Guantanamo

The Public Record
How Did An Al-Qaeda Magazine Get Into Guantanamo? That's A Secret, Pentagon Says
The Public Record
By Jason Leopold An edition of Inspire magazine, produced and published by an arm of al-Qaeda, was discovered at Guantanamo, prompting a strict, new legal mail review policy for detainees and their attorneys. Pentagon officials told Truthout that ...

London Guantánamo Campaign Candlelit Vigil
Demotix
The London Guantánamo Campaign marked 5 years of regular protest at the US Embassy and over 10 years of illegal detention with a candlelit vigil, calling for the return of UK residents Shaker Aamer and Ahmed Belbacha. London, UK. 03/02/2012 Campaigners ...

Al-Arabiya
Afghan Taliban deny their leader Mullah Omar sent letter to White House
Washington Post
One official said Omar complained that the United States had not done enough to establish good faith for negotiations, such as arranging the release of Taliban prisoners held in the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Afghan Taliban deny Mullah Omar wrote to White HouseReuters

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USA TODAY
Pentagon refuses extension for Guantanamo Sept. 11 trial
USA TODAY
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) – A Pentagon legal official refused Friday to extend an important deadline for defense lawyers for the five Guantanamo Bay prisoners charged in the Sept. 11 attack, a decision that means their highly anticipated arraignment ...
Extension Denied in Guantanamo Sept. 11 TrialABC News

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Exoneree: Guantanamo Bay Is "Peanuts Compared to What's Going On In" Texas
Dallas Observer (blog)
"All that stuff that's going on in Guantanamo Bay, that's peanuts compared to what's going on in your backyard," Graves said. "I was a good father, but the state of Texas took that from me in your name." In 2010, after 18 years in prison, ...

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Telegraph.co.uk
Amid peace bid, US got purported letter from Taliban
Reuters
The message reportedly expressed impatience that the White House had not yet transferred five former senior Taliban officials out of Guantanamo Bay military prison. US officials have been considering moving the detainees to Afghan custody in the Gulf ...
Taliban leader Mullah Omar 'sent letter to Barack Obama'Telegraph.co.uk
These Are the Taliban Prisoners Up for ReleaseThe Atlantic Wire
AP sources: White House got letter on talks purportedly from Taliban leader ...Washington Post
New York Times
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truthout
Details Remain Secret on Arrival of "Contraband" Magazine at Guantanamo
truthout
An edition of Inspire magazine, produced and published by an arm of al-Qaeda, was discovered at Guantanamo, prompting a strict, new legal mail review policy for detainees and their attorneys. Pentagon officials told Truthout that details of their probe ...

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Los Angeles Times
GOP decries possible Taliban release from Guantanamo
UPI.com
Demonstrators from Amnesty International and Witness Against Torture hold a procession against the use of torture and continued detentions in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, outside the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on June 23, 2011. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg ...
Plans to turn over Taliban Gitmo detainees in works, Rep. Rogers saysFox News
GOP criticizes plan to transfer 'high-level' Guantanamo detaineesLos Angeles Times
The Taliban who might leave GuantanamoCNN (blog)
AFP -Outcome Magazine
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Guantanamo, Iran and Hope
Schenectady Gazette (blog)
By Linda LeTendre I attended the 10th annual Witness Against Torture (WAT) gathering in Washington, DC in January, this four years after President Obama signed an order to close Guantanamo within his first year in office. So by my calculations were ...

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Justice Department Lawyers Play Role In Guantanamo
NPR
by Dina Temple-Raston Anyone watching the recent court proceedings in the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay couldn't have helped but notice that several of the lawyers sitting on the prosecution side of the courtroom were not in uniform.

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Los Angeles Times
GOP criticizes plan to transfer 'high-level' Guantanamo detainees
Los Angeles Times
Lawmakers denounce an Obama administration proposal to send abroad five Guantanamo Bay detainees on a no-transfer list to mollify the Taliban before Afghanistan peace talks. A Guantanamo Bay detainee is escorted in 2006. Under a proposal an Obama ...
Plans to turn over Taliban Gitmo detainees in works, Rep. Rogers saysFox News
The Taliban who might leave GuantanamoCNN (blog)
These Are the Taliban Prisoners Up for ReleaseThe Atlantic Wire
AFP -Bloomberg
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MiamiHerald.com
Defenders seek 9/11 trial delay, blame Guantánamo legal mail dispute
MiamiHerald.com
This time, Pentagon defense lawyers are citing a new Guantánamo prison camp controversy involving inspection of confidential mail in their request for a delay in the Sept. 11 mass murder case. By the numbers By CAROL ROSENBERG Lawyers for the 9/11 plot ...

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Lawyers in Guantanamo Sept. 11 case seek deadline extension that would likely ...
Washington Post
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Lawyers for at least two Guantanamo Bay prisoners accused of planning the Sept. 11 attack asked the Pentagon on Thursday to extend a deadline for pretrial motions, which could again delay a case that has been stalled by ...
Mandamus Opposition in Al HawsawiLawfare (blog)

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Guantanamo Jay sees his shadow
DVIDS
Lt. Cmdr. Jay Haddock, plays the President of the Inner Club, poses with “Guantanamo Jay”, the long lost banana rat cousin to Punxsutawney Phil, during a ceremony early in the morning. Guantanamo Jay did see his shadow projects a against the morning ...

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Los Angeles Times
Plans to turn over Taliban Gitmo detainees in works, Rep. Rogers says
Fox News
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration has taken "operational" steps to move five Taliban leaders from Guantanamo Bay as part of a confidence-building measure to further peace talks with the Afghan Taliban, the chairman of the House Intelligence ...
GOP criticizes plan to transfer 'high-level' Guantanamo detaineesLos Angeles Times
GOP decries possible Taliban release from GuantanamoUPI.com
The Taliban who might leave GuantanamoCNN (blog)
AFP -USA TODAY
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Havana Times
Feminicide in Guantanamo, Cuba
Havana Times
... to school – the same cousin who didn't look like the person of her childhood dreams, but who I had dearly loved. * This is a true story that occurred a few days ago in the city of Guantanamo. The cousin of the murder victim is a close friend of mine.

Closing time for Guantanamo Bay
North Wind Online
Since Barack Obama's inauguration in 2009, Guantanamo Bay has been playing Semisonic's hit song “Closing Time.” Much to the inmates' dismay, it has been more than three years since the president's decree that Guantanamo would be closed.

MiamiHerald.com
Why Algeria Is Not A Safe Country For Repatriation Of Guantánamo Prisoners – OpEd
Eurasia Review
Since July 2008, when the first Algerian prisoners were repatriated from Guantánamo, the position taken by the US government — first under George W. Bush, and, for the last three years, under Barack Obama — has been that Algeria is a safe country for ...
Algerian reimprisoned after Guantánamo extraditionMiamiHerald.com

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Former Guantánamo Prisoner Adel Al-Gazzar Is Freed In Egypt After Six Months ...
Eurasia Review
When looking at the stories of the released Guantánamo prisoners, one of the most tragic individual stories of last year was that of Adel al-Gazzar (aka Adel El-Gazzar), a former officer in the Egyptian army, who lost a leg in US custody and spent ...

UPI.com
USS Cole attorneys ask to question Saleh
UPI.com
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Attorneys for an alleged al-Qaida suspect accused in the USS Cole bombing say they want to question Yemen's president during his stay at a US hospital. Defense lawyers in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Tuesday asked a US ...
Yemen President Saleh to be subpoenaed over USS Cole attackBikya Masr

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