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(Newser) - Palau’s president Johnson Toribiong today said five of the 13 Uighurs held at Guantanamo Bay and set to be resettled in his country don't want to go, AFP reports. “A handful may not come,” he said. A recent delegation from the country to Gitmo met with just... More »

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Guantanamo Bay • detainees • Uighurs • Chinese Muslims • President Obama • Palau • Johnson Toribiong

 Bush Knocks 
 Obama Policies 

Says private sector is solution to economic problems

Jun 18, 09 12:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - George W. Bush is apparently done holding his tongue. He criticized several of President Obama's major policy issues in a speech yesterday, defending his administration on interrogation, assailing nationalized health care, and saying the private sector, not the government, was key to fixing the economy, the Washington Times reports. “... More »

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Guantanamo Bay • recession • health care reform • private sector • economy • George W. Bush • President Obama

 Italy to Take 3 Gitmo Detainees 

Obama, Berlusconi discuss range of issues

Jun 16, 09 8:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Silvio Berlusconi, seeking to restore some shine to his tattered international image, yesterday agreed to take three detainees from Guantanamo Bay. The Italian PM praised President Obama for his "deep knowledge" after a 2-hour-plus meeting at the White House, the AP reports. The leaders discussed topics ranging from... More »

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White House • Italy • Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • Silvio Berlusconi • detainees • Obama administration • President Obama

 Gitmo Prisoners: 
 We Lied to CIA 
 to Stop Torture 

Khalid Mohammed 'made up stories' on bin Laden's whereabouts after torture

Jun 16, 09 1:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Guantanamo prisoners fabricated information to give CIA interrogators after being physically and mentally abused, they told a 2007 military tribunal in transcripts released yesterday under the Freedom of Information act. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and one of the prisoners who was repeatedly waterboarded, said he... More »

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War on Terror • CIA • ACLU • Guantanamo Bay • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • interrogation techniques • Abu Zubaydah • harsh interrogation

(Newser) - The Chinese Muslims freed from Guantanamo last week had never heard of al-Qaeda before arriving in Cuba, one of them tells the Royal Gazette of Bermuda. "From what we have heard about them, they are an extremely radical group, with totally different ideals from ours," said Salahidin Abdulahad,... More »

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China • Muslims • Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • Uighurs • Bermuda • Chinese Muslims • Abdulla Abdulqadir • Salahidin Abdulahad

Obama's Cell Phone Plea Helps Clear War Funds

Last-minute tensions healed; measure set to pass next week

Jun 12, 09 7:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Congressional leaders settled on a $106 billion spending bill for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan last night, but it took a last-minute intervention by President Obama via Rahm Emanuel's cell phone. When talks got bogged down over the release of detainee photos, Emanuel rushed to the Capitol and had... More »

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Congress • White House • Guantanamo Bay • auto industry • Guantanamo prisoners • spending bill • flu • defense spending • Iraq war spending • torture photos

 Obama Gives Up On
 Resettling Detainees in US

Plans abandoned after Uighur deals, congressional opposition

Jun 12, 09 6:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - The administration has largely abandoned plans to allow Guantanano detainees cleared for release to settle in the US, the Washington Post reports. Plans to allow Uighur detainees who said their only enemy was the Chinese government to live in the US met firm opposition from Congress. Four Uighurs were sent... More »

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Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • Uighurs • President Obama

Britain Bashes Bermuda for Taking Gitmo Inmates

Overseas territory told it's getting too big for its britches with resettlement deal

Jun 12, 09 4:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Britain has berated its oldest remaining colony for taking in former Guantanamo detainees without asking London's permission first, the BBC reports. American officials say they dealt directly with Bermuda on the issue, through its British-appointed governor, as they arranged to release four Chinese Muslim Uighurs to Bermuda. More »

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(Newser) - The youngest detainee at Guantanamo Bay has been freed to his native Chad, Reuters reports. Mohammed El Gharani was seized in Pakistan in 2001 at 14, and accused variously of being an al-Qaeda operative, messenger, and combatant. Five months ago a judge found the evidence against him insufficient. “That... More »

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Afghanistan • Chad • Pakistan • US military • Guantanamo Bay • detainee • al-Qaeda • Reprieve • Mohammed El Gharani

4 Chinese Gitmo Detainees Freed to Bermuda

Beijing opposes sending other Muslim inmates to Palau

Jun 11, 09 8:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Four Chinese Muslims inmates from Guantanamo have been released in Bermuda in the first successful US resettlement of Uighurs since 2006, the AP reports. The disposition of 13 others is unclear, according to the Miami Herald, but Palau has offered to accept them, a move China opposes. Beijing has called... More »

