How To Use Guantanamo In A Sentence
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America's most senior general was 'hoodwinked' by top Bush administration officials determined to push through aggressive interrogation techniques of terror suspects held at Guantánamo Bay, leading to the US military abandoning its age-old ban on the cruel and inhumane treatment of prisoners, the Guardian reveals today.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Top Bush aides pushed for Guantanamo torture
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Guantanamo Bay is against every law from the human rights charta, but noone is doing anything against it, or better, can do anything against it, because America "the great world police" is saying so.
Thinking About America
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Both essays question-beggingly describe the 375 detainees still being held at Guantanamo as “enemy combatants.”
It’s a Wonder It’s Not Michelin-Rated
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PS I believe the 37% that still supports Bushboy need some electrotherapy,the kind they use in Guantanamo .
Think Progress » Cheney: ‘General Overall Situation’ In Iraq Is Going ‘Remarkably Well’
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Some counter-terrorism experts have raised questions about the significance of the Pentagon's figures, noting that the number of so-called "recidivist" detainees represents only a small portion, about 12 percent, of the approximately 520 detainees who have been released from Guantanamo since the detention facility was opened in January 2002.
Safe To Release?
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Hey, President Obama has found a way to quickly close Guantanamo Bay. He's going to turn it into a Pontiac dealership.
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As for his nonending, Wood rides to the rescue with a brilliant Guantanamo Bay-inspired bit that brings new meaning to "Dancing in the Dark.
Undefined
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The two Greens Senators wore a sprig of wattle over a postcard picture of the two Australian citizens interned in Guantanamo Bay.
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Also, Gates is "heartened" in terms of Afghanistan, where the Bush administration already returned around 500 detainees from Guantanamo to Afghan government custody — which has put about 200 on trial, with a "conviction rate about 80 percent.
Away From The Numbers | ATTACKERMAN
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WASHINGTON - Barack Obama moved emphatically Wednesday to erase the legacy of the past eight years by calling a bevy of Mideast leaders, circulating a not-yet-released executive order to close the Guantanamo prison and deliberately diminishing the powers of his own presidency.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross documented what it called credible information about U.S. personnel disrespecting or mishandling Korans at the Guantanamo detention facility and pointed it out to the Pentagon in confidential reports during 2002 and early 2003, an ICRC spokesman said Wednesday.
David Corn: Has Pentagon Spokesman Been Caught in a Koran-related Fib?
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Rear Admiral Harry Harris, Commander, Joint Task Force Guantanamo what drives human beings to take their own lives, whether it be through suicide bombing or just plain suicide, is desperation, fueled by a belief that nothing less could possibly make a difference …
Think Progress » ThinkProgress is leaving Las Vegas.
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Do you really think that simply being in possession of this watch is the reason they are at Guantanamo?
President Obama's Watch - Anil Dash
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Do you agree with Barack Obama's decision to close the dentition (sic) center in Guantanamo Bay and move some of the world's most dangerous terrorists to the United States?
GOP 'survey' slams Obama
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Dan Rather, the Category 5 newsman, is on a collision course with Guantánamo Bay.
Dan Rather Does Guantánamo
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He was captured in Afghanistan and arrived at Guantanamo Bay in January 2002 as a slight, baby-faced 26-year-old.
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Some counter-terrorism experts, the magazine said, have raised questions about the significance of the Pentagon's figures, noting that the number of so-called "recidivist" detainees represents only a small portion, about 12 per cent, of the approximately 520 detainees who have been released from Guantanamo since the detention facility was opened in January 2002.
Daily News & Analysis
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This Socialist government would rather pay to keep tens of thousands of illegal immigrants and eastern European criminals and gypsies and the dregs from Guantanamo but think the Gurkhas are a drain on the Country.
"ROGUE GUNNER"
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Another setback is the slow pace of the disclosure of government documentation in civil proceedings brought by six former Guantánamo inmates who are suing the government for its alleged role in their rendition and torture.
MPs set out list of torture inquiry demands in letter to judge
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Mum : No wonder the officials at Guantanamo Bay play them when they question the prisoner.
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A U.S. official involved in overseeing the Guantanamo transfers said U.S. security officials receive regular reports from countries hosting transferred detainees.
Republicans Probe Gitmo Transfers to Europe
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On Obama's Guantanamo summersault, the BBC News website reveals exactly how Beeboids are coping with the story, & rationalising it so as to forgive their messiah.
OPEN THREAD
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The four executive orders Obama signed on Thursday, the second day of his presidency, begin the process of closing the Guantanamo Bay prison, require the CIA to comply with the Army Field Manual on Interrogations, close the CIA secret prisons known as "black sites" and allow International Committee of the Red Cross access to ensure that all U. S.-held detainees are being held in compliance with the Geneva Conventions.
