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Closing Guantanamo

Chaos and Lies: Why Obama Was Right To Halt The Guantanamo Trials

Andy Worthington | Posted 02.22.2009 | World

Read More: CIA Secret Prisons, Col. Stephen Henley, Terrorism, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Omar Khadr, Canada, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Dick Cheney, Politics, Khalid El-Masri, Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, Bush Administration Torture, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Bagram, Mohammed El-Gharani, Laid Saidi, Maher Arar, Marwan Jabour, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, The Guantanamo Files, President Bush, Syria, Fbi, Extraordinary Rendition, Closing Guantanamo, Torture, World News
Andy Worthington

In one of his first acts as president, Obama ordered prosecutors in Guantanamo's Military Commission trials to ask for a four-month stay on all proceedings.

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Judge Orders Release of Guantanamo's Forgotten Child

Andy Worthington | Posted 02.15.2009 | 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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Arianna Discusses Closing Gitmo on MSNBC

Huff TV | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics

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Closing Guantánamo Is Easier Than You Think, Mr. President

Shayana Kadidal | Posted 02.13.2009 | World

Read More: Preventive Detention, Yemen, Guantanamo Uighurs, Obama, Closing Guantanamo, Guantanamo, World News
Shayana Kadidal

Our new president should discard the last seven years of legal novelties in favor of the traditional model of detaining only those men who can and should be charged and tried for some criminal offense.

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Closing Gitmo Requires Tough Judgments On Inmates

AP | ANDREW O. SELSKY | Posted 02.13.2009 | World

Read More: Bush Guantanamo, Bush Administration, Barack Obama, Obama Guantanamo, GuantáNamo Bay, Uighur, Guantanamo Uighurs, Gitmo, Uighurs, Closing Guantanamo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 100 Days, World News

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — President-elect Barack Obama's planned review of Guantanamo Bay prisoners, a prelude to closing the detention center, mu...

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Seven Years of Guantanamo, Seven Years of Torture and Lies

Andy Worthington | Posted 02.11.2009 | World

Read More: George Bush, Geneva Conventions, Al-Qaeda, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Maj. Gen. Michael Dunlavey, Donald Rumsfeld, Guantanamo, David Addington, Taliban, Salim Hamdan, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Dick Cheney, Osama Bin Laden, Bush Administration Torture, Guantanamo Hunger Strike, Obama Transition, Closing Guantanamo, Torture, The Guantanamo Files, World News
Andy Worthington

Seven years later, it should be abundantly clear that none of the defenders of Guantanamo who indulged in hysterical rhetoric had any idea what they were talking about.

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The Dying Days of the Guantanamo Trials

Andy Worthington | Posted 02.09.2009 | World

Read More: Mohamed Jawad, Al-Qaeda, Col. Stephen Henley, David Hicks, Guantanamo, Taliban, Omar Khadr, Dick Cheney, Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, Tarek El-Sawah, Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, Col. James Pohl, The Guantanamo Files, Closing Guantanamo, Abdul Ghani, Ahmed Al-Darbi, Afghanistan, Abdul Rahim Al-Nashiri, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, CIA Torture, Susan Crawford, David Addington, Salim Hamdan, Noor Uthman Muhammed, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Osama Bin Laden, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, Torture, Politics, World News
Andy Worthington

The Military Commissions to try Guantanamo detainees have rarely grabbed the media attention that a novel, flagship program to try "terror suspects" should have attracted.

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The Ten Lies of Dick Cheney (Part Two)

Andy Worthington | Posted 01.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: US Supreme Court, Terrorism, Vanity Fair, Abu Zubaydah, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Ibn Al-Shaykh Al-Libi, Military Commissions, Dick Cheney, Iraq War, Guantanamo Tribunals, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Col. Morris Davis, David Rose, Rasul v. Bush, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, Dick Cheney Iraq War, Closing Guantanamo, Iraq, Politics News
Andy Worthington

I have covered the Military Commissions in depth and at no point has it ever been demonstrated that the system dreamt up by Cheney and Addington in November 2001 is "fair and honest."

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Portugal Foreign Minister: European Union Should Accept Gitmo Detainees

Guardian.co.uk | Matthew Weaver and Agencies | Posted 01.11.2009 | World

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European countries should offer asylum to former terrorist suspects released from Guantánamo Bay, Portugal's foreign minister said today. In a...

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Bin Laden's Driver To Be Released From Guantanamo; Government Defeated

Andy Worthington | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Yemen, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, Capt. Keith Allred, Military Commissions, Closing Guantanamo, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Salim Hamdan, who was convicted in a trial by Military Commission at Guantánamo during the summer for providing material support for terrorism, is to be flown out of Guantánamo on Monday.

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How Guantanamo Can Be Closed: More Advice for Barack Obama

Andy Worthington | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Syria, Mohamed Jawad, US Supreme Court, Yemen, Tunisia, Terrorism, Judge Ricardo Urbina, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, Uzbekistan, Military Commissions Act, Omar Khadr, Uighurs, Barack Obama, Habeas Corpus, Military Commissions, Guantanamo Uighurs, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Enemy Combatants, Obama Guantanamo, Albania, Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, Libya, Huzaifa Parhat, President Bush, The Guantanamo Files, Iraq, China, Closing Guantanamo, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Several prominent human rights and legal organizations launched a campaign in Berlin on November 10, aimed at persuading European countries to accept cleared prisoners from Guant�namo.

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Why Guantanamo Must Be Closed: Advice for Barack Obama

Andy Worthington | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, US Supreme Court, Kandahar, Abdul Hamid Al-Ghizzawi, War on Terror, Terrorism, Unitary Executive Theory, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Donald Rumsfeld, David Addington, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Guantanamo Uighurs, Abdul Razzaq Hekmati, Enemy Combatants, Bagram, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, New York Times, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, The Guantanamo Files, Closing Guantanamo, Politics News
Andy Worthington

In an attempt to separate fact from fiction, I'd like to offer my advice, based on the three years I have spent studying Guantanamo in unprecedented detail.

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Bush Administration Developing Plan To Empty Guantanamo Bay

Washington Post | Dan Eggen, Josh White | Posted 07.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo Bay, Bush Decides on Guantanamo, Terrorism, Bush and Guantanamo, Closing Guantanamo, Politics News

The Bush administration is developing a long-range plan to empty the Guantanamo Bay military prison that could include asking Congress to spell out pr...

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