mcconnell Rakes Gates Over Gitmo Inmates - Human Events
mcconnell Rakes Gates Over Gitmo Inmates
Human Events, DC - Connie Hair
HUMAN EVENTS has been reporting for nearly two weeks on the planned release of seventeen Chinese Uighurs -- members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement captured at an al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan. These terrorist prisoners were found by a ...
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US-POLITICS Summary - Washington Post
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US-POLITICS Summary
Washington Post, United States
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration began internal discussions this week over where to put Guantanamo Bay detainees if they are not tried or sent to other nations, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday. ...
Video: Source: Justice David Souter Retiring The Associated Press
Souter to retire from Supreme Court Los Angeles Times
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Dumbed down news drives down newspaper circulation - Online Journal
Dumbed down news drives down newspaper circulation
Online Journal, FL - Jerry Mazza, Jerry Mazza
The Center has taken action accordingly -- from its numerous legal cases challenging attacks on dissent, unlawful detention, extraordinary rendition, torture and other abuses, to its advocacy and education work addressing those same issues -- in order ...
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Guantanamo naval base no longer serves a purpose - Atlanta Journal Constitution
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Guantanamo naval base no longer serves a purpose
Atlanta Journal Constitution, USA - Steve Elliott-Gower
That elephant is the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base —- a 45 square mile piece of military real estate on the southern tip of the sovereign Republic of Cuba. The base was first established at the end of the Spanish-American War by 1898 as a coaling station ...
Let Go of Guantanamo Bay The Washington Independent
Is it time for the US to give Gitmo back to Cuba? Foreign Policy
Fidel Castro snubs US terrorism list PRESS TV
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Spanish judge launches new torture probe of Bush officials - World Socialist Web Site
Spanish judge launches new torture probe of Bush officials
World Socialist Web Site, MI - Paul Mitchell, Chris Marsden
He wrote that previously classified Bush Justice Department memos released last month by the Obama administration indicated the existence of a torture program at the US prison at Bagram air base in Afghanistan as well as at Guantánamo that had been ...
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Gates defends plan to accept Chinese detainees in US - Los Angeles Times
Gates defends plan to accept Chinese detainees in US
Los Angeles Times, CA - Julian E. Barnes
He says the Uighurs held at Guantanamo Bay would face persecution if they were returned to China. By Julian E. Barnes Reporting from Washington -- Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Thursday that he expected staunch opposition in Congress to the ...
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Gates defends plan to accept Chinese detainees in US - Los Angeles Times
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Gates defends plan to accept Chinese detainees in US
Los Angeles Times, CA - Julian E. Barnes
He says the Uighurs held at Guantanamo Bay would face persecution if they were returned to China. By Julian E. Barnes Reporting from Washington -- Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Thursday that he expected staunch opposition in Congress to the ...
US may keep 50-100 Guantanamo inmates detained AFP
World Briefing | Europe Holder Asks Leaders to Take Guantánamo ... New York Times
Gates Grilled on Moving Detainees Wall Street Journal
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Hints That Detainees May Be Held on US Soil - New York Times
Hints That Detainees May Be Held on US Soil
New York Times, United States - Elisabeth Bumiller, William Glaberson
By ELISABETH BUMILLER and WILLIAM GLABERSON WASHINGTON — As many as 100 detainees at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, could end up held without trial on American soil, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates suggested Thursday, a situation that he ...
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Guantanamo naval base no longer serves a purpose - Atlanta Journal Constitution
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Guantanamo naval base no longer serves a purpose
Atlanta Journal Constitution, USA
That elephant is the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base —a 45 square mile piece of military real estate on the southern tip of the sovereign Republic of Cuba. The base was first established at the end of the Spanish-American War by 1898 as a coaling station for ...
Let Go of Guantanamo Bay The Washington Independent
Is it time for the US to give Gitmo back to Cuba? Foreign Policy
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Democrats struggle with Guantanamo politics - Politico
Democrats struggle with Guantanamo politics
Politico, DC - David Rogers
They are Chinese Muslims known as Uighurs, and their supporters say they never should have been at Guantanamo. Seventeen Uighurs are held at Guantanamo. In recent weeks, officials reinterviewed them in preparation for their eventual transfer. ...