JTA - Recent News
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What's driving the British reaction against Guantanamo Bay?
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Now, a history lesson's useful enough if you're unfamiliar with the toxic atmosphere in Washington DC as the civil war ended, or if you go along with the story's foreshadowing of contemporary issues like military tribunals at Guantánamo Bay and the poisoned American polity of then and now, but as drama it entirely lacks a pulse or a soul or any of the qualities that we commonly associate with the term "balls".
The Conspirator proves that Robert Redford should stick to Sundance
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When–and if–the truths about the detainees at Guantanamo Bay will be revealed in the way they should be, or Congress will step up and shoulder some of the blame, or the new Obama administration will have the courage to follow through substantially on its campaign promises with respect to GITMO, torture and the like, remains indeed to beseen.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Andrew McCarthy Sticks to His Guns (And He May Be Pointing Them at You Next)
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It looks as though the food given the detainees at Guantanamo is wholesome, nutritious and appealing.
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A Navy reservist from the Philadelphia area, Lenny had a background in the computer industry and had done a previous tour at Guantánamo Bay’s Camp X‑Ray.
The Ploy
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Den amerikanske dommer Susan J. Crawford, der har til opgave at vurdere, om Guantanamo-fanger kan retsforfølges, har opgivet at rejse sag mod en saudi-arabisk statsborger, fordi vedkommende blev udsat for ødelæggende tortur, skriver
Blogbot - forsiden
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One of the men we interviewed was introduced to us as the "jokester" of Guantanamo.
Peter Jan Honigsberg: Dignified, but Broken
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OpEdNews - Quicklink: Bagram base 'another Gunatanamo', says ACLU
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Abbas has been working with them in Guantanamo since 2002, initially contracted by the Departmentof Defense.
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And we already know that if the judicial system rules that the wiretaping program as implemented is illegal, the Reich-Wing will complain about “activist judges” trying to re-write the law (as they complained following the Guantanamo ruling by the Supreme Court).
Think Progress » VIDEO: Bush Personally Blocked DOJ Investigation Of Wiretapping Program
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One of the leaders of al Qaeda in Yemen is a Guantanamo releasee.
CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2009
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The wingdings only use protection of rule of law when it suits their purposes. (see guantanamo, habeas corpus, birthright citizenship etc.)
GOP Rep Submits Bill To Require Birth Certificates From Prez Candidates
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That may change, but for now surely we are witnessing the wages of eight years of FISA, the Patriot Act, overseas renditions, Guantanamo, tens of thousands of Islamists 'attrited' in Iraq (cf. the much ridiculed 'flypaper trap' theory), the routing of the Taliban from Afghanistan, Predator attacks in Pakistan, and quiet European intelligence work that would be classified as "shredding the Constitution" if it were done here in the US.
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U.S. government officials told him that al Qaeda and its affiliates "griped" about Guantanamo in only 58 out of hundreds of public statements and interviews between 2003 and 2009.
Gitmo Is Not a Recruiting Tool for Terrorists
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The legislation's supporters in Congress say it simply codifies existing practice, such as the indefinite detention of alleged terrorists at Guantánamo Bay.
Americans face Guantánamo detention after Obama backdown
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When – and if – the truths about the detainees at Guantanamo Bay will be revealed in the way they should be, or Congress will step up and shoulder some of the blame, or the new Obama administration will have the courage to follow through substantially on its campaign promises with respect to GITMO, torture and the like, remains indeed to beseen.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Andrew McCarthy Sticks to His Guns (And He May Be Pointing Them at You Next)
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According to the US Department of Defense, approximately 360 men remain detained in Guantánamo held without charge.
Guantanamo Bay
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Guantánamo Bay, CIA rendition flights and the Couso case - as "decontextualised" and
The Guardian World News
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The United States was holding hundreds of alleged terrorists in a detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, some of them in solitary confinement and many designated as “illegal enemy combatants,” a term meant to exempt them from the rights and protections that were supposed to be accorded to prisoners of war.
The Great Experiment
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The 'Black Shirts' of Guantanamo routinely terrorize prisoners, breaking bones, gouging eyes, squeezing testicles, and 'dousing' them with chemicals.
WHITE NOISE INSANITY
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Some secret factory in Guantanamo where they're making the inmates lick their leady hands 600 times a day and then testing serum lead levels after?
Archive 2006-07-01
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Based on the detainee's folder, the knowledgeability brief and subsequent interrogations by JTF Guantánamo, the detainee is of high intelligence value to the United States.
Guantánamo Bay files: Children and senile old men among detainees
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Kemm fil-kaz ta 'Guantanamo u kif ukoll fuq din ta' l-immigrazzjoni ħadd minnhom ma vvota kontra l-interess ta 'pajjiżna ...
