Topic: Guantanamo Bay
In the midst of the barbed wire and watchtowers dotting Guantanamo's green hills, construction workers continue to build despite US President Barack Obama's promise to close the prison.Nearly 10 years since the first handful of detainees arrived at the US naval base ...
President Barack Obama has lifted a ban on new military trials for Guantanamo Bay terror suspects, apparently conceding that the camp he has vowed to close will not be emptied any time soon.Obama also issued new guidelines to ensure humane and lawful ...
Almost nine years ago to the day, a prison for "war on terror" detainees opened its doors in a remote US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. And despite grand promises, it is unlikely to shut any time soon."At this point, it is ...
According to media reports, President-elect Barack Obama 's transition team has been quietly working on a plan to shut down the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. Barack Obama 'proposes to move terrorists suspects from Guantanamo Bay' (November 10, 2008) U.S. military tribunals have ...
In March 2008, former secretaries of state Colin Powell , Henry Kissinger , James Baker III, Warren Christopher and Madeleine Albright urged the next presidential administration to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp and open a dialogue with Iran , arguing that ...
On August 13 , 2008 , CBS4 News reported that a warehouse owned by the City of Denver had been set up as a detention center in preparation for the possibility of mass arrests at the 2008 Democratic National Convention . The ...
First, let's be clear about what exactly President Barack Obama reversed himself on. Obama's stated intention to keep some of the estimated 240 Gitmo detainees in detention indefinitely (in the U.S. or overseas), and to bring back the controversial military tribunals; which ...
The Obama administration's decision to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay is controversial precisely because it goes to the core of key policy changes at the heart of the current war on terror. On the surface, President Obama's decision to close ...
Shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 , allegations of prisoner abuse by Americans began to circulate, particularly involving detainees at Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq . "Torture at Abu Ghraib" (June 4, 2004) The U.S. government, under George W. Bush ...
)President Obama has decided to "adhere to the policies of the Bush Administration"regarding the detainees at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. Thisday in office he vowed to shut down Guantanamo Bay within a year, buthe's still planning to expand Bagram? The ...
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Al Jazeera's Monica Villamizar takes a look at the ...2010-04-30
