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Pat Quinn, Dick Durbin Try To Build Support For Gitmo Inmates' Relocation To Thomson Prison In Illinois

AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 11.15.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO — Gov. Pat Quinn and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin on Sunday tried to build support and counter criticism of a proposal to sell a prison in rura...

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Daniel Pearl's Family Disagrees WIth NYC Trial For Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Posted 11.15.2009 | World

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The mother and father of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl are disappointed with the federal government's decision to try Pearl's profes...

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Thomson Prison In Illinois Is Leading Choice In Obama's Search For Stateside Gitmo

AP | TAMMY WEBBER | Posted 11.15.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO — The Obama administration may buy a near-empty prison in rural northwestern Illinois to house detainees from Guantanamo Bay along with ...

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Executing Gitmo Detainees Will Endanger America, Report Says

Posted 11.10.2009 | World

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The Center For American Progress, a public policy think-tank based in D.C., has released a report that investigates the implications of the closure of...

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Source: 6 Gitmo Detainees Resettle In Palau

AP | JONATHAN KAMINSKY | Posted 11.01.2009 | World

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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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Sam Stein

Music Stars Demand Records On Bush Administration's Use Of Music For Torture

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

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A group of prominent musicians are joining a campaign to close Guantanamo Bay and demanding the release of records about what music was used during th...

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House Votes To Allow Guantanamo Detainees Into U.S.

AP | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans in the House have lost a bid to block the transfer of any detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay prison to the United Sta...

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Acknowledging America's Arrogance

Wajahat Ali | Posted 10.18.2009 | World

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Wajahat Ali

Obama's aggressive rhetoric and military action in Pakistan not only leaves collateral damage in the form of civilian casualties -- it also erodes trust and confidence in the US government and its intentions.

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Closing GITMO: Is This the Department of Justice's Detention Model?

William Fisher | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

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William Fisher

The government is already imprisoning, in the U.S., American citizens awaiting trial on terror-related charges, under what their supporters describe as draconian conditions.

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My 4 Days At Gitmo (SLIDESHOW)

Tomek Gross | Posted 08.31.2009 | World

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When asked about rates of depression, mental problems, and suicide among the detainee population, the chief psychiatrist reminds us that we all suffer from anxieties and stresses.

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Guantanamo Justice Center: Ex-Detainees Launch Gitmo Inmates' Rights Group

AP | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

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GENEVA — Former Guantanamo Bay detainees have launched an organization to help released inmates return to normal life and to lobby for the relea...

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Mohammed Jawad, Teenage Afghan Detainee, To Be Transferred To Civilian Court

Washington Independent | Posted 08.27.2009 | World

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It wasn't until late Friday afternoon that the Obama Justice Department, after years of wrangling over the fate of Mohammed Jawad, the Afghan boy arre...

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Obama Admin. Still Considering Bringing Some Gitmo Detainees To U.S.

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon's top lawyer said Friday that the Obama administration has not abandoned the possibility of transferring some prisoner...

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Gitmo Detainees: Torture Continued During Obama Presidency

ABC News | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

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Lakhdar Boumediene's own children didn't recognize him when he stepped off the military aircraft, looking gaunt and out of place. His 8-year-old daugh...

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Sami Al-Haj: Al Jazeera Journo Imprisoned At Gitmo To Sue George Bush

The Guardian | Posted 08.20.2009 | World

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An al-Jazeera journalist who was imprisoned in Guantánamo Bay plans to launch a joint legal action with other detainees against former US president G...

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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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Former Gitmo Detainee Launches Legal Fight To Stop US From Destroying Alleged Torture Photos

Guardian | Richard Norton-Taylor | Posted 08.05.2009 | World

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Former Guantánamo detainee Binyam Mohamed has launched an urgent legal attempt to prevent the US courts from destroying crucial evidence that he says...

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Some US Cities Hoping To Host Gitmo Detainees

AP | JIM SUHR | Posted 08.04.2009 | Politics

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MARION, Ill. — Once the nation's most secure prison, the federal lockup in southern Illinois has housed everyone from spies to a Colombian drugl...

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White House Denies Indefinite Detention Order

AFP | Posted 07.28.2009 | Politics

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The White House dismissed reports that it has drafted an executive order allowing indefinite detention in the United States of some of the top terror...

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Portugal Will Accept "2 Or 3" Guantanamo Detainees

MSNBC | Posted 07.21.2009 | World

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Portugal will accept "two or three" prisoners for resettlement from the U.S. detention camp of Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, state news agency Lusa quoted F...

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Palau Uighurs Face Culture Shock

AP | TOMOKO A. HOSAKA and WILLIAM FOREMAN | Posted 07.13.2009 | World

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KOROR, Palau — They came from a land of scorching deserts, snowcapped mountains, camels and mosques. Now after several miserable years imprisone...

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Obama Gives Up On Bringing Released Gitmo Inmates To U.S.

Washington Post | Peter Finn and Sandhya Somashekhar | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

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The Obama administration has all but abandoned plans to allow Guantanamo Bay detainees who have been cleared for release to live in the United States,...

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Bill Allows Obama To Try Gitmo Detainees In US Courts

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — After a flare-up over controversial detainee abuse photos, House-Senate negotiators sealed agreement on a crucial war-funding bill ...

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"Grassroots" Group Opposing Terrorism Trials In VA Has Ties To GOP Firm

The Washington Independant | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

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As a substantial portion of about 250 detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay's prison facility prepare to face trial in the United States, the alarm t...

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Congressional Dems Will Let Gitmo Detainees In US For Trial: Reuters

Reuters | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

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In a partial reprieve for President Barack Obama, congressional Democrats plan to allow detainees held in the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to ...

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