Topic: Guantanamo Bay
The Obama administration wants to keep some 50 Guantanamo detainees locked up indefinitely because they are too dangerous to release and evidence against them is insufficient for a criminal trial, the Washington Post said Friday.On the anniversary of President Barack Obama's executive ...
LONDON (Reuters) - The Obama administration has failed to properly investigate evidence suggesting suicides by two Saudis and a Yemeni held at Guantanamo Bay in 2006 were " They were the first prisoners to die at the Guantanamo naval base in Cuba ...
Obama administration officials say a classified Pentagon report concludes that of 560 detainees transferred from the prison at Guantanamo bay to other countries, about one in five has engaged in, or is suspected of engaging in, terrorist or militant activity.. And my ...
US President Barack Obama is to transfer dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainees to a jail in rural Illinois as he battles to close the notorious facility on Cuba's southern tip, officials said. It was not immediately clear how many of the 210 ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration said on Tuesday it will move some Guantanamo Bay detainees to an Illinois prison and hold U.S. military commission trials there in plans immediately criticized as risky by Republicans.President Barack Obama's top national security aides said ...
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria should accept one detainee from the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba after a request from Washington to house prisoners, Prime Minister Boiko Borisov said on Saturday.His deputy Tsvetan Tsvetanov, who is also interior minister, said ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration has focused on an Illinois prison as it searches for a facility to house terrorism suspects now at Guantanamo Bay, but has not made a final decision, Illinois officials said on Friday.Democratic Senator Dick Durbin and ...
PARIS (Reuters) - An Algerian man who had been detained at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo in Cuba since 2002 has been transferred to France, the French Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.The ministry named the man as Saber Lahmar and said ...
US President Barack Obama admitted for the first time on Wednesday that the United States would miss the January 2010 deadline he set for closing the US war on terror prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. "Guantanamo -- we had a specific deadline ...
Prominent Republicans on Sunday lashed out at the administration's decision to try five alleged plotters of the 9/11 attacks in a New York civilian court, saying it would harm efforts to fight terrorism.While President Barack Obama's team defended the move, his political ...
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