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...
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.
The Pentagon says more of the terror suspects released from the Guantanamo Bay prison are returning to the fight. Defense Department press secretary Geoff Morrell says a new report shows the recidivism rate among former suspects released from the prison in Cuba continues its upward trend. He did not release the figures, but said officials are working to declassify the latest report so the rate can be made public. The rate of those returning to militancy was first reported to be 11 percent. In April it was 14 percent. Morrell says he believes the numbers are rising because the majority of prisoners have been ...
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Here is a riddle if you are captured in a theatre of war, flown to a prison thousands of miles away and held there until your release, think you might hold a grudge. Turns out this is true as the Pentagon released a report saying that one in five terror suspects released from the Guantanamo Bay prison has returned to the fight. This is not going to stop President Barack Obama’s plan to close the military prison because he has to he said he would do it and no matter how many lives it cost he needs to be right. This rate has risen ...
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WASHINGTON – One in five terror suspects released from the Guantanamo Bay prison has returned to the fight, according to a classified Pentagon report expected to stoke an already fierce debate over President Barack Obama 's plan to close the military prison .
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Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- As many as one in five former Guantanamo Bay detainees are suspected of or are confirmed to have engaged in terrorist activity after their release, U.S. officials said, citing the latest government statistics.
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Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- As many as one in five former Guantanamo Bay detainees are suspected of or confirmed to have engaged in terrorist activity after their release, U.S. officials said, citing the latest government statistics.
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One in five terrorism suspects released from the Guantanamo Bay prison has returned to the fight, according to a classified Pentagon report expected to stoke an already fierce debate over President Barack Obama's plan to close the military prison.
One of Obama’s biggest campaign promises was to close Guantanamo Bay immediately. And he did indeed issue an executive order to close Gitmo within one calendar year from the date of the executive order. This, like many of Obama’s other broken promises, is not going to happen. Obama had until January 22, [...]
WASHINGTON — A series of U.S. predator drone strikes just after dawn this morning killed at least 220 suspected terrorists, many presumed to have ties with al-Qaeda, at the naval detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to two senior White House officials.
“We hit the jackpot,” said one official who requested anonymity because of the [...]
When it comes to being detained indefinitely at Guantanamo Bay, it's not so much what you know as whom you know. Or whom you are alleged to know. Or whom you may know. Someday.[more ...]
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President Obama said airline passengers can expect beefed-up security measures in the future following the botched Christmas Day terror attack, but that he still plans to close Guantanamo Bay.
Obama said that the attempted attack would not change his mind concerning his campaign pledge to close the terror prison that...