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Gitmo Lawyers: The Last Growth Industry?

William Fisher | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Bunyam Mohamed, Pentagon, Clive Stafford Smith, Obama Gitmo, Enemy Combatants, Guantanamo Bay, President Barack Obama, American Bar Association, War Prisoners, Kafka, World News
William Fisher

The Pentagon is offering $39,407-$130,211 a year for lawyers who will help respond to habeas corpus petitions filed by detainees in federal courts.

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

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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
Andy Worthington

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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Judge Orders Release of Guantanamo's Forgotten Child

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Belkacem Bensayah, Al-Qaeda, Terrorism, Pakistan, Chad, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Children in Guantanamo, Barack Obama, Habeas Corpus, Politics, Judge Richard Leon, Enemy Combatants, Mohammed El-Gharani, Saudi Arabia, Guantanamo Torture, Clive Stafford Smith, Hisham Sliti, Muaz Al-Alawi, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, The Guantanamo Files, Closing Guantanamo, Gitmo, World News
Andy Worthington

Just two weeks ago, in a habeas corpus case in a Washington D.C. court, Judge Richard Leon turned the clock back to January 11, 2002 (the day Guantán...

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U.S. Justice Department drops "dirty bomb plot" allegation against Binyam Mohamed

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Paul Wolfowitz, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, UK High Court, Morocco, Terrorism, Jose Padilla, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, CIA Torture, Clive Stafford Smith, Washington Post, Dark Prison, Binyam Mohamed, Justice Department, Defense Department, Dick Cheney, Military Commissions, Habeas Corpus, Politics News
Andy Worthington

As the Washington Post reported yesterday, the U.S. Justice Department has dropped the key allegation against British resident and Guantánamo prisone...

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British Court Rules Against UK and US in Case of Guantanamo Torture Victim Binyam Mohamed

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Clive Stafford-Smith, John Bellinger, David Miliband, CIA Secret Prisons, US State Department, UK High Court, Terrorism, American Torture, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Lt. Col. Yvonne Bradley, Susan Crawford, Binyam Mohamed, Military Commissions, Politics News
Andy Worthington

In the lawless world of Guantánamo -- and the United States' even murkier network of secret prisons run by or on behalf of the CIA -- it has taken si...

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