for the Obama administration that any kind of revival of the wretched trial system will remain fraught with insoluble problems.

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Will US Seek Death Penalty in First Trial of Former Gitmo Detainee?

Amnesty International | Posted 08.09.2009 | World

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Last month, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani became the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be brought to the United States for trial outside of the military commission system.

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Why Trial Date for African Embassy Bombing Suspect Is Good News

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

The government will not use any statements made by the suspect in secret prisons, nor will the evidence "be very different" from that used when his alleged co-conspirators were tried by the federal court in 2001.

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U.S. Says It Will Preserve Secret Jails for Terror Case

nytimes.com | BENJAMIN WEISER and SCOTT SHANE | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

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The government will agree to preserve the secret overseas sites where a defendant in a terror case was once held and, his lawyers say, subjected to ha...

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One Step Closer To Closing Gitmo

The Progress Report | Posted 07.11.2009 | New York

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David Rivkin warned that because of Obama's actions to close Guantanamo, there will soon be "hundreds of terrorists walking around this country."

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Embassy Bombing Widow "Relieved" By Guantanamo Detainee Trial

ABC News | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

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Susan Hirsch, a college professor from Donora, Penn., and her husband, a Kenyan citizen named Abdurrahman Abdullah, were running an errand at the U.S....

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My Message To Obama: Great Speech, But No Military Commissions and No "Preventive Detention"

Andy Worthington | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

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Look at the sentence, "Hold[ing] individuals to keep them from carrying out an act of war," replace "an act of war" with "any crime," and you will realize why the proposed policy is so terrifying.

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