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Bush OKs New Interrogation Guidelines

CIA program will continue with "enhanced" methods

Jul 21, 07 9:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush set broad new limits for questioning of CIA terror detainees yesterday, the Washington Post reports. The new regulations for "enhanced" interrogations—used to press suspects by means not allowed in US military custody—are an attempt at partial compliance with the Geneva Conventions. More »

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CIA • torture • human rights • Guantanamo Bay • Geneva Convention • George W. Bush

Supremes Will Hear Gitmo Cases

Inmates seek right to challenge confinement in federal court

Jun 29, 07 10:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two Guantanamo Bay detainees will have their say before the Supreme Court, which today unexpectedly agreed to hear their cases in the term that begins this fall. The prisoners want permission to challenge their indefinite confinement in federal court. The high court had rejected an identical appeal in April, and... More »

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Bush administration • White House • Guantanamo Bay • detainee • habeas corpus • US Supreme Court

White House Splits Over
Closing Gitmo

Legal puzzles stump Bush aides as shutdown gains momentum

Jun 22, 07 5:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush is under mounting pressure to shut the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, but top aides remain deeply divided over the fate of 375 detainees there. Bush has said he wants to the close the prison, but WaPo reports senior officials including Dick Cheney are opposed to shipping detainees... More »

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Dick Cheney • prison • Steny Hoyer • Guantanamo Bay • detainee • repatriation • al-Qaeda • George W. Bush

6 Guantanamo Detainees
Sent Home

One prisoner faces persecution in Tunisia; lawyer opposed release

Jun 20, 07 12:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Six prisoners held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base have been returned to their home countries—four to Tunisia and two to Yemen—the AP reports. One detainee's lawyer opposed the transfer on the grounds that he may face abuse for nonviolent political activism. More »

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Tunisia • Guantanamo Bay • detainee • Yemen • Abdullah bin Omar • Guantanamo prisoners

Federal Court Orders Military to Free Civilian

Ruling rebukes Bush administration, which plans to appeal

Jun 11, 07 4:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US may not keep a civilian believed to be an enemy combatant in military custody, a federal appeals court ruled today, finding that President Bush "cannot eliminate constitutional protections with the stroke of a pen." The administration quickly announced its intention to appeal the decision that Ali... More »

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Bush administration • federal courts • enemy combatants • Ali al Marri • US Court of Appeals • Qatar • Guantanamo Bay • court • al-Qaeda • George W. Bush

Gitmo Charges Against 2 Are Dismissed

Judges find flaw that could undermine the case of every other detainee

Jun 5, 07 9:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - The system of military tribunals for Guantanamo detainees was thrown into chaos yesterday when military judges separately struck down charges against two detainees. The rulings were both on technicalities: the detainees, one 15 years old when captured 5 years ago, were designated "enemy combatants" and not "unlawful enemy... More »

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military tribunal • enemy combatants • Guantanamo Bay • detainee • international law

Gitmo Prisoner Kills Himself

Saudi detainee found dead in cell; fourth suicide at US prison

May 31, 07 4:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Saudi prisoner is dead at Guantanamo Bay in an apparent suicide. US officials are still stingy on details, offering only that "the detainee was found unresponsive and not breathing in his cell by guards." They still haven't released a name. More »

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War on Terror • suicide • Guantanamo Bay • prisoners • detainee • Guantanamo prisoners

Guantanamo Detainee Returns to Australia

Al-Qaeda supporter goes straight to prison

May 19, 07 9:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - After five years in custody at Guantanamo Bay, David Hicks is back in his native Australia, where the convicted Al-Qaeda supporter will spend the next seven months in a maximum-security prison. His family and other supporters spent years campaigning for his release before Hicks pleaded guilty in March to providing... More »

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Afghanistan • terrorism • David Hicks • Australia • Guantanamo Bay • detainee • Guantanamo prisoners • al-Qaeda

'High-Value' Gitmo Detainee Alleges Torture

Pakistani national denies scouting for Al-Qaeda

May 16, 07 12:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - A 27-year-old Pakistani says he has been tortured since being moved last year from a CIA jail to the Guantanamo Bay detention center. Majid Khan, who once lived in Maryland, denies belonging to Al-Qaeda, but he was transferred to Cuba in September with 13 other "high-value" operatives after being... More »

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CIA • torture • terror plots • Majid Khan • Guantanamo Bay • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • al-Qaeda

Debate Torture for GOP Hopefuls

Front-runners clash over interrogation techniques, conservative credibility

May 16, 07 7:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ten Republican presidential candidates mixed it up in an often boisterous and contentious debate last night at the University of South Carolina. John McCain, Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney, in particular, clashed on the war in Iraq, abortion rights, immigration, each other's conservative credentials and the use of torture in... More »

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Mitt Romney • John McCain • Rudy Giuliani • torture • presidential campaign • GOP • presidential debate • Guantanamo Bay • Election 2008 • Iraq war

