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The Huffington Post November 13, 2009

Closing Guantanamo

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Admiral: I Can Empty Guantánamo Camps In 10 Days

The Miami Herald | Carol Rosenberg | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- The military can comply with a White House order to empty the detention center and clear all 221 war-on-terror capti...

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Guantanamo Uighurs' Rights To Be Considered By Supreme Court

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide whether Guantanamo detainees who are considered no threat can be ordered released in the...

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Lawyer Blasts "Congressional Depravity" on Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Lt. Col. David Frakt said Congress is still behaving unconstitutionally with regard to the right of the Executive branch and the Judiciary to order the release of prisoners from Guantanamo.

75 Guantanamo Prisoners Cleared for Release; 31 Could Leave Today

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

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If the rationale for not releasing the Yemenis from Guantánamo was extended to the U.S. prison system, no prisoner would ever be released at the end of their sentence, because prison "might have radicalized" them.

Guantanamo Envoy: U.S. Should Have Taken Cleared Prisoners; Some Should Never Have Been Held

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

To my mind, President Obama missed a golden opportunity to bring 17 Uighur prisoners to the U.S. in his early days in office.

Obama Still On Track To Close Gitmo By January

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon's top lawyer on Thursday said the Obama administration remains committed to closing the Guantanamo Bay prison by early...

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No Escape From Guantanamo: The Latest Habeas Rulings

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

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Rulings made by District Court judges in the habeas corpus appeals of prisoners held at Guantánamo seemed to confirm that the courts were uniquely placed to deliver justice to the prisoners.

Who Are the Two Syrians Released From Guantanamo to Portugal?

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

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Their stories, as revealed in publicly available documents from Guantánamo, reveal that neither man had any connection whatsoever to international terrorism.

Guantanamo Detainees Protested Over Strip Searches, Humiliation

Miami Herald | Posted 08.15.2009 | World

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For two weeks in June, two dozen war-on-terror captives staged a sit-in at an exercise yard in a maximum-security prison camp -- refusing to budge fro...

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Guantánamo Closing Faces Major Hurdles, Causing Headaches For The White House

New York Times | DAVID JOHNSTON and ELISABETH BUMILLER | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- With six months left before a White House deadline, the Obama administration is struggling with legal, political and logistical problems...

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Never Forget: The International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

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Sadly, our celebrity-obsessed world is unlikely to pay much attention to the International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture, as the death of Michael Jackson dominates headlines.

Empty Evidence: The Stories of the Saudis Released From Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

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Khalid Saad Mohammed seized from a hospital in Pakistan and sold to the U.S. military. But the authorities in GITMO had never managed to build up a credible case against him.

Lieberman: Obama Should Consider Keeping Guantanamo Open

The Plum Line | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

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Joe Lieberman's Senate office confirms to me that he said in an interview to air later today that President Obama should consider keeping Guantanamo B...

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Who Are the Four Guantanamo Uighurs Sent to Bermuda?

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

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The Uighurs should never have been held at all; the Pentagon was only interested in them because of the intelligence they might have provided about the activities of the Chinese government.

From Guantanamo to the South Pacific: Is This a Joke?

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

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Could there be an answer to the Obama administration's Uighur problem?

Death at Guantanamo Hovers Over Obama's Middle East Visit

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

A death at Guantánamo is always felt keenly in the Muslim world, and is also uncomfortable for the Obama administration, which claims that it is running a "humane" facility.

Free The Guantanamo Uighurs!

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

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Obama needs to find the courage to resist the shrill opportunism of some of his least principled colleagues, and to order the Uighurs' release into the United States.

Forgotten: The Second Anniversary of a Guantanamo Suicide

Andy Worthington | Posted 06.30.2009 | World

Today, unnoticed in the Western media (although I can't vouch for the Arabic world) is the second anniversary of the death at Guantánamo -- apparently by suicide -- of Abdul Rahman al-Amri.

Can We Have Security Without Fear?

Deepak Chopra | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics

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In his ongoing efforts to treat the American public as they have rarely been treated -- that is, as adults -- Obama pointed out several rational things.

Land of the Safe and Home of the Cruel

David Bromwich | Posted 06.24.2009 | Politics

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Obama's National Archives speech was one more by Barack Obama that deferred action. It suggested the comprehension of an enormous wrong which it decided only partly to remedy.

Three Uneasy Questions About Torture

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics

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What happened? Why did it happen? What can be done to prevent it from happening again and again?

To Detain or Not o Detain

Stephen Herrington | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics

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How do you treat a terrorist/soldier in a new order of conflict?

Transferring Some Guantanamo Detainees to the U.S. Will Actually Make America Safer

Robert Creamer | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics

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Why take the "chance" by bringing additional Guantanamo detainees to our shores? Because it is essential to our national security that we close it down -- and this step is necessary to make that happen.

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.

Glenn Beck Sub Holds Sane Discussion On Gitmo With Ron Paul (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics

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Well, you have to give credit where credit is due. Glenn Beck takes time off from his eponymous Fox News show, no doubt to nurse the scars he receive...

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