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4 hrs ago | The News

Bin Laden's driver was aware of terrorist attacks: witness

Friday, July 25, 2008 US NAVAL BASE GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba: Osama bin Laden's driver was part of a small circle of loyal staff and was aware his boss was involved in terrorist attacks, an FBI agent told a US ...

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Related Topix: US Military, US Navy, World News, Yemen, Middle East, Terrorism, US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp

11 hrs ago | 105.9 The X

FBI: Bin Laden's Driver Wasn't Read Rights

"Our policy at the time was not to read Miranda rights," FBI special agent Robert Fuller said.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Navy, Terrorism, US News, US Supreme Court, Guantanamo Bay, Camp Delta, World News,

16 hrs ago | Babalu Blog

BBC report from Cuba

As I mentioned earlier, the BBC broadcast a program from Cuba earlier today. You can listen to it by clicking here .

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Wed Jul 23, 2008

Naples Daily News

Editorial: From Russia with spite

The Russians remain peeved that the United States plans to put a missile defense system in Eastern Europe, and they seem especially annoyed that the interceptors and radars will be installed in two former ...

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Related Topix: Strategic Defense Initiative, George Bush, US Military, US Air Force, World News, Central America, Opinion

Daily Times

Yemen wants US to hand over Guantanamo detainees

SANAA: Yemen's Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Kurbi on Saturday called on the United States to hand over Yemenis held in the military detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

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Casa Grande Dispatch

Osama bin Laden's driver goes on trial

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - The judge in the first American war crimes trial since World War II barred evidence on Monday that interrogators obtained from Osama bin Laden's driver, ruling he was subjected ...

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Prensa Latina

The Cuban Blind Access Computers

Havana, Jul 22 Cuban blind people count on seven computing classrooms in specialized centers to learn how to work with computers and different digital techniques.

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Tue Jul 22, 2008

BlabberMouth.net

SEPULTURA In Cuba: CNN Report Available

Brazilian thrashers SEPULTURA performed in front of an estimated 60,000 people in Havana, Cuba on Saturday, July 19.

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Dose

Testimony begins in Guantanamo war crimes trial

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba - Salim Hamdan was Osama bin Laden's personal protector as well as his driver and joined an al Qaeda conspiracy to wage war on the United States, a prosecutor said Tuesday ...

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Related Topix: US Military, US Navy, Terrorism, Guantanamo Bay, World News, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp

Houston Chronicle

Cubans tend farms for themselves, not their state

Speckled chickens in Geraldo Pinera's garden will be on his family's dinner table soon, stewed with herbs and tomatoes and garnished with creamy slices of the avocados now ripening on a pair of spindly trees.

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Related Topix: Home Gardening, Home, Potatoes, Life, Food, Vegetables, World News, Central America, Raul Castro,

Mon Jul 21, 2008

Prensa Latina

UNIDO Bamboo Project in Cuba

Havana, Jul 21 A joint project between the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and Cuba's Forest Research Institute guarantees the industrialization of bamboo in the island nation.

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CNN

Mukasey asks for rules on detainee hearings

Attorney General Michael Mukasey Monday asked Congress to define the rules governing civilian court hearings for about 200 detainees held in the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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

MLive.com

Continue reading "Canadian airline to offer Cuba flights from Windsor"

A Canadian airline plans to offer flights to Cuba departing from airports a short drive from Michigan.

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KVEW

Guantanamo-First Trial

The trial of Salim Hamdan , a Yemeni who was once Osama bin Laden's driver, marks a major test for the Pentagon's tribunal system after years of legal setbacks and delays.

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

Sun Jul 20, 2008

The Miami Herald

Miami musical captures the Cuban immigrant life

The brightly lit rehearsal studio at Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts is a long way from a Havana carnival, but the twisting Cuban dancers shaking the room with sweat-inducing batidora and ...

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Related Topix: World News, Miami Metro, Arts, Dance

The Daily Star

US military jails in Afghanistan 'legal black holes'

KABUL: US human rights lawyers charged Sunday that US military prisons are "legal black holes" and the force is detaining journalists to "shut people up" about activities in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Salon.com

One more good reason to lift the embargo on Cuba

Sugar cane is harvested in Quivicn, south of Havana, Cuba, April 4, 2008. July 18, 2008 Listening to the mouthpieces of the oil industry on talk radio and cable television -- as well as in the Bush White House ...

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Related Topix: World News, Central America, Fidel Castro, Opinion

The Miami Herald

Cuba paid debts with forced labor, lawsuit says

Each Cuban worker got two pairs of overalls, a set of sturdy boots, a helmet and food commensurate with how hard he worked.

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Related Topix: Fidel Castro, World News, Central America, Miami Metro

Sat Jul 19, 2008

The Miami Herald

Wave of arrests target Cuban activists

Cuban activist Jorge Luis Garca Prez has lost count of how many times he has been arrested since last year, when he finished serving every day of a 17-year prison sentence and then some.

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Related Topix: World News, Activism

Daily Mail

Cuban lover of Briton at centre of Shakespeare Folio probe tells of her shock at his arrest

The Cuban beauty embroiled in the mystery of the 15million Shakespeare manuscript has spoken of her shock at the arrest of her British boyfriend.

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Related Topix: World News, Central America

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