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Scores of Guantanamo Bay detainees may be moved to US soil - Telegraph.co.uk
Scores of Guantanamo Bay detainees may be moved to US soil
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - Leonard Doyle
Some of the 17 Chinese ethnic Uighurs being held at Guantanamo may be allowed to settle in the United States, to help encourage allies to accept some of the detainees, Mr Gates said. The administration has said it "cannot imagine" sending the Uighurs ...
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Suspected al Qaeda Agent Is Guilty of Aiding Terrorists - Wall Street Journal
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Suspected al Qaeda Agent Is Guilty of Aiding Terrorists
Wall Street Journal - Evan Perez
That argument is aimed at bolstering the administration's plans to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, despite opposition from critics who say the move could endanger the nation. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Senate lawmakers Thursday that ...
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Airmen mobilize to confront Afghan insurgency - Arctic Sentry
Airmen mobilize to confront Afghan insurgency
Arctic Sentry, AK - Shawn J. Jones, Shawn J. Jones
by Staff Sgt. Shawn J. Jones 4/30/2009 - SEYMOUR JOHNSON AIR FORCE BASE, NC (AFNS) -- More than a dozen F-15E Strike Eagles, two DC-10s and a C-17 Globemaster III met the rising sun over the Atlantic Ocean en route to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, ...
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US lawyer hopeful on Sudan Gitmo detainees - Reuters
US lawyer hopeful on Sudan Gitmo detainees
Reuters - Yara Bayoumy, Richard Balmforth
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Two Sudanese detainees facing military trials in Guantanamo Bay are "good candidates for repatriation," a US military lawyer who represents one of them said in Khartoum Thursday. A team of US lawyers representing the detainees has ...
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Rice Defends Enhanced Interrogations - Washington Post
Rice Defends Enhanced Interrogations
Washington Post, United States - Glenn Kessler
If it were about torture, they (Eugene Robinson, et al) would be talking about Extraordinary Rendition invented by the Clinton-Gore administration. Please, oh please get off your high-horse about Americans not torturing during WW2. ...
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Senators press for Gitmo closing details - The Associated Press
Senators press for Gitmo closing details
The Associated Press
Gates also acknowledged that some of the Chinese Muslims — known as Uighurs (WEE'-gurz )_ are likely to be released in the United States. "It's difficult for the State Department to make the argument to other countries that they should take these ...
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Garzón to Open Investigation into Creation of Guantánamo Prison Camp - CafeSentido.com
Garzón to Open Investigation into Creation of Guantánamo Prison Camp
CafeSentido.com, NJ - J.E. Robertson
Garzón's actions, in line with US Constitutional law, are intended, most likely, as a nudge to US officials to open a substantive criminal probe into extraordinary rendition, undisclosed detention and enhanced interrogation.
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50-100 Guantanamo inmates can't be tried, freed: Gates - AFP
50-100 Guantanamo inmates can't be tried, freed: Gates
AFP
US officials were also considering allowing some of the 17 Chinese ethnic Uighurs held at Guantanamo to settle in the United States, to help encourage allies to accept some of the detainees, Gates confirmed. "What I have heard people talking about is ...
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Torture, State Secrets and Spanish Prosecution - Institute for Public Accuracy (press release)
Torture, State Secrets and Spanish Prosecution
Institute for Public Accuracy (press release), DC
The denial of the rule of law and the abuse of detainees continues at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan." In his news conference last night, Obama claimed regarding state secret cases: "we don't have the time to effectively think through" the issue. ...
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US to limit Guantanamo releases - BBC News
US to limit Guantanamo releases
BBC News, UK
Mr Gates confirmed that although many of the detainees who are to be released without charge would be sent to other countries, some of the 17 Chinese ethnic Uighurs are likely to be allowed to settle in the US. "What I have heard people talking about ...
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