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Remember How Obama Promised to Close Guantanamo Bay?

(Sept. 24) -- What should be done about Gitmo? In a long review of three publications on the subject for The New York Review of Books, David Cole ponders this continually vexing question. Allegedly conceived, Cole writes, as a "hole into which suspects would for all practical purposes disappear, never to be heard from...

Al-Qosi, Osama bin Laden's Cook, Convicted at Guantanamo

Osama bin Laden's onetime cook has been convicted of conspiring with al-Qaida and providing material support to a terrorist organization. Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al-Qosi, a 50-year-old Sudanese man, today pleaded guilty to the charges against him at the Guantanamo military commission. Specifically, he was accused of...

Rules Are Strict for Journalists Covering Gitmo

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL STATION, Cuba (July 1) -- The Pentagon last month barred four reporters from Guantanamo Bay for revealing the name of a witness against the orders of the military judge. The incident sparked renewed attention to the balance between security and transparency at a place that houses what U.S. officials...

Ruling: Bagram Detainees Cannot Use US Courts

WASHINGTON (May 21) -- Detainees at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan cannot use U.S. courts to challenge their imprisonment the way detainees in Guantanamo Bay have, a federal appeals court ruled today. The United States is holding the detainees at the military prison on Afghan territory through a cooperative arrangement...

Critics Call 'Gitmo North' Dangerous

(Dec. 16) -- The men locked up at Guantanamo Bay don't have superpowers. They can't melt prison bars or neutralize guards with Jedi mind tricks. But opponents of the White House's decision to move about 100 of the accused terrorists to a prison in Illinois make the move sound terrifying. "Our state and the Chicago...

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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.

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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.