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 Obama: 
 We Won't 
 Make Gitmo 
 Deadline 

Pres tells Fox's Major Garrett prison will close after Jan 2010

Nov 18, 09 5:40 AM CST
(Newser) - Guantanamo Bay prison won't close by the January deadline he set when he took office, President Obama admitted today, but he still hopes to shut it next year. Obama is "not disappointed" in missing the deadline, he says in a FoxNews interview airing this morning, since closing the facility... More »

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 Prison in Illinois 
 May Replace Gitmo 

Thompson site is top contender, but local congressmen are opposed

Nov 14, 09 2:04 PM CST
(Newser) - The leading contender to take Guantanamo Bay's prisoners when it shuts down is a federal prison in Illinois, sources tell the Chicago Tribune . The near-empty facility in the small town of Thompson, about 150 miles west of Chicago, would take an unspecified but "limited" number of Gitmo's remaining 215... More »

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Prosecutors Hope Plea Deals Will Close Gitmo Cases

Federal, Military prosecutors fight for rare testimony

Nov 13, 09 4:45 PM CST
(Newser) - Federal and military prosecutors looking to convict Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other high-profile Guantanamo Bay detainees are competing with each other to offer plea bargains to lower-profile inmates in exchange for testimony. Some detainees have remained at Gitmo because they are considered too difficult to prosecute, and the evidence against... More »

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military • terrorism • Guantanamo Bay • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • Guantanamo prisoners • detainees • federal prosecution • Obama administration • Gitmo

 Gitmo Mickey Dee's Now Hiring 

Burger-flipper sought for Cuba's sole McDonald's

Nov 11, 09 7:32 AM CST
(Newser) - The only McDonald's in Cuba is looking for an assistant manager. An ad posted on a job website last week invited candidates with valid American passports to apply for a job at the franchise at the Guantanamo Bay base. Burgers are shipped in from Florida and detainees cleared by the... More »

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 6 Gitmo Uighurs Arrive in Palau 

Latest transfers trade prison for ocean views

Nov 1, 09 7:56 AM CST
(AP) - Six Chinese Muslims newly released from Guantanamo Bay traded life behind bars today for rooms with ocean view in the tiny Pacific nation of Palau. The Uighurs, in US custody since 2001, were met at the airport in the middle of the night by President Johnson Toribiong and taken to... More »

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ANALYSIS

No Clear Way for US to Prosecute Gitmo Prisoners

Experts split on whether to use federal courts or military commissions

Oct 29, 09 11:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama is edging closer to his goal of closing the Guantanamo Bay prison: Congress has approved detainee trials on US soil and the National Defense Authorization Act, passed yesterday, attempts to repair the damaged legality of President Bush’s military-commissions system. But hurdles remain, with legal scholars split on... More »

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Bush administration • terrorism • military tribunal • Guantanamo Bay • detainee • Human Rights Watch • Guantanamo prisoners • Obama administration • President Obama • National Defense Authorization Act

 Stars Demand 
 Bush 'Music 
 Torture' Files 

Time for torturers to face the music, say celebs

Oct 22, 09 2:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - A coalition of celebrity musicians is demanding the release of Bush administration documents revealing how music was used to torture Guantanamo Bay inmates. Songs from Metallica, The Real Slim Shady, and the Star Spangled Banner, among many others, were blasted all day for days on end to rattle prisoners, inmates... More »

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Bush administration • music • torture • Eminem • Guantanamo Bay • prisoners • country music • Guantanamo prisoners • Metallica • heavy metal • David Byrne • Rage Against the Machine • Tom Morello • Bonnie Raitt

Senate OKs US Trials for Gitmo Prisoners

Obama expected to
sign measure aimed at speeding jail's closure

Oct 20, 09 7:54 PM CDT
(AP) - President Obama won a modest victory today in his continuing effort to close the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba and allowing the government to continue to transfer detainees to the US for prosecution. The plan to permit terror suspects to be shipped to U.S. soil to face trial passed... More »

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OPINION

 Bush AG: 
 Court Terror 
 Trials Too 
 Dangerous 

Challenges to security, secrecy would be 'overwhelming'

