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How Can You Tell Someone Is al-Qaida? Look at His Watch

It's a simple, water-resistant digital watch that retails for about $11. But beware: It could sell you out as al-Qaida. A new batch of WikiLeaks files from Guantanamo Bay reveals a secret checklist U.S. investigators used to figure out whether detainees were really al-Qaida members. Among the criteria was the kind of...

Leaked Files Shed Light on Gitmo Detainees

WASHINGTON -- Secret documents about detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison reveal new information about some of the men that the United States believes to be terrorists, according to reports about the files released by several American and European newspapers. The U.S. government criticized the publication as...

Guantanamo Bay Military Trials to Resume: What Do the Pundits Think?

It was a top priority in his 2008 presidential campaign, but it appears that Barack Obama won't be closing Gitmo anytime soon. The White House announced on Monday that military trials will resume at the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, where a new executive order signed by the president now creates a system in...

Opinion: Obama's Gitmo Flip Flop is a Win-Win

Though no one would have guessed it during his inauguration week over two years ago -- when President Barack Obama boldly ordered the closure of Guantanamo's detention facilities and the immediate suspension of military commissions -- he has just reversed course and lifted the ban on military trials for detainees. And as...

Obama Restarts Military Trials at Guantanamo

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama reversed course Monday and ordered a resumption of military trials for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, making his once ironclad promise to close the isolated prison look even more distant. Guantanamo has been a major political and national security headache for the president...

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Marco Rubio Scheduled To Visit Guantanamo Bay

Sen. Marco Rubio, whose parents emigrated from Cuba in the 1950s, will spend the day at Guantanamo Bay on Tuesday, a visit that will help bolster his national security and foreign policy credentials.

Guantanamo Bay News From the Web

05/29/12 Rubio visits Guantanamo Bay Source: The Oregon Herald Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, whose parents left Cuba in 1956, is spending Tuesday at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Yahoo News has learned.
05/29/12 NYTIMES ON OBAMA: "... a paradoxical leader who... Source: The Astute Blogger Mr. Obama is the liberal law professor who campaigned against the Iraq war and torture, and then insisted on approving every new name on an expanding "kill list," poring over terrorist suspects' biographies on what one official calls the macabre "baseball cards" of an unconventional war.
05/22/12 New rendition data project launches online Source: YubaNet.com - Nevada City CA A new project which brings together all the available data on hundreds of victims of rendition, torture and secret detention launches online today.
05/14/12 Husband of 9/11 victim visited Guantanamo Bay to try... Source: Daily Mail - London - UK The husband of a woman who was killed when her plane smashed into the World Trade Centre on 9/11 visited Guantanamo Bay to try and save the lives of the Al-Qaeda terrorists behind the attack.
05/12/12 San Diego based Coast Guard anti-terrorism unit... Source: U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) A San Diego-based U.S. Coast Guard anti-terrorism team will return home on Mother's Day tomorrow from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after a six-month deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Background on Guantanamo Bay

The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a controversial detainment and interrogation facility of the United States located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba.

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