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

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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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The Dying Days of the Guantanamo Trials

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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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An Empty Trial at Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Maj. Tom Fleener, Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, Al-Qaeda, Terrorism, Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Col. Ronald Gregory, David Addington, Military Commissions Act, Maj. David Frakt, Military Commissions, Osama Bin Laden, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Yesterday, the second trial by Military Commission at Guantánamo -- the second US "war crimes" trial since WWII -- opened not with a bang, and not even with a whimper, but with complete silence.

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Seized at 15, Omar Khadr turns 22 in Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Geneva Conventions, Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, Col. Patrick Parrish, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Nathan Whitling, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, Omar Khadr, Dennis Edney, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Col. Peter Brownback, Military Commissions, Home News
Andy Worthington

Today, Omar Khadr, the sole Canadian citizen in Guantánamo, marks his 22nd birthday in isolation. Seized in Afghanistan when he was just 15 years old...

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Controversy Still Plagues Guantanamo's Military Commissions

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Mohamed Jawad, Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, Terrorism, Col. Morris Davis, Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, Maj. David Frakt, Omar Khadr, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, Charles "Cully" Stimson, Abdul Ghani, Brig. Gen. Gregory Zanetti, Military Commissions, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Lost in the coverage of Hamdan's trial, which dominated media reports about Guantanamo was the fact that a twenty-third prisoner had been put forward for trial by Military Commission on July 28.

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