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1 hr ago | Virgin Islands Daily News

V.I. National Guard unit leaves for Guantanamo duty

There were tears on the faces of many people at Cyril King Airport on Monday morning as friends and families sent off 72 soldiers of the Virgin Islands National Guard 786th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Prison, Cuba, World News, Virgin Islands, Central America

9 hrs ago | The Georgia Straight

Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School Of Medicine bring the wit on The Audacity of Hype

The Audacity of Hype Revitalized by his collaborations with the Melvins, Jello Biafra, now in his 50s, has gone the next logical step and formed his own band.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Prison, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama

17 hrs ago | Mail & Guardian

'US foreign policy is straight out of the Mafia'

Noam Chomsky is the closest thing in the English-speaking world to an intellectual superstar.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Prison, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

Fri Nov 06, 2009

AndhraNews

Former Gitmo detainee vows to drag Musharraf to court for illegal imprisonment

A former prisoner, who was kept behind bars at the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay for six years, has vowed to lodge a criminal case against former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf for arresting him illegally.

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

The Post Chronicle

Are You With Us Or With Them?

President Obama likes to preen himself on his supposed moral superiority to his predecessor.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Prison, George Bush, Iran, World News, Middle East,

Suntimes News

Emerson: Gitmo detainees shouldn't be flu priority

Perry County's representative in Congress, Jo Ann Emerson said that plans to make the H1N1 flu shot available to detainees at the Guantanamo Bay naval base will put suspected terrorists ahead of American citizens.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Prison, Jo Ann Emerson, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Camp Delta, H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Cuba, World News, Guantanamo Bay

South China Morning Post

Uygur leader to visit former Guantanamo detainees

Exiled Chinese Muslim leader Rebiya Kadeer will travel to Palau as soon as next week to visit six fellow Uygurs released from Guantanamo Bay, a spokesman for the men said on Friday.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Prison, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama

Freep.com - RSS

COMMENTARY: America can, and should, close down Guantanamo

Within days of taking office, President Barack Obama announced that he would close the prison at Guantanamo Bay by the end of this year.

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

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Senate rejects bid aimed at Sept. 11 terrorists

The Democratic-controlled Senate on Thursday turned back a GOP-led effort to bar Sept.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Terrorism, US Senate, Republican, Lindsey Graham, US Military Prisons, Prison

Cw56.com

Amherst offers home to Guantanamo detainees

A Massachusetts town has voted in favor of inviting two men detained at Guantanamo Bay military prison to resettle in the community, if they are ultimately cleared of terrorism ties and released.

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WTOL-TV Toledo

University of Michigan panel probing US security after Gitmo

A panel at the University of Michigan Law School is probing the future of U.S. security as the clock ticks down for the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, US News, Camp Delta, Prison, Guantanamo Bay, US Military, US Navy, US Army, Concord, NH

RecordNET

Not a bad record for Obama's first year in office

It's been a year since a healthy majority of American voters elected Barack Obama to change the world.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, US Military Prisons, Prison, George Bush, Opinion

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Fort Mill Times

Guantanamo detainees become SC political fodder

Reports that South Carolina may get detainees when Guantanomo Bay is shut down has roiled the political debate in South Carolina's governor's race.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Gresham Barrett, US Military Prisons, Prison, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Charleston Metro, North Charleston, SC

WNEM-TV Saginaw

Standish Max Prison Closes, Prospects Uncertain

Standish Maximum Correctional Facility has closed and it's still uncertain whether it will reopen to house detainees from Guantanamo Bay.

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NBC New York

Obama's Broken Promise Of a New Tone

One year after the exuberant optimism that accompanied Barack Obama 's historic election, little has changed except the nation's mood.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, US Military Prisons, Prison, Rush Limbaugh

Clover Herald

Justice Department won't appeal order to free Guantanamo detainee

A Kuwaiti Airways engineer whom the U.S. military has accused of being a key aide to Osama bin Laden has been moved to the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention center's minimum-security wing that's reserved for prisoners slated to be released.

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Portland's CW32 KRCW -TV

US, lawyers concerned as Guantanamo's longest hunger striker loses weight

A Guantanamo prisoner who has been on hunger strike for more than four years is in critical danger from malnutrition, his lawyers said Tuesday.

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Tue Nov 03, 2009

KTLA-TV Los Angeles

Germany's Merkel an advocate of strong ties with US, but doesn't avoid awkward issues

Angela Merkel, the first leader of reunited Germany to grow up under communist rule, has worked as chancellor to warm up ties with the United States - a country she couldn't travel to until she was in her mid-30s. The former East German physicist, also the first woman to lead her country, restored cordiality to ties strained over the Iraq war while ...

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Germany, Angela Merkel, US Politics, US News, George Bush, US Military Prisons, Prison, Barack Obama

CNN

White House: No H1N1 vaccine for Gitmo

Amid shortages in the U.S., the announced plan to vaccinate Guantanamo Bay detainees against swine flu angered many.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Prison, H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, US News, Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, World News, Department of Defense

The Modesto Bee

White House: No flu vaccine for Gitmo detainees

The White House says detainees at Guantanamo Bay are not receiving vaccinations against the swine flu.

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