Guantanamo Bay News

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 ...

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.