The Guantanamo Bay detainment camp

A community portal about The Guantanamo Bay detainment camp with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Guantánamo Bay detainment camp serves as a joint military prison and interrogation center under the leadership of Joint Task Force Guantanamo and has occupied a portion of the United States Navy's base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba since 2002. The prison holds people suspected by the Executive branch of the U.S. government of being al-Qaeda and Taliban operatives, but with some people no longer considered suspects who are being held pending relocation elsewhere. The prisoners were captured in Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world.

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Algerian court clears Guantanamo detainees

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An Algiers court on Sunday cleared two men held at Guantanamo Bay for seven years, according to a legal source. Faghoul Abdelli and Mohamed Terari were accused of belonging to an overseas terrorist group but were acquitted by the criminal court in Algiers. During the trial, the men said they were "savagely tortured" while in detention at the US-run prison camp in Cuba. They were alleged to have left Algeria in the early 1990s for Germany, before travelling to Afghanistan, where they were arrested by Pakistani police following the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States. The Algerian state prosecutor had called for ... Read Full Story

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FACT CHECK: Guantanamo detainees and US prisons

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As the Obama administration considers a plan to move Guantanamo Bay detainees to prisons on U.S. soil, including possible sites in Illinois and Michigan, proponents and critics are spinning the facts. The nearly vacant Thomson Correctional Center in the western Illinois farming town of Thomson is the latest potential candidate being evaluated to hold detainees after President Barack Obama promised to close the military-run detention center in Cuba. Federal officials inspected Thomson on Monday after visiting another proposed site, a shuttered prison in the northeast Michigan town of Standish, in August. Here is a look at some of claims about security, economic impact and ... Read Full Story

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Officials discuss plans for Gitmo inmates in Ill.

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Gov. Pat Quinn and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin on Sunday tried to build support and counter criticism of a proposal to sell a prison in rural northwestern Illinois to the federal government to house Guantanamo Bay detainees and other inmates. Federal officials are expected to visit the maximum security Thomson Correctional Center, about 150 miles west of Chicago, on Monday. Both Quinn and Durbin said the possibility of selling the prison to the federal government was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help create about 3,000 jobs, both at the prison and directly in surrounding communities in an area where unemployment has topped 10 percent. "We ... Read Full Story

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Obama: No exact deadline for closing Gitmo

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President Barack Obama says he won't set a new deadline for closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison, but does expect the facility to shut down sometime next year. The administration no longer feels it can meet the January 2010 deadline Obama set for closure soon after taking office. Obama says he isn't disappointed about missing the deadline, but has realized that things move slower in Washington than he expected. Obama says the timeline for closing Guantanamo will depend on cooperation from Congress. About 220 detainees remain at the prison, and the administration must decide how to prosecute some in U.S. courts and turn others ... Read Full Story

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Obama may not meet Guantanamo deadline: top aide

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US President Barack Obama remains committed to closing the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison, but may not meet a January 2010 deadline, a top White House aide said on Sunday. "We believe we are going to substantially meet the deadline," David Axelrod, senior adviser to the president, told NBC. "We may not hit it on the date, but we will close Guantanamo. And we are making good progress toward doing that." Efforts to shutter the sprawling facility, which sits on Cuba's southeastern tip, have been plagued by debate over the fate of its remaining 215 detainees. The Obama administration took a step toward resolving that ... Read Full Story

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Pentagon official on Gitmo closure resigns

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US official working on closing the Guantanamo Bay prison has resigned, a Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday, the second senior US official tasked with closing the site who has resigned in weeks. Phillip Carter was appointed deputy ...

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Guantanamo Bay book nominated for top children's book prize

Anne Perera's Guantanamo Boy has been nominated for the Costa Children's Book Prize A novel about the notorious detainment camp at Guantanamo Bay has been nominated for a top children's book prize. Guantanamo Boy by Anna Perera, the wife of Dire ...

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Omar Khadr still in detention in Guantanamo Bay

In as much as the idea of sovereignty seems to have become porous in the face of the homogenizing forces of globalization, the extent to which a country has the responsibility or power to protect its citizens outside of its geographical territory is still debatable.

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