Timesofmalta.com
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The amendment prohibited funds to be used to so-called czars on health care, climate change, global warming, green jobs, automobiles, Guantanamo Bay Closure, Pay and Fairness Doctrine.
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However, there is evidence of the shameful goings on at Guantanamo Bay, where cameras have shown us cages not fit for animals, shackles, gags, hoods and blindfolds.
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Five years ago this week, the first plane load of detainees arrived at the soon-to-be infamous Guantanamo Bay Detention Center.
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So whether it's done in Guantanamo or somewhere else, it needs to be done and it should be under the purview of the Pentagon with oversight from outside.
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As President Barack Obama declared with a fanfare his intention to close the controversial Guantanamo Bay terrorist detention camp last week, he made no mention of another growing US-run prison – with more than twice as many inmates and an even murkier legal status.
A New Lawfare Front
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In devastating form this year, the 21-year-old Cuban from the music-loving province of Guantanamo snatched Liu's world record with a run of 12.87 seconds in June and looks in top form in Beijing.
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In devastating form this year, the 21-year-old Cuban from the music-loving province of Guantanamo snatched Liu's world record with a run of 12.87 seconds in June and looks in top form in Beijing.
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While uncharged suspects going slowly mad in Guantanamo or Belmarsh are not to be compared to Private England's trophy heap of naked men, human rights are not always an obsession in Britain or the United States.
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Guantánamo Bay prison and torture "legitimized" cannot stand if humane treatment of prisoners is to matter.
Speaker Pelosi Proclaims Possible Impeachment
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Mr. Kennedy will probably get to cast the deciding vote in a host of so-called litmus-test cases this fall, and most prominent among them could be the court's revisiting of detainee rights at Guantanamo Bay.
All Eyes Are Again
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Additionally, Article III of the 1934 treaty provides that the Republic of Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "for coaling and naval stations.
Marjorie Cohn: Close the Guantánamo Gulag
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It's probably the same feeling that people in Guantánamo Bay have, having had soldiers barking at them in English for two years.
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In a Senate speech Tuesday, Durbin raked Bush administration officials over the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo.
06/17/2005
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A terrorist whose deadly plans should be prevented belongs in Guantánamo, the empty zone exempted from the rule of law; a fundamentalist ideologist should be silenced because he spreads hatred.
Liberal multiculturalism masks an old barbarism with a human face
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Gibbs says Guantanamo's continued existence existence is helping terrist terror groups recruit new members.
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In Khartoum Friday, al-Haj told al-Jazeera conditions at Guantanamo are "bad and getting worse, " and he accused U.S. officials there of preventing the practice of Islam.
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LOU DOBBS, HOST: Tonight the Obama administration abandons the term enemy combatants for terror suspects held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
CNN Transcript Mar 13, 2009
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Based on information supplied in autobiographical and press sources, the book matches events in Afghanistan, Guantánamo, Iraq, and various secret places of detention with provisions in the Geneva Conventions and other international agreements on war crimes.
Matthew Yglesias » The Embrace
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Frustrated with what she describes as fruitless and repetitive interviews, Ms. Abbas resigned from her Guantanamo post in 2002, and returned to another sales job in California.
The Go-Between: Interpreting Life in Bermuda for Freed Gitmo Prisoners
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As Bermudians continue to react - unfavourably for the most part - to their government's acceptance of former Guantanamo Bay detainees as full citizens of the tiny island, bloggers comment on yesterday's protest and what the public outcry could mean for the nation's Premier.
Global Voices in English » Bermuda: Guantanamo Protest
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As one example of a publicly-available downvote bot, this script automatically downvotes any stories on 9/11, Gaza, torture, Guantanamo and a host of other topics, downvotes certain posters, and engages in other forms of cyber warfare.
Downvote Bots Fight Propaganda War
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What is expected here at 11: 00 is an announcement that charges of murder, conspiracy to commit murder, attacks on civilians, and a request for the death penalty against six men are being referred to the so-called convening authority, the judge in charge of the legal efforts at Guantanamo Bay.
CNN Transcript Feb 11, 2008
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Terrorists who once occupied Afghanistan now occupy cells at Guantanamo Bay.
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The Medicis regained power in 1512 with the help of Spanish troops, and Machiavelli was deposed from his public office, imprisoned and tortured with the strappado (a technique recently revived in Guantanamo).
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Guantanamo is a katorga but our country can still be saved from the fullblown gulag though Cheney like some evil Ded Moroz makes his lists and watches.
Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Ready When You Are
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Under such a rule, even detentions at a military base in Iraq, Afghanistan or South Korea - as well as Guantanamo - would be reviewable in U.S. courts.