Oct 19, 09 4:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration wants to try alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other Guantanamo detainees in federal courts—and that's a major mistake, says Michael Mukasey. Terrorism trials pose "overwhelming" security challenges, and classified information would have to be revealed, warns George Bush's relatively moderate third attorney general... More »

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 US Eyes Saudi Rehab 
 for Yemeni Detainees 

But Saudi Arabia not jumping at the chance to take in Guantanamo detainees

Oct 14, 09 9:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - When a Saudi Arabian returns home from Guantanamo Bay, a top Saudi prince personally informs their families—then asks them to sign guarantees that he will not return to terrorism. It’s part of Saudi Arabia’s highly effective extremist rehabilitation program, which has so far graduated 108 detainees. Now,... More »

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 Uighur Won't Leave Brother 
 at Gitmo—So He's Staying 

Neither is guilty, but one has no offer of resettlement

Sep 28, 09 10:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bahtiyar Mahnut, a Chinese Uighur detainee at Guantanamo Bay, is guilty of no crime. In fact, he’s free to leave and even has an offer of sanctuary from the island nation of Palau, like all of his compatriots save one. And that one, his brother Arkin, is why he’... More »

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(AP) - The White House acknowledged for the first time yesterday that President Obama may not be able to meet his stated goal of closing the much-criticized Guantanamo Bay prison by January. Daunting legal and logistical hurdles remain to moving the more than 220 detainees still there: completing reviews of each detainee's... More »

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White House Counsel May Quit Over Gitmo Struggles

Craig taking heat as January closing deadline slips away

Sep 25, 09 4:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration's promise to close Guantanamo Bay within a year is in serious danger of being broken, and White House counsel Greg Craig may be leaving his post because of it, senior officials say. Craig ordered the January deadline after being advised not to by outgoing Bush administration officials... More »

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OPINION

 Closing Spruced-Up 
 Gitmo Would 
 Be a Waste 

Task force steams ahead with quality-of-living improvements

Sep 24, 09 1:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Money is being poured into improving the quality of life for Guantanamo detainees just as the government works toward closing the detention center, writes a puzzled Judith Miller after a tour. Recreation facilities and classrooms are being expanded, and inmates have access to satellite TV. Prisoners are given a choice... More »

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Gitmo Defendants Given
My Lai Massacre Film

Trials of 9/11 accused delayed for another 60 days

Sep 22, 09 4:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Guantanamo Bay prisoners accused of planning the 9/11 attacks asked for and were given copies of a film about the My Lai massacre, Reuters reports. The Guantanamo war crimes court was told during a hearing yesterday that Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley, a 1975 courtroom drama about... More »

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 New Photo of 
 9/11 Mastermind 
 Used to Spur Jihad 

Red Cross photo of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed hits net

Sep 10, 09 7:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - The family of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed released new photos of the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, and they've been showing up on sites used by al-Qaeda sympathizers to recruit terrorists. The images, taken by the Red Cross as part of its monitoring of Guantanamo Bay prisoners, are the... More »

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(Newser) - The Justice Department is seeking to determine if military defense attorneys for Guantanamo Bay detainees broke the law protecting classified material by showing prisoners photographs of covert CIA officers and contractors, reports the Washington Post. Three lawyers apparently used the photographs in an attempt to identify potential participants in abuses... More »

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10 EU Countries, Others, in Deals to Take Gitmo Detainees

White House upbeat on 80 cleared for release

Aug 20, 09 8:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - The White House, in talks ranging from Australia to Georgia, is making progress on its attempts to resettle Guantanamo Bay detainees, the Washington Post reports. Ten EU countries have agreed to take detainees; the US is negotiating with Saudi Arabia to accept Guantanamo's 98 Yemenis; and 11 detainees, including four... More »

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(Newser) - Obama administration officials are traveling to Michigan today to visit a maximum-security prison that could be used to hold some or all of the 229 terrorism suspects now at Guantanamo Bay, reports the Detroit News. Members of the Defense, Justice, and Homeland Security Departments are all touring the facility. Local... More »

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(Newser) - The Obama administration is fighting to keep details secret in the case of a former Guantanamo detainee who says he was tortured, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. A San Francisco court has ruled Binyam Mohamed and four others can sue the company they allege flew them to secret CIA prisons—... More »

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