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Source: 6 Gitmo Detainees Resettle In Palau

AP | JONATHAN KAMINSKY | Posted 11.01.2009 | World

Read More: White House, Cia, Gitmo Detainees, Afghanistan, Palau, Gitmo, Uighur, Obama, Chinese Muslims, Uighurs, Enemy Combatants, Guantanamo Bay, Iraq, Terrorism, China, Torture, World News

KOROR, Palau — Six Chinese Muslims released from Guantanamo Bay but still wanted at home as separatists arrived Sunday on their new tropical isl...

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Admiral: I Can Empty Guantánamo Camps In 10 Days

The Miami Herald | Carol Rosenberg | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo Bay, Tom Copeman, Closing Guantanamo, Prison Camp, Gitmo Closing, Close Gitmo, Gitmo, Detainees, Commander, White House, Enemy Combatants, Deadline, Supreme Court, Cuba, Politics News

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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Uighur Brothers: Detainee Declines Offer To Leave Guantanamo Out Of Loyalty To Ailing Brother (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 09.28.2009 | World

Read More: Bahtiyar Mahnu, Detainees, Torture, Guantanamo Bay, Enemy Combatants, Gitmo, Uighur, Uighurs, Due Process, Afghanistan, Mental Illness, Elizabeth Gilson, Palau, China, Habeas Corpus, Video, Arkin, World News

After eight years of detention, at least one Guantanamo Bay detainee declined an offer to resettle to the Pacific Island of Palau, according to The Wa...

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Camp Bucca: Military Closes Largest Detention Camp In Iraq

AP | JASON KEYSER | Posted 09.16.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq, Shiite, Abu Ghraib, Camp Cropper, Insurgency, Ronald Bucca, Soldiers, Kuwait, Enemy Combatants, Fallujah, Camp Taji, Prison, Detention Center, Camp Bucca, Baghdad, Jail, Sunni, World News

CAMP BUCCA, Iraq — The U.S. military on Wednesday closed Camp Bucca, an isolated desert prison that was once its largest lockup in Iraq, as it m...

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Is Bagram Obama's New Secret Prison?

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Geneva Conventions, Us Constitution, World, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Terrorism, President Obama, Authorization for Use of Military Force, Guantanamo, Boumediene v. Bush, Barack Obama, Judge John D. Bates, World News, Rendition, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Bush Administration, U.S. Court of Appeals, Enemy Combatants, Bagram, CIA Rendition, Bagram Detainees, Cia, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Breaking Politics News, New York Times, Bagram Habeas Corpus, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, Leon Panetta, Extraordinary Rendition, Politics News

The Obama administration is following Bush's lead by unilaterally rewriting the Geneva Conventions, presumably to allow it to continue exploiting prisoners of war for their supposed intelligence value.

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Who Are the Two Syrians Released From Guantanamo to Portugal?

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: War on Terror, World, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Review Task Force, Farouq Saif, Muhammed Khan Tumani, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Fbi, Camp X-Ray, FBI Guantanamo, US Congress, Taliban, Justice Department, Barack Obama, World News, Al Qaeda, Politics News, Kandahar, Enemy Combatants, Abdul Nasir Al-Tumani, Moammar Dokhan, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Portugal Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Bay, Mohammed Al-Tumani, The Guantanamo Files, Portugal, Syria, Camp Delta, Closing Guantanamo, Politics News

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

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Mohammed Khan Tumani Identifieb By U.S. As Guantanamo Detainee Released To Portugal

AP | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

Read More: Syria, Detainees, Syrian, U.S. Military, GuantáNamo Bay, Enemy Combatants, Guantanamo Detainees, Moammar Badawi Dokhan, Pardiss Kebriaei, Mohammed Khan Tumani, Mental Deterioration, Portugal, Khan Tumani, World News

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Guantanamo inmate who said the prison's harsh conditions drove him to attempt suicide has been sent to Portugal, the U...

