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Guantanamo Bay Naval Base

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By ATMO productions. In the wake of 911 2001 terrorist attacks, the USA opened a prison camp at Guantanomo Bay. The Hundreds of prisoners believed to be detained there are not afforded prisoner of war status according to the Geneva Convention. They are labelled unlawful combatants, held indefinitely with no right to a lawyer or a trial. "You really need to treat them like dogs, or else if you treat them any better then that you have effectively lost control of the interrogation" This...Read Full Story

Guantanamo: : A Cold Sore On The Face Of America

By thepublicrecord on  From pubrecord.org
Guantanamo detainee Fayiz al-Kandari Recently, the Kuwaiti Prime Minister, Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, traveled to the United States and, in a meeting with Vice President Biden, once again asserted Kuwait’s interest in seeing its two remaining citizens (Fayiz Al-Kandari and Fawzi Al-Odah) returned from America’s island prison in Guantanamo Bay (GTMO). While I applaud the Prime Minister addressing this issue, virtually identical appeals from Kuwait have fallen upon deaf...Read Full Story

Wilkerson Demolishes Bush, Cheney, And Rumsfeld’s Lies About Guantanamo

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Col. Lawrence Wilkerson served as chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell Those of us who have been studying the recent career of Col. Lawrence Wilkerson were not surprised when, last week, he submitted a declaration ( PDF ) in a lawsuit seeking compensation from the US government that was filed by former Guantánamo prisoner Adel Hassan Hamad . A Sudanese hospital worker, Hamad was sold to US forces by their unscrupulous Pakistani allies in the summer of 2002, but was only...Read Full Story

The 11-Year Old American Girl Who Knows More About Guantánamo Than Most US Lawmakers

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I’m posting below an essay about Guantánamo, written as a school project by Sammie Killmer, a sixth-grade schoolgirl in Denver, Colorado, who understands more about Guantánamo and the men held there than most adults in a position of influence in the United States. This is not coincidental, as her father is Darold Killmer, an attorney whose law firm represents five prisoners still in Guantánamo: Musa’ab Omar Al Madhwani (ISN 839), Abdul Rahman Al Qyati (ISN 461), Sa’ad Al Azani (ISN 575...Read Full Story

U.S. flouts law at Guantanamo, despite Obama vow: U.N. (Reuters)

By nileshzimbio on  From old.news.yahoo.com
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United States is still flouting international law at Guantanamo Bay, despite President Barack Obama's election pledge to shut the facility, the United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay said on Monday.Read Full Story
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White House Circulates Gitmo Draft Order(TIME)

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As reported last December in The New American, the commander of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, Rear Admiral David Woods, issued a fundamental rule change regarding the military’s right to access and review written communication exchanged between ...  
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It's a Navy-wide goal to halve dependence on fossil fuels by 2020. But the greening of Gitmo, as this base is known, comes with a particular challenge. The base that today houses 6,000 people makes all its own electricity and desalinates its own water.  
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Fox has obtained an unclassified House GOP report which blasts two presidential administrations for their policies regarding detainees held at Guantanamo Bay . The report claims both the Bush and [...]  
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A lawyer who filed suit in Washington, D.C., seeking relief from a rule that requires officials at the Guantanamo Bay military prison to review attorney-client mail, is at least the second to do so. James Connell's suit, which names Rear Adm. David Woods as a defendant, was filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., and was made public after a security review and some redactions, reports the Associated Press. Connell is a civilian lawyer...  
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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.  "Rarely in the history of the House Armed Services Committee has so much time and money been spent with so little result," said Rep. Jim Cooper, a conservative Tennessee Democrat in a...  
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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.  
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The Obama administration is considering the controversial release of several senior Taliban figures from Guantanamo Bay. Diplomatic sources say they would probably be relocated to Qatar in the Persian Gulf, where the Taliban is negotiating the establishment of a liaison office to facilitate dialogue with the U.S. James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence told the Senate Intelligence Committee this week that such transfers, though...  
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