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U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 6, 2007 @ 11:50pm neoform

Washington Post -- Just months after U.S. Army troops whisked a German man from Pakistan to the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2002, his American captors concluded that he was not a terrorist. "USA considers Murat Kurnaz's innocence to be proven," a German i.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Dec 5, 2007 @ 9:46am neoform

MSNBC -- Are the terrorist suspects held at the Guantanamo Naval Base more akin to people accused in a criminal case or to German prisoners of war in 1944? An accused criminal can go to federal court to challenge his imprisonment; a German POW couldn’t. On.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Apr 29, 2007 @ 10:15pm neoform

Washington Post -- More than a fifth of the approximately 385 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been cleared for release but may have to wait months or years for their freedom because U.S. officials are finding it increasingly difficult to line up places to send them,.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Apr 29, 2007 @ 11:24am neoform

Washington Post -- More than a fifth of the approximately 385 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been cleared for release but may have to wait months or years for their freedom because U.S. officials are finding it increasingly difficult to line up places to send them,.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Mar 29, 2007 @ 9:57pm neoform

USA Today -- The Supreme Court is poised to announce — as early as Friday — if it will take up another confrontation over the rights of foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Two groups of detainees held for more than five years are asking the.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Thu Mar 15, 2007 @ 8:33am neoform

The Age -- SEVERAL weeks ago, I took the media tour at Guantanamo. From the moment I arrived on a frayed Air Sunshine prop-jet to the time I boarded the same plane to head home, I had no doubt that I was on an alien planet. Along with two European colleagues, I w.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 9, 2007 @ 12:52pm mrmdc

Yahoo News -- U.S. military officials will start hearings on Friday for 14 prisoners transferred to Guantanamo Bay from secret CIA jails, including the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks on the United States. Reporters will not be allowed at the hearings.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Feb 26, 2007 @ 4:47pm mrmdc

Guardian Unlimited -- A TV cameraman is getting an inside view of life at Guantanamo Bay prison - only he is unable to get out and tell the story. Sami al-Hajj, of the Al-Jazeera TV network, was stopped at the Afghanistan border by Pakistani authorities in December 2001, tu.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jan 4, 2007 @ 9:52pm neoform

Boston Herald -- FBI agents documented more than two dozen incidents of possible mistreatment at the Guantanamo Bay military base, including one detainee whose head was wrapped in duct tape for chanting the Quran and another who pulled out his hair after hours in a swelte.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 14, 2006 @ 9:20am neoform

Yahoo News -- Nearly 60% of voters in the recent U.S. national elections believe the prisoners being held in Guantanamo Bay should either be granted a hearing before an independent judge or be released to their home countries, and fewer than 20% of those polled believe.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Oct 22, 2006 @ 9:52am neoform

ABC News -- Abdul Rahim insists he's an apolitical student who fled a strict father. But he's fallen into a black hole in the war on terror in which first the Taliban and then the United States imprisoned him as an enemy of the state... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 5, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

BBC News -- The alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks on the US is to appear at a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay. It will be Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's first time in public since he was captured in Pakistan in 2003. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Dec 5, 2007 @ 10:01am neoform

BBC News -- The US Supreme Court is set to hold a hearing in two cases that are being seen as a legal showdown over the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. The cases challenge the removal by Congress of the "habeas corpus" right of detainees under the US consti.. 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 Mon Jun 4, 2007 @ 4:52pm neoform

USA Today -- A military judge on Monday dismissed terrorism-related charges against a prisoner charged with killing an American soldier in Afghanistan, in a stunning reversal for the Bush administration's attempts to try Guantanamo detainees in military court. The.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat May 19, 2007 @ 4:20am neoform

BBC News -- A US Navy lawyer faces six months in prison and dismissal from service for sending a human rights lawyer the names of 550 Guantanamo Bay detainees. Lt Cdr Matthew Diaz, 41, posted a list of the names in an unmarked Valentine's Day card during the final.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 16, 2007 @ 3:49pm neoform

MSNBC -- A Pakistani terrorism suspect denied any connection to al-Qaida and said he was tortured and his family was hounded by U.S. authorities, according to a transcript released Tuesday by the Pentagon. Majid Khan, in a lengthy written statement, said the CI.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 3, 2007 @ 12:13am neoform

USA Today -- By Joan Biskupic, USA TODAYWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court refused on Monday to hear appeals by Guantanamo prisoners held for more than five years, in the latest action in a long-running dispute over the Bush administration's handling of terrorism suspect.. Read More