Afghan Prison Is as Bad as Gitmo

May 3, 07 3:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - The U.S. prison at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan is as bad as Guantanamo, reports Eliza Griswold in the New Republic. Prisoners are kept in barbed-wire cages, beaten, tortured, raped, and held without promise of trial. But unlike Gitmo, Bagram has no visiting congressional delegations. More »

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Afghanistan • War on Terror • human rights • prison • Bagram Air Force Base • Guantanamo Bay • human rights violations

Supreme Court Blocks Gitmo Detainees

Justices rule on police chases, patents; will hear Texas death-penalty case

Apr 30, 07 2:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Supreme Court will not hear the cases of two Guantanamo detainees who sought to challenge the government's policy on military tribunals, it announced today. But it will hear arguments this fall in the case of a Texas death row inmate, a Mexican national whose appeal was supported by the... More »

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military tribunal • trial • Guantanamo Bay • court • justice • detainee • US Supreme Court

U.S. Unveils
7/7 Bombing Mastermind at Guantanamo

Bin Laden aide captured last year

Apr 28, 07 8:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - U.S. officials revealed yesterday they have Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, widely considered the architect of the 7/7 London transit attacks, in custody at Guantanamo Bay. The CIA nabbed al-Hadi as he tried to enter Iraq last year, and the announcement suggests—the Times reports—that he's been in a "... More »

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Iraq • Pervez Musharraf • Abd al Hadi al Iraqi • london transit attacks • Guantanamo Bay • al-Qaeda

Gitmo Prisoners Go
On Hunger Strike

13 protest supermax conditions

Apr 9, 07 11:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Thirteen detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention center are on hunger strike, protesting conditions at a maximum-security block known as Camp Six, where 160 inmates are locked in their 8-by-10-foot cells for at least 22 hours a day. It's the first major strike since early 2006, when Gitmo commanders started... More »

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human rights • prison • Guantanamo Bay • detainee • US Army • hunger strike

Supreme Court Rejects Appeals From Gitmo Detainees

Win for Bush policy
on terror suspects

Apr 2, 07 12:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Supreme Court declined to hear the case of detainees at Guantanamo who challenged the constitutionality of  their confinement, the Washington Post  reports. The rejected appeal  questioned the validity of the military commissions law passed last year, and the legality of being held for more than five years with being... More »

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Bush administration • terrorism • prison • Guantanamo Bay • US Supreme Court • constitutionality

Hicks Will Walk After 9 Months

Australian's 7-year sentence for aiding terrorists suspended in exchange for silence

Mar 31, 07 11:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Australian terror suspect David Hicks will serve just nine months more in detention, the AP reports, despite receiving a seven-year sentence from a military tribunal at Guantánamo yesterday. In an extraordinary plea deal, the rest of the sentence was suspended in exchange for his silence about his treatment during... More »

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Afghanistan • David Hicks • Australia • military tribunal • Guantanamo Bay • guilty plea

They're Lucky They're Not in Guantánamo

Novelist notes British captives have it easy, as detainees go

Mar 30, 07 11:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iran's British captives may be embarrassed and anxious, but they  appear to be better off than many detainees in American and British hands, observes novelist Ronan Bennett. "They have not been hung from a forklift truck and photographed for the amusement of their captors. They have not had electrodes... More »

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Iran • torture • captives • Guantanamo Bay • detainee • hostage

Gitmo Detainee Pleads Guilty

Australian who trained with al Quaeda has spent five years in custody

Mar 27, 07 6:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - David Hicks became the first person convicted under President Bush's much-maligned military tribunal system after entering a surprise guilty plea  to charges of providing material support to terrorists. The contentious proceedings may prove a new source of controversy, however, as the judge excluded Hicks' stwo civilian lawyers from court and... More »

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War on Terror • politics • David Hicks • Australia • military tribunal • Guantanamo Bay • court • conviction • detainee • guilty plea • al-Qaeda • George W. Bush

Gates Pushed
to Close Guantanamo

New defense secretary butted heads with Cheney, Gonzales

Mar 23, 07 8:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Newly appointed Defense Secretary Robert Gates pushed hard for shutting down the controversial detention center at Guantanamo Bay, but  was blocked by Cheney and Gonzales, until Bush pulled the plug on the argument.  Gates at least succeeded in halting a $100 million expansion of the prison he felt had... More »

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Bush administration • War on Terror • Dick Cheney • Alberto Gonzales • politics • prison • Robert Gates • Guantanamo Bay • abuse • defense secretary • George W. Bush

Gitmo Tagged for Cuban Refugees

Navy plans to prevent post-Castro Cuban exodus

Mar 6, 07 11:01 AM CST
(Newser) - Anticipating that Fidel Castro's death will prompt thousands of Cubans to attempt to join their expatriate countrymen in South Florida, U.S. authorities are making space for them—in Cuba. The Miami Herald reports that the DOD has budgeted $18 million to expand its base at Guantanamo Bay to handle... More »

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Florida • Fidel Castro • Cuba • United States • Guantanamo Bay • refugee

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