Topic: Guantanamo Bay

With all the controversy pushed by Fox News and others about the fist bump that Barack Obama and his wife Michelle shared on stage, I thought I would point out that a lot of people have used this " Does that mean ...
According to a front page article in this morning's NYTimes 3-23-07, Dick Cheney and Alberto Gonzales blocked a proposal by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, supported by Secretary of State Condolezza Rice to close the notorious U.S. prison of no return at Guantanamo. ...

Taxi to the Dark Side

"Taxi to the Dark Side" Not because it is by any stretch of the imagination a bad movie, or because I disagreed with its message, but because it really crystallized in my mind what's wrong with the way we deal with supposed ...
David Hicks a Guantanamo Bay? Detainee for six years has been home in Australia for over three years now. quickly determine whether there is enough evidence to detain them or not.You might remember that shortly after the first accused terrorists reached the ...
Inmate David Hicks pleaded guilty to providing material support to al-Qaeda and the Taliban. One hundred seventy-six men remain imprisoned inside the Guantanamo prison without trial, many without any charges filed against them. The first U.S. presence on Guantanamo Bay was a ...

First Guantanamo trial under Obama opens

The first Guantanamo trial of Barack Obama's presidency opened Tuesday with Canadian detainee Omar Khadr, who was captured by US troops in Afghanistan at age 15, facing a military tribunal.Khadr appeared in the court room dressed in western clothing and a tie, ...

Obama's security stands raise eyebrows to his left

From indefinite detention of terror suspects, to closed military commissions, low transparency, and targeted drone hits: Barack Obama's administration and its security stands have raised eyebrows of many of those to his own left.Indeed, some fear he is following in the footsteps ...
Also worth a look is "The Guantanamo 'Suicides': A Camp Delta Sergeant Blows the Whistle" (Harper's Magazine, January 18). In it, David Cole talks about the Supreme Court's recent decision to refuse to hear the case of his client, Canadian citizen Maher ...

Bush Law Continued

The article discusses how policies made by U.S. President Barack Obama are different from those of former U.S. President George W. Bush concerning the detainees at the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, how policies concerning the conflict with Al Qaeda were ...
The Obama administration plans to transfer a Guantanamo detainee to Yemen despite its ban on the repatriations due to security concerns in the Arab country, The Washington Post reported Saturday.The administration's January decision on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the prison camp where nearly ...