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U.S. / NEWS Sun Oct 21, 2007 @ 12:45pm neoform

New York Times -- Well into the night of Sunday, Jan. 2, 2005, lt. Cmdr. Matthew Diaz sat alone at his desk in the headquarters of the American detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, consumed with a new project. He often worked late. From the time Diaz enlisted in t.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Fri Jan 12, 2007 @ 10:34am mrmdc

Christian Science Monitor -- Thursday marks the fifth anniversary of the day the US military flew the first of some 700 battlefield detainees from Afghanistan to Guantánamo. Some of those same men are among the 395 still held at Guantánamo today. None of the detainees has ever had.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Nov 4, 2006 @ 2:37pm neoform

Washington Post -- The Bush administration has told a federal judge that terrorism suspects held in secret CIA prisons should not be allowed to reveal details of the "alternative interrogation methods" that their captors used to get them to talk... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Nov 1, 2006 @ 10:22pm neoform

Washington Post -- Attorneys for captives in the Guantanamo Bay military prison asked a federal appeals court yesterday to reject a provision of the new military-commission law that strips hundreds of detainees of their right to challenge their detention in U.S. courts... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 30, 2007 @ 12:39pm neoform

Washington Post -- The Supreme Court yesterday reversed itself and agreed to consider whether detainees at Guantanamo Bay have been unfairly barred from the federal courts by the Bush administration and Congress, a move that may finally determine legal rights for foreign-bo.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 29, 2007 @ 11:14am neoform

CNN -- The Supreme Court, reversing course, agreed Friday to review whether Guantanamo Bay detainees may go to federal court to challenge their indefinite confinement. The action, announced without comment along with other end-of-term orders, is a setback for.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 5, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

BBC News -- A US military judge has thrown out charges against two Guantanamo Bay detainees, casting fresh doubt on efforts to try foreign terror suspects. Both cases collapsed because military authorities had failed to designate the men as "unlawful" enemy combat.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 5, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

FOX News -- Military judges dismissed charges Monday against a Guantanamo detainee who chauffeured Usama bin Laden and another who allegedly killed a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan, marking a stunning setback to Washington's attempts to try detainees in military court... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 4, 2007 @ 9:56pm neoform

CNN -- Military judges dismissed charges Monday against a Guantanamo detainee who chauffeured Osama bin Laden and another who allegedly killed a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan, marking a setback to Washington's attempts to try detainees in military court. In bac.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Oct 17, 2006 @ 3:39pm neoform

Times Online -- President Bush today signed into law a controversial Bill that permits the tough interrogation of foreign terror suspects and smooths the way for Guantanamo Bay detainees to be tried before military commissions without any legal representation... Read More