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As Judge Orders Release of Tortured Guantanamo Prisoner, Government Refuses to Concede Defeat

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.31.2009 | World

Read More: Supreme Court, Mohamed Jawad, Col. Stephen Henley, Department of Defense, War on Terror, George W. Bush, President Obama, 9/11, Guantanamo, Taliban, Judge Ellen Huvelle, Eric Holder, World News, Habeas Corpus, Dick Cheney, Politics News, Enemy Combatants, Robert Gates, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, US Torture, Guantanamo Bay, Advocacy, World, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Task Force, Justice Department, US District Court, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Al Qaeda, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Torture, World News

I still have no firm idea why Obama and Holder have allowed the Justice Department to pursue unjustifiable and unwinnable habeas cases, resulting in humiliation after humiliation.

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Military Commissions: Government Flounders, As Admiral Hutson Nails Problems

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Preventive Detention, Department of Defense, David Kris, World, War on Terror, Terrorism, Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Senate Armed Services Committee, US District Court, Justice Department, John Hutson, Barack Obama, World News, Military Commissions, Politics News, Enemy Combatants, Jeh Johnson, National Security, Col. Morris Davis, Guantanamo Bay, Federal Court, William J. Haynes II, Politics News

A legal quagmire that lacks legitimacy and maintains key policies of the Bush administration's "War on Terror" is almost too awful to contemplate.

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Holder: Indefinite Detention Will Include Measures Of Due Process

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

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Eric Holder asserted on Wednesday that terrorism suspects indefinitely detained by the United States would be granted opportunities for due process, b...

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Coming This Summer: Gitmo by the Dozen!

Spencer Green | Posted 06.20.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Guantanamo Bay, Enemy Combatants, Gitmo Detainees, Summer Movies, Gitmo, Torture, Guantanamo Detainees, Comedy News

(INT. CONFERENCE ROOM - BENJAMIN SONNEE (Matthew McConaughey) is in the middle of a PowerPoint presentation, which ends with the image of a giant "Monopoly Man" crushing poor people; everyone in the room applauds, Benjamin takes off his shirt.)

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Guantanamo: A Prison Built On Lies

Andy Worthington | Posted 06.19.2009 | World

Read More: Guantanamo Evidence, Foreign Affairs, Abu Zubaydah, President Obama, Administrative Review Boards, Guantanamo, Fbi, Obama Administration, Taliban, Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, Habeas Corpus, Dick Cheney, Politics News, Politics, Enemy Combatants, Obama Guantanamo, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Mosaic Theory, Guantanamo Bay, Judge Gladys Kessler, Advocacy, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Pakistan, Guantanamo Detainees, David Addington, Yemeni Detainees Guantanamo, US District Court, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Military Commissions, Al Qaeda, Faisalabad, Guantanamo Uighurs, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, Cuba, World News

It is difficult to see how much of the "evidence" against the Gitmo prisoners can be anything other than a tissue of lies extracted through torture, coercion, bribery and exploitation.

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Obama's First 100 Days: A Start On Guantanamo, But Not Enough

Andy Worthington | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

Read More: Preventive Detention, Geneva Conventions, Pentagon Guantanamo, War on Terror, Algeria, President Obama, Guantanamo, Taliban, Binyam Mohamed, Omar Khadr, Eric Holder, Habeas Corpus, Obama Executive Orders, Dick Cheney, Politics, Libya, UN Convention Against Torture, Enemy Combatants, Robert Gates, Col. Patrick Parrish, Obama Guantanamo, Saudi Arabia, US Senate, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, Col. James Pohl, Judge Reggie B. Walton, Closing Guantanamo, Pentagon, US Supreme Court, Tunisia, Terrorism, Judge Ricardo Urbina, Neal Katyal, Guantanamo Detainees, Susan Crawford, David Addington, Ayman Batarfi, Justice Department, US District Court, Boumediene v. Bush, Barack Obama, Uighurs, Al Qaeda, Military Commissions, Guantanamo Uighurs, Lawrence Wilkerson, Judge Richard Leon, Uzbekistan, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, Obama First 100 Days, China, 100 Days, World News

Just Binyam Mohamed and the Yemeni doctor, Ayman Batarfi have been cleared for release. At this rate, of course, it will take decades to close Guantánamo.

