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Judge Orders Hearing
on Destroyed CIA Tapes

Federal court will not abide by DoJ's wishes

Dec 18, 07 1:25 PM CST
(Newser) - A federal judge scheduled a hearing today to address whether the CIA's destruction of interrogation videotapes violated a court order, the Washington Post reports. The order—issued with no comment—is a blow to the Justice Department, which has launched a probe with the CIA and contends the federal courts... More »

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CIA • Department of Justice • Guantanamo Bay • detainee • interrogations • District Judge Henry Kennedy

Bush Reiterates: US Doesn’t 'Torture People'

President denies breaking law in wake of document revelations

Oct 5, 07 3:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Faced with newly disclosed Justice Department memos, President Bush once again denied the US tortures detainees, saying today that interrogation techniques save American lives, comply with “international obligations” and are fully disclosed to “appropriate members” of Congress. He said of detainees, “you bet we are going to... More »

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torture • Department of Justice • Senate • detainee • head slapping • Jay Rockefeller • simulated drowning • George W. Bush

US Freeing
Iraqi Detainees
for Ramadan

50-80 Sunnis and Shiites will be released each day of holy month

Sep 13, 07 3:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - As Ramadan began, the US military today began freeing some of its 23,000 Iraqi detainees—between 50 and 80 will be released each day of Islam's holy month, Reuters reports. Military brass stress that Sunnis and Shiites alike will be considered for release. "This will be a completely... More »

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Iraq • Sunni • Shiite • United States • detainee • Tariq al Hashemi • Ramadan

Abuse Exposed at Guantanamo

Newly released transcripts reveal interrogators denying prisoners medicine

Sep 11, 07 8:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Newly obtained reports of hostility and friction at Guantanamo Bay have been released today by the AP. These transcripts of hearings, held last year, tell of interrogators denying detainees medicine and angry inmates tossing feces at guards. One Yemeni prisoner warned that more captives would commit suicide if guards didn’... More »

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Guantanamo Bay • abuse • prisoners • detainee • interrogation • prayer

Gitmo Gears up for Terror Trials

US builds new courtroom complex at base

Sep 6, 07 4:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - A high-security mobile courtroom complex is under construction at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base as officials prepare to  try 9/11 suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other high profile al-Qaeda figures. Military tribunals will try as many as 80 detainees at the complex, three at a time, Reuters reports. Critics complain... More »

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David Hicks • military tribunal • Guantanamo Bay • detainee • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • commissions

Jury Splits on Abu Ghraib Verdict

Colonel acquitted of abuse charges, convicted for talking about investigation

Aug 28, 07 6:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - A military jury today acquitted Army Lt. Col. Steven Jordan, the only officer charged in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, of three charges relating to widespread prisoner abuse that led to global denunciations of US involvement in Iraq. Jordan was found guilty of one count of “willfully disobeying” a... More »

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Abu Ghraib • US military • detainee • Steven Jordan • acquittal • Iraq war

Iraq Detainees Swell by 50%

Most are Sunni, and many say they're motivated by lack of jobs, not jihadism

Aug 25, 07 7:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Since the January troop surge the number of detainees held by the American military in Iraq has increased by 50%, reports the New York Times. The overwhelming majority of those in custody, nearly 85%, are Sunni. And while Jihadism drives some Iraqi insurgents to plant roadside bombs, for many there... More »

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Iraq • Sunni • insurgents • troop surge • jihad • detainee

Shrinks Fault CIA Torture Tactics

Professional group to condemn interrogation techniques

Aug 15, 07 9:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - The American Psychological Association, long chummy with the CIA, is set to condemn tactics the spy agency has been using to interrogate terror detainees, writes Salon. Members have in the past worked with the CIA to design techniques: now the group wants to distance itself by formally opposing a long... More »

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CIA • torture • abuse • psychology • detainee • interrogation • sleep deprivation • waterboarding • torture list

Padilla Terror Trial Targets Islam: Lawyer

Defense charges prosecutors play on jurors' post-9-11 fears

Aug 14, 07 5:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - A lawyer for one of Jose Padilla's co-defendants accused prosecutors of turning the terror suspects' trial into a "US versus Islam" crusade to conceal a lack of evidence. Padilla, a US citizen, and two other men face charges of conspiring to murder and injure people in Afghanistan and Eastern... More »

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War on Terror • Islam • Jose Padilla • terror plots • counterterrorism • detainee • terrorist • dirty bomber • al-Qaeda

Brit Resident to Be Released
From Gitmo

Four others the UK wants freed are 'still significant threat,' says US

Aug 10, 07 5:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - One of five British residents has been cleared for release from Guantanamo, the US announced, following demands from authorities in London that all the prisoners be freed. The man, whose name and nationality were not disclosed, won't be returned to his homeland because of concerns he would be mistreated there,... More »

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military tribunal • Gordon Brown • Guantanamo Bay • prisoners • detainee • Britain • Guantanamo prisoners

Cleared Terror Suspect to Leave Australia

Going home to India; but his work visa won't be restored

Jul 28, 07 12:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - An Indian doctor cleared of involvement in the failed UK bomb attacks is flying home to India to be with his family, but his Australian work visa won't be restored, the immigration minister announced today. Lawyers for Mohamed Haneef are demanding that his name be cleared completely and will mount... More »

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Australia • India • Glasgow Airport • British terror attacks • visa • Mohamed Haneef • prisoners • detainee

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

CIA Helped Devise Torture Tactics

Agency believed to have teamed up with  Pentagon

Jun 21, 07 6:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - The CIA apparently colluded with the US military to develop torture techniques for interrogating terrorist suspects, Salon reports. The program was based on methods originally designed to teach American special forces how to withstand abuse if captured. While the military's role in this "reverse engineering" had been previously exposed,... More »

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CIA • Pentagon • torture • Abu Ghraib • prison • POW • US military • detainee • terrorist • Geneva Convention

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

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

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

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

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