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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... [more]
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.
Early yesterday morning, the Canadian government, in compliance with court orders, released a video of Omar Khadr’s interrogation by Canadian Security and Intelligence Service agents at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The video, which is the first ever seen of CSIS agents in action, is already making waves internationally. Within hours of the release, front-page headlines were sparked everywhere from The New York Times to the BBC to Al Jazeera.
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Guantánamo video shows interrogation of sobbing Canadian youth Video grab showing 16-year-old Omar Khadr being interviewed by intelligence agents at Guantánamo Bay, in February 2003. Photograph: PA The first footage showing an interrogation at Guantánamo Bay was released today by the lawyers of Omar Khadr, a Canadian teenager detained by US forces. The video shows Khadr, at the time aged 16, interviewed by intelligence agents in 2003. During the footage he sobs uncontrollably, removes...
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Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, was held by American forces in Afghanistan in July 2002 and transferred to Guantánamo Naval Base in October 2002. Khadr was only 15 years old when he was taken to Guantánamo. He has spent more than a quarter of his life there and is now in his sixth year of confinement. The then child combatant, has been accused of killing a US soldier with a hand grenade. There is legitimate doubt about this claim. When the documents relating to Khadr's case changed hands...
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Below is a letter that I have written to Mr. Harper to protest the Canadian government’s treatment of Omar Khadr, one of its citizens. If you are not familiar with the story, you can find some excellent background at The Globe and Mail.
credit where credit is due: I received assistance from the staff of this blawg, but because this letter does not necessarily reflect their views, I have respected their wishes and not added their names.
A Letter to the Right Honourable Stephen Harper
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The phrase "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" has taken a new twist, as it has emerged that the interrogators at Guantanamo Bay were trained to use the techniques used against American soldiers by Communist China during the Korean War. The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of "coercive management techniques" for possible use on prisoners, including "sleep deprivation," "prolonged...
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National Security Reporter Michelle Shephard has traveled to Guantanamo Bay a dozen times. She will be there next week to report on a pre-trial hearing for Canadian prisoner Omar Khadr.
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BY PAUL CARTER A Tasmanian prison unit likened to Guantanamo Bay is being investigated for breaches of human rights standards. ...
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Omar Khadr has been incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay since he was 15, for more than a quarter of his life.
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AFP - Three more detainees have been transferred from the US "war on terror" detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their home countries, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
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Harold and Kumar are back for movie number 2 in Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay / Supplied BACK in 2004, there was plenty of love about for a ...
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The U.S. military has released three more prisoners from its prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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The Department of Defense announced today the transfer of three detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Two detainees were transferred to Afghanistan and one detainee was transferred to Pakistan. These detainees were determined to be eligible for transfer following a comprehensive series of review...
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Clive Stafford Smith, the lawyer representing British Guantanamo detainee, Binyam Mohamed, said: "Professor Chomsky is right. To borrow from President ...
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Washington, Sept.5 : Barack Obama's vice-presidential running mate, Joe Biden, has indicated that a new Democratic administration could pursue criminal charges against the Bush administration over the treatment of detainees in Guantanamo bay.
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