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This week's announcement – a list of procedures with no attempt to address the fundamental moral, legal and philosophical dilemma that underlies Guantánamo as much now as on the day it opened – is merely bureaucratese for the fact that Guantánamo, and all that it represents, is here to stay.
Guantánamo: no closure for Obama | Karen Greenberg
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How anyone who calls themselves a Christian can support Guantánamo, or support the architects of this obscene gulag is beyond me.
Land of the Free, Home of the Brave . . . NOT! | Living the Liminal
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Officials pointed to what they described as tangible signs of their progress on Guantanamo, saying 11 detainees have been resettled or repatriated, one has been moved to New York for criminal trial, and another detained in the U.S. as an "enemy combatant" has pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges.
U.S. Expected to Miss Deadline on Detainee Policy
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Frida Berrigan: Losing the Moral High Ground
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Whatever it is, it's surely better than the * years* that the US and the UK hold people for in places like Guantanamo and the black holes of Iraq and Afghanistan so by all means continue throwing stones, Mr. Glasshouse inhabiter.
The Guardian World News
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You can hobble your way right down to Guantanamo Bay with the rest of the vermin.
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Two weeks ago, another Reuters report indicated that “nearly 30 percent of the Guantanamo detainees have been cleared to leave the prison but remain jailed because the U.S. government has been unable to arrange for their return to their home countries,” according to the Pentagon.
Balkinization
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Roberts obtained his justiceship by (i) unethically sitting on, and casting the deciding vote for the Executive on, a court of appeals case from Guantanamo involving the same kind of question at issue in the recent case, while (ii) meeting with Dick Cheney, David Addington, et.al. to assure them of his intellectual fealty to the ideas they wished to prevail.
Evil Judges And Dumb Politicians
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Let's start an effort to bring Guantanamo north and be the host for these long-term internees, what say?
Winter 2005: New Visions for Downtown New Albany
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Tomorrow, Pete Sessions and his colleagues should find themselves bound and goggled in the belly of a C-130 and taken to the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, where they will enjoy an hour of exercise a week.
Wild Like The Taliban | ATTACKERMAN
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OpEdNews - Quicklink: Guantanamo trial may proceed without defendant | Reuters
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The recent foiling of a terrorist plot to attack a New York City synagogue has caused some to question the wiseness of Obama's decision to close the Guantanamo prisons and bring its detainees to the United States.
Allison Kilkenny: Missing Weapons: The Nation's Great Threat
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That was indeed the conclusion of your appointee to determine the legal status of Guantánamo detainees, Susan Crawford, who simply stated in dismissing all charges against Qahtani: “His treatment met the legal definition of torture.”
Dear President Bush,
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And all year long, theObama DOJ fought (unsuccessfully) to keep encaged at Guantanamo a man whom Bush officials had tortured while knowing he was innocent.
A historian's account of Democrats and Bush-era war crimes
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Now the implications are enormous. Uh, think of Guantanamo Bay and the question of interrogating terrorists.
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That's why they should be tortured via rendition to Guantánamo instanter.
Lionel: Jumbo Jets Tax Jumbo Passengers
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OpEdNews - Quicklink: Top Bush aides pushed for Guantanamo torture
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Den amerikanske dommer Susan J. Crawford, der har til opgave at vurdere, om Guantanamo-fanger kan retsforfølges, har opgivet at rejse sag mod en saudi-arabisk statsborger, fordi vedkommende blev udsat for ødelæggende tortur, skriver
Blogbot - forsiden
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Thus we have illegal wiretapping, torture, secret “black site” prisons scatted all over the world, extraordinary rendition, Guantanamo, Abu Grabe, the list goes on and on.
Back to the Future - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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What the article actually says is this: some detainees would rather remain at Guantanamo than face possible torture or death athome
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Liz Cheney
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It's not going to be my fault when some poor, watermarked bastard gets dragged off to Guantanamo Bay.
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I visited Guantanamo and Camp Delta last summer, and the setting just knocked me over with all its exotic and bizarre touches, as well as with its overwhelming sense of claustrophobia and besiegement.
A Conversation with Dan Fesperman about The Prisoner of Guantanamo
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They are Britain's survivors of Guantánamo, the detention centre that has been called the "gulag of our times".
Britain's Guantánamo survivors are suffering a toxic legacy
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton named a senior U.S. diplomat Thursday to help expedite President Obama's order to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp within a year.
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Germany's Interior Minister agreed to consider accepting former inmates from Guantanamo Bay -- a shift that could help the U.S. shut down the detention center for terrorism suspects -- as a Spanish judge said he was opening a criminal probe into inmates 'allegations they were tortured by U.S. officials.
Germany Considers Taking Guantanamo Detainees