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China • Guantanamo Bay • detainees • Uighurs • Bermuda • Chinese Muslims • Palau • Johnson Toribiong

 Palau to Take Gitmo's 
 Chinese Detainees 

Island nation's move resolves key camp-closing concern

Jun 10, 09 8:41 AM CDT
(AP) - Palau agreed to accept 17 Chinese Muslims who have languished in legal limbo at Guantanamo Bay, indicating a resolution to one of the thorniest issues facing the Obama administration's decision to close the prison camp. The announcement, which would clear the last of the Uighurs from the camp, was a... More »

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China • Guantanamo Bay • Uighurs • Obama administration • Chinese Muslims • President Obama • Palau • Johnson Toribiong

updated

First Gitmo Detainee to Face Trial Pleads
Not Guilty

Denies role in 1998 embassy bombings

Jun 9, 09 3:41 PM CDT
(AP) - The first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be brought to the US for trial has pleaded not guilty in two embassy bombings. Ahmed Ghailani entered the plea today in federal court in Manhattan. Ghailani is charged with participating in the bombing of embassies in Africa in August 1998, attacks that killed... More »

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terrorism • Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • Obama administration • Gitmo • President Obama • Ahmed Ghailani • embassy bombings

(Newser) - The US wants to resettle Uighur detainees held at Guantanamo Bay on the Pacific island nation of Palau, the AP reports. Palau, whose eight main islands lie 500 miles east of the Philippines, has strong ties to the US and depends on it for aid and protection. Daniel Fried, the... More »

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South Pacific • Guantanamo Bay • detainees • Uighurs • Obama administration • Daniel Fried • Palau

 First Gitmo Detainee 
 Arrives in US for Trial 

Ahmed Ghailani to be tried for bombing US embassies

Jun 9, 09 6:06 AM CDT
(AP) - The first Guantanamo Bay detainee has landed on US soil, landing in New York to face trial on charges of bombing US embassies, the Justice Department said today. Ahmed Ghailani arrived in the early morning, to be held in law enforcement custody until his trial in federal court in lower... More »

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Kenya • Department of Justice • terrorism • Tanzania • Lower Manhattan • trial • Guantanamo Bay • bombing • court • US Embassy • terror trial • Eric Holder • Ahmed Ghailani

Interview

 Gitmo Detainee: I Was Tortured 


Jun 8, 09 11:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - In 2002, Lakhdar Boumediene was a relief worker who cared for orphans. “I’m a normal man,” he says. So when the US shackled him and flew him to Guantanamo Bay, he thought he’d be freed soon. “They have CIA, FBI. Maybe one week, two weeks,... More »

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torture • Guantanamo Bay • Boumediene v. Bush • Lakhdar Boumediene

(Newser) - The collective freak-out over closing Guantanamo proves that Americans do care about prisons and prisoners, but Gitmo “is a mere speck in the eye of America’s larger prison program,” writes Dahlia Lithwick in Newsweek. That’s why Sen. Jim Webb of the “lock ‘em... More »

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prison • Guantanamo Bay • mental illness • prison system • James Webb • inmates • prison population

(AP) - Barack Obama and his French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, stood together today on thwarting Iran's nuclear ambitions and furthering a Mideast peace that provides for separate Israeli and Palestinian states. "We want peace. We want dialogue. We want to help them develop. But we do not want military nuclear weapons... More »

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Iran • nuclear proliferation • Russia • Barack Obama • Nicolas Sarkozy • France • Guantanamo Bay • D-Day • Normandy

(Newser) - The 17 Uighurs being held at Guantanamo issued a challenge to the Supreme Court today in petitioning for their release, the Miami Herald reports. "The historic role of the Judicial Branch is to demand the release of prisoners precisely when the political branches find release inconvenient," their... More »

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China • terrorism • Guantanamo Bay • US Supreme Court • detainees • Uighurs • Chinese Muslims

(Newser) - Governors are more than a little reluctant to house Guantanamo Bay detainees in their state prisons, the Washington Times reports. The paper asked a variety of governors’ offices if they’d be willing to take the prisoners, including those from states whose congressmen support the idea of shutting Gitmo.... More »

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Vermont • Michigan • Guantanamo Bay • federal prison • governor

(Newser) - Angela Merkel got behind Barack Obama’s Middle East peace push today, calling his Cairo speech the “ideal basis” for renewed efforts. Obama called for “difficult compromises,” adding, “The United States cannot force peace upon the parties.” The two leaders met and spoke at a... More »

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Barack Obama • Middle East • Angela Merkel • Germany • Guantanamo Bay • Israel and Palestinians • East Germany • Dresden

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