Guantanamo Bay News

On January 12, the tenth anniversary of the notorious military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Truthout interviewed investigative journalist and Guantanamo expert Andy Worthington.

Facing domestic political pressures, the Bush and Obama administrations released or transferred 600 terror suspects deemed an acceptable threat from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, only to find that 27 percent re-engaged in terrorist or insurgent activities, according to a report by Republicans on the investigations panel of the House ... (more)

A Pakistani-American Chicago cab driver, Raja Lahrasib Khan, pleaded guilty on February 6 to one count of attempting to provide material support to terrorism for attempting to send money to Pakistan-based terrorist Ilyas Kashmiri, who Khan believed was taking orders from Osama bin Laden .

Ammar al Baluchi, nephew of alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed, poses for Red Cross photo inside the secret Camp 7 prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2009.

Over the last 30 years, Texas built over 90 prisons, quintupling the number of detention centers in the state and earning the title of highest state incarceration rate in the process.

House Democrats blasted their Republican colleagues on the armed services committee Wednesday, following the release of a report criticizing the Obama and Bush administrations over their transfer of detainees out of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.

There is no question that Americans are frustrated with their elected officials, but the latest Gallup poll shows that frustration has reached a fever pitch, plummeting Congress to its lowest approval rating in history.

Facing domestic political pressures, the Bush and Obama administrations released or transferred 600 terror suspects deemed an acceptable threat from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, only to face the challenge that 27 percent re-engaged in terrorist or insurgent activities, according to a report by Republicans on a House Armed Services ... (more)

US President Barack Obama has overwhelming support from American voters for his use of drone strikes against terror suspects and his planned troop drawdown in Afghanistan, a poll found Wednesday.

The submission follows Spanish Investigating Judge Pablo Ruz Gutierrez's recent order to proceed with the probe into the U.S. torture program.

From the moment that photos documenting prisoner abuse in Iraq came to light seven weeks ago, the Bush Administration has stuck to the claim that the crimes were the vile acts of a few bad soldiers.

The United States is seeking to accelerate fragile talks with the Taliban so it can announce serious peace negotiations at a NATO summit in May, officials say, in what would be a welcome bright spot in Western efforts to end the war in Afghanistan.

The American Civil Liberties Union is taking the FBI, Department of Justice and CIA to court over information relating to a US-conducted killing of three of its own citizens abroad last year, including one 16-year-old boy.

The U.S. Defense Department specializes in euphemism. "Limited kinetic action" is a polite way of saying "war" and "collateral damage" does not sound as blunt as "dead children."A When I was chief prosecutor for the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay during the Bush administration, I was told not to say publicly that a detainee had "attempted ... (more)

US President Barack Obama has signed an executive order to freeze all Iranian government assets held in America and US banks abroad.

An Italian appeals court has overturned the terrorism conviction of a Tunisian man who had spent nearly eight years in the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo, Cuba.

In this Jan. 11, 2002 file photo, released by the U.S. Department of Defense, detainees wearing orange jump suits sit in a holding area as military police patrol during in-processing at the temporary detention facility Camp X-Ray on Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba.

Islamabad, Feb 5 : The Afghan Taliban has denied that the group' leader Mullah Omar wrote any letter to US President Barack Obama, indicating an interest to initiate peace talks.

Pierce County District Court Judge Jack Nevin cheerfully interrupts a long-winded defendant June 11, 2009, to dismiss her driving infraction.

The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a stain on the United States, an affront to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and should be close, said R. Lee Wrights, a candidate for the Libertarian presidential nomination in a statement released today.