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7 hrs ago | Jurist

Military commissions system 'broken': former Guantanamo prosecutor

Col. Darrel Vandeveld, US Army Reserve Judge Advocate General Corps [official website], said that although he was a "true believer" when he was detailed to the detention facility, he had come to believe that the commissions undermined "the fundamental values ... upon which this great country was founded." Asked by the subcommittee to address the ...

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, US Military, US Navy

15 hrs ago | LancasterOnline

Justice In America Is Dead. Welcom...

Justice In America Is Dead. Welcome To The Facist Police State. , When this happens to us we will only have ourselves to blame.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, US News, Camp Delta, US Politics, US Senate, Carl Levin, Democrat

23 hrs ago | Raw Story

Accused of returning to terrorism, former Gitmo inmate a respected Afghan politician...

A former Guantanamo Bay detainee who was named by the Pentagon as one of 74 former captives who returned to terrorism after being released has done no such thing.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, US News, Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai

Wed Jul 08, 2009

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Prosecutor from Pa.: Military commission system is 'broken'

A former military prosecutor today told a congressional committee that the system of military commissions used to try detainees held at Guantanamo Bay is "broken beyond repair" and should be abandoned altogether.

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Fox News

Ex-Gitmo Detainee in Afghan Fight

As U.S. forces are pushing ahead with the massive Operation Khanjar in the southern Afghanistan province of Helmand, Mullah Zakir is leading the Taliban fight against them.

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McClatchy DC

Where's Pentagon 'terrorism suspect'? Talking to Karzai

Haji Sahib Rohullah Wakil spends his days going from one high-level official meeting to another with the swagger of a tribal elder, advocating for the needs of Kunar province, his home region.

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Related Topix: Terrorism, Hamid Karzai, World News, Asia, Afghanistan, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

Tue Jul 07, 2009

WNOL-TV New Orleans

Former Gitmo prisoner claims abuse during detention and says the United States has photos

A former Guantanamo Bay prisoner says the United States has photographs of him being beaten during his detention and has asked a judge to preserve the evidence.

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Related Topix: Prison, US Military Prisons, US News, Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, US Military, US Navy

Star-telegram.com

Officials: Fate of Guantanamo detainees uncertain

By LARA JAKES Obama administration lawyers acknowledged Tuesday they are uncertain how they will prosecute and deal with more than 200 detainees being held in the Guantanamo Bay prison.With just over six months to go on President Barack Obama's commitment to shut down the U.S. Navy's prison camp in Cuba, administration officials told the Senate ...

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, Cuba, World News, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, US Military, US Navy

Mon Jul 06, 2009

The Ashland Daily Tidings

Stench from Guantanamo won't wash off

Apparently, Congress has detected some footnotes to Emma Lazarus' famous poem engraved inside the Statue of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore." But don't bother sending anyone released from detention at Guantanamo Bay.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, Cuba, World News, US News, Camp Delta, Opinion

Fox News

Chinese Muslims Target of Deadly Riots, 140 Dead

July 5: Protesters throw rocks at police on a street in Urumqi, capital of China's Xinjiang province.

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KHWB-TV Houston

House passes Homeland Security spending bill with money for border patrol agents, anti-piracy

The House passed a $44 billion spending bill Wednesday that awards the Homeland Security Department a 7 percent budget increase, with money for more border patrol agents and for anti-piracy efforts off the coast of Somalia.

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Related Topix: Piracy News, Immigration Reform, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Terrorism

Sun Jul 05, 2009

Free Republic

Bernard Madoff hires help to survive hard time

Bernard Madoff has hired a veteran prison consultant to help him to find the best possible jail in which to serve his 150-year sentence for Wall Street's biggest fraud.

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Related Topix: Prison, Bernie Madoff, Florence, CO, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp

Sat Jul 04, 2009

Concord Monitor

Still no justice at Guantanamo

Like his fellow prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Kuwaiti detainee Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed al-Kandari hoped that President Obama's election would finally bring justice.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, Opinion

Fri Jul 03, 2009

MSNBC

Documents reveal chaos of Gitmoa s early days

Commander cited lack of security, branded military linguists 'worthless' Video A A New torture details revealed June 15: The ACLU has obtained previously redacted CIA documents containing prisoner descriptions of the abuses they suffered at the prison at Guantanamo Bay.

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Related Topix: Prison, ACLU, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, US News, Camp Delta

The Peninsula

Gitmo trial lawyers want to visit CIA jail

NEW YORK: Lawyers for the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be transferred to US soil for a civilian trial, set for September 2010, asked yesterday to see the secret CIA prisons where he was allegedly tortured.

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Related Topix: Prison, US Military Prisons, US News, Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, World News

Thu Jul 02, 2009

The Modesto Bee

Documents describe chaos of Gitmo's early months

Newly released Defense Department documents and memos about the first years of operation of the jail at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, portray a chaotic and sometimes violent operation that its own commanders described as dysfunctional.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, US News, Camp Delta, US Politics, Barack Obama, ACLU

Reuters

Guantanamo suspect to be tried in U.S. court in 2010

The first detainee transferred from Guantanamo Bay to a U.S. civilian court will go on trial on September 13, 2010, a Manhattan federal court judge said on Thursday.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, Cuba, World News, New York, US News

Salon.com

Gitmo detainee seeks to suppress interrogations

Attorneys for a Guantanamo Bay prisoner asked a federal judge Wednesday to exclude as evidence against him the statements he made during at least 57 interrogations since his capture, saying they were the result of torture and other coercion.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, US News, Camp Delta, Cuba, World News,

Wed Jul 01, 2009

CNN

14 terror suspects

In September of 2006, President Bush announced that 14 suspected prisoners who were being held in CIA custody had been transferred to the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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Related Topix: George Bush, Prison, Terrorism, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp

Tue Jun 30, 2009

Boston.com

Guantanamo suspect's lawyers seek CIA site access

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian held at the U.S. naval base in Cuba since 2006 accused of involvement in the bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa, is depicted in this courtroom sketch of his arraignment, in New York in this June 9, 2009 file photo.

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