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Gitmo Lawyers: The Last Growth Industry?

William Fisher | Posted 05.14.2009 | World

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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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Justice Extends To Bagram, Guantanamo's Dark Mirror

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.07.2009 | World

Read More: US Supreme Court, Amin Al-Bakri, Haji Wazir, War on Terror, Terrorism, President Obama, Guantanamo, Redha Al-Najar, Obama Administration, Justice Department, US District Court, International Justice Network, Boumediene v. Bush, Barack Obama, Judge John D. Bates, Habeas Corpus, Politics, Fadi Al-Maqaleh, Bagram, Enemy Combatants, Bagram Detainees, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, Afghanistan, Cuba, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, World News

Whereas Gitmo prisoners had, over the years, secured habeas corpus rights, none of these privileges had been extended to the prisoners in Bagram.

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What's in a Name? In this Case, Not Much

Elizabeth Goitein | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Enemy Combatants, Obama Guantanamo, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Enemy Forces, Gitmo Detainees, Politics News

The real story here is not that the words have changed; it's that much of the substance -- the disturbingly overbroad view of who may be detained under the laws of war -- remains the same.

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Justice Department Ends "Enemy Combatant" Definition For Gitmo Detainees

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 04.13.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Friday that it is abandoning one of President George W. Bush's key phrases in the war on terrorism: e...

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Al-Marri Case Dismissed By Supreme Court

People For the American Way Blog | Posted 04.06.2009 | World

Read More: Ali Al-Marri Supreme Court, Enemy Combatants, Ali Al-Marri, Al Qaeda, Enemy Combatants Supreme Court, Marri, Al-Marri, World News

Today, the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal by Ali al-Marri, who has been in federal custody in South Carolina since January 2002 when Bush designat...

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Ali al-Marri, Alleged Al-Qaida Agent, Indicted In Illinois Federal Court

AP | MARK SHERMAN and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 03.30.2009 | Chicago

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WASHINGTON — Suspected al-Qaida sleeper agent Ali Al-Marri is now facing criminal charges, but the Obama administration is refusing to rule out ...

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Government To Try Alleged Al-Qaida Agent In Illinois Court: AP

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 03.29.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Enemy Combatants, Ali Al-Marri, Enemy Combatant Trials, Terrorism, Ali Al-Marri Trial, Al Qaeda Suspect Trial, Al Qaeda, Chicago News

WASHINGTON — An accused al-Qaida sleeper agent held for 5-1/2 years at a Navy brig in South Carolina will soon be sent to Illinois for trial in ...

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Ali Saleh Kahlah al Marri: US Prepares Charges Against Final 'Enemy Combatant' In US

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Administration, Enemy Combatants, Al Marri Charges, Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri, War on Terror, Qatar, Politics News

WASHINGTON — An accused al-Qaida sleeper agent held for 5-1/2 years at a Navy brig in South Carolina will soon be sent to Illinois for trial in ...

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How Cooking For The Taliban Gets You Life In Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 03.01.2009 | World

Read More: Supreme Court, Al-Qaeda, Congress, Ghaleb Al-Bihani, Abu Zubaydah, President Obama, Guantanamo, Taliban, Habeas Corpus, Politics, Enemy Combatants, Bosnia, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Mohammed El-Gharani, Hisham Sliti, Closing Guantanamo, Belkacem Bensayah, Yemen, Tunisia, Judge Ricardo Urbina, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Salim Hamdan, US District Court, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Uighurs, Guantanamo Uighurs, Judge Richard Leon, Obama First 100 Days, Muaz Al-Alawi, Huzaifa Parhat, World News

Those of us who prefer justice to arbitrary and unaccountable detention without charge or trial were delighted when, last week, Barack Obama fulfilled...

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Judge Orders Release of Guantanamo's Forgotten Child

Andy Worthington | Posted 02.15.2009 | World

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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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

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

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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