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Guantanamo Accountability

Mike Smith | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

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Mike Smith

Common Cause recently sponsored a compelling session at the National Press Club on prisoner abuse, military commissions trying detainees, and who is responsible for torturous interrogations at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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Guantanamo Prisoners To Be Tried in U.S., Congressional Agreement Allows

nytimes.com | DAVID JOHNSTON | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- Congressional leaders have decided to allow detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to be brought to the United States to face civ...

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3 Guantanamo Bay Prisoners Transferred To Ireland, Yemen

AP | Posted 09.27.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — With the closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison by a January deadline in doubt, the Justice Department Saturday announced the transfe...

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Guantanamo Inmates Make Video Calls, Says Red Cross

AP | Posted 09.18.2009 | World

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GENEVA — The international Red Cross says it has set up video links allowing Guantanamo Bay inmates to talk to their families and friends face-t...

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

AP | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

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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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Report Reveals Cheney Misled About "Trained Interrogators"

Rawstory.com | Daniel Tencer | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

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Since Monday, when the CIA released a significant part of those documents -- a 2004 CIA inspector general's report on torture practices -- there has b...

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Mohammed Jawad, Young Afghan Freed From Guantanamo, To Sue U.S. For Mistreatment And Lost Adolescence

AP | HEIDI VOGT | Posted 09.27.2009 | World

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KABUL — The family of one of the youngest prisoners ever held at Guantanamo plans to sue the U.S. government to compensate him for mistreatment ...

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Mohammed Jawad, Guantanamo Detainee Held As Teen, Back In Afghanistan

AP | Posted 09.24.2009 | World

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - A Guantanamo prisoner once charged with wounding two U.S. soldiers and their interpreter was back home in Afghanistan Mon...

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Binyam Mohamed Torture Claims To Be Investigated By UK

The Independent | Posted 08.10.2009 | World

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The Metropolitan Police are to investigate claims that British agents colluded in torture, Scotland Yard said today. ...

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My Trip to Guantanamo: It Must Be Closed

Rep. Jan Schakowsky | Posted 07.26.2009 | World

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Rep. Jan Schakowsky

Decisions about placement of prisoners are made based on their level of compliance. It has nothing to do with alleged terrorist activities or crimes, since no one -- you got it -- no one has been convicted of anything.

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Bermuda's Detainee Stance Angers UK

AP | Posted 07.17.2009 | World

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LONDON — Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband says he has complained to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after the United States st...

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Palau Can't Take The Uighurs: Says China

AP | RAY LILLEY | Posted 07.12.2009 | World

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Palau's president said Thursday that his tiny Pacific nation's tradition of hospitality prompted the decision to take ...

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Yemeni Gitmo Detainee Allegedly Dies Of Suicide

AP | DAVID McFADDEN and DANICA COTO | Posted 07.03.2009 | World

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo Bay has died of an apparent suicide, U.S. military officials said Tuesday. His is the fi...

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Uighurs Stage Rare Protest At Guantanamo Using Pentagon-Issued Crayons

miamiherald.com | By CAROL ROSENBERG | Posted 07.03.2009 | World

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A federal judge has ordered the release of 17 Uighurs, Chinese Muslims, from the Guantánamo detention camp. But they're still there, and on Monday th...

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Boumediene Describes Guantanamo Experience: Interrogated For 16 Straight Nights

nytimes.com | STEVEN ERLANGER | Posted 06.27.2009 | World

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PARIS -- A former Guantánamo detainee, an Algerian given a new home in France, is contending that he was interrogated at the Cuban detention center f...

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Afghan Taken To Guantanamo At Age 12: Rights Group

Reuters | Sayed Salahuddin | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

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KABUL (Reuters) -- An Afghan who has spent over six years at the U.S. military's Guantanamo Bay prison was only around 12 years old when he was detain...

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TERRORIST REHABILITATION PROGRAM: US Hopeful On Yemeni Detainee Deal

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 06.06.2009 | World

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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — The Obama administration says it is inching closer to a deal that would send an estimated 100 Yemeni detainees at Guantan...

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30 Gitmo Inmates Approved For Release By Eric Holder

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

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BERLIN — The United States and its allies must make sacrifices to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder s...

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U.S. Plans To Accept Uighurs In First Release Of Detainees Into America

Los Angeles Times | Julian E. Barnes | Posted 05.25.2009 | World

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Reporting from Washington -- The Obama administration is preparing to admit into the United States as many as seven Chinese Muslims who have been impr...

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Ex-State Dept. Lawyer: Bush Panicked After 9/11, Used Torture

AP | ANDREW O. SELSKY | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A former State Department lawyer responsible for Guantanamo-related cases said Friday that the Bush administration overr...

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US Asked Binyam Mohamed To Drop Torture Claim In Exchange For Freedom: British Court

AP | DAVID STRINGER | Posted 04.23.2009 | World

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LONDON — U.S. authorities asked a Guantanamo Bay detainee to drop allegations of torture and agree not to speak publicly about his ordeal in exc...

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Binyam Mohamed Freed After 4 Years In Guantanamo

AP | PAISLEY DODDS | Posted 03.26.2009 | World

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LONDON — The first Guantanamo detainee released since President Barack Obama took office returned to Britain on Monday, saying his seven years o...

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Binyam Mohamed To Be Returned To Britain

AP | RAPHAEL G. SATTER | Posted 03.23.2009 | World

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LONDON — A former U.K. resident who alleges he was tortured while in U.S. custody will soon be released from Guantanamo Bay and sent back to Bri...

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Uighurs Denied Release In US: Court Reverses Ruling

AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 03.21.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that 17 Turkic Muslims cleared for release from Guantanamo Bay must stay at the prison c...

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