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Draft Memo Reveals Plans to Move Gitmo Detainees to Thomson, Ill.

By | 12.14.09 | 8:55 am

Conservative bloggers were abuzz over the weekend over a leaked memo that appeared to show President Obama has decided to send all Guantanamo Bay detainees to the Thomson Correctional Center in Northwest Illinois “as expeditiously as possible.”

In fact, it turned out that the memo was a draft More…

Gitmo Detainee Is Returned to Kuwait

By | 12.09.09 | 5:57 pm

The United States today released Fouad Mahmoud Al Rabiah to his native Kuwait after holding him for nearly eight years at Guantanamo Bay.

According to the Department of Justice, Al Rabiah had been cleared for transfer by the government’s Guantanamo Review Task Force. On Sept. 17, More…

Four Gitmo Detainees Transferred to Europe

By | 12.01.09 | 3:46 pm

The Department of Justice announced today that four more detainees from Guantanamo Bay have been transferred: one to Hungary, one to France, and two to Italy.

Former Gitmo Detainees Acquitted in Algeria

By | 11.23.09 | 1:41 pm

Two Algerians held for seven years without charge or trial at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay l have been acquitted after after a trial back home in Algeria, their defense lawyer said yesterday.

Faghoul Abdelli and Mohamed Terari were arrested in Afghanistan by Pakistani police following More…

Another Gitmo Detainee Wins in Federal Court; Score Is Detainees 31, United States 8

By | 11.20.09 | 4:48 pm

Farhi Saeed bin Mohammed, an Algerian national who was captured in Pakistan and turned over to the U.S. military after fleeing from Afghanistan, was ordered released from the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay by a U.S. District Court judge yesterday, according to the human rights group More…

[Updated] Gitmo Prisoner’s Death: Suicide or Murder?

By | 11.20.09 | 4:19 pm

Jeffrey Kaye at Truthout has a good piece today on the suicide — or murder? — of Yemeni Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh al Hanashi in June. It’s a powerful reminder of why human rights advocates, as well as U.S. military leaders, think it’s important to close that More…

What’s the Point of Those Military Commissions Again?

By | 11.14.09 | 12:21 pm

Yesterday’s announcement that the Obama administration will try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other 9/11 suspects in federal court has been hailed as everything from “an important step forward for justice” by Human Rights Watch to “a step backwards for the security of our country [that] puts Americans More…

Amherst, Mass., Agrees to Take Gitmo Detainees

By | 11.05.09 | 2:20 pm

An Amherst Special Town Meeting approved a resolution last night welcoming one or two cleared Guantanamo Bay detainees to Amherst, Mass. — once Congress agrees to lift the latest bans on their transfer. The town of 30,000 residents says it’s the first municipality in the nation to officially More…

Prominent Bipartisan Group Supports Trial of GTMO Detainees in Federal Court

By | 11.05.09 | 11:02 am

A bipartisan group of more than 120 judges, prosecutors, diplomats, former members of Congress and high-level military and government officials yesterday released a proposed plan for closing the Guantanamo Bay prison camp and trying all suspected terrorists in civilian federal court.

“Some have opposed the closing of Guantanamo More…