Montana town offers to take Guantanamo prisoners

On Capitol Hill, politicians are dead-set against transferring some of the world's most feared terrorists from Guantanamo to prisons on U.S. soil. But at City Hall in this impoverished town on the Northern Plains, the attitude is: Bring 'em on.

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Fed. judge says courts can handle Gitmo cases

A federal judge who presided over the trial of a 9/11 conspirator said Thursday that civilian courts are capable of handling the cases of Guantanamo Bay detainees.

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A step has been taken to right the injustices being done to the remaining detainees at the Guantánamo naval base.

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Al-Marri's long years of extra-legal detention and torture -- like those endured by two other Americans, Yasser Hamdi and Jose Padilla -- are a black mark on America's recent history, and it has always amazed me that even Americans who were -- and are -- content to let foreigners …

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After much debate, they will not get the shot(for now)

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Terrorism suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base will soon get swine flu vaccines, despite complaints that American civilians should have priority, a military spokesman said Sunday.

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ONE year ago, a jubilant Barack Obama stood in Grant Park, Chicago, to claim victory before his exuberant supporters.

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Ottawa has spent more than $1.3-million fighting against Toronto-born captive Omar Khadr, who has been held at the U.S.-run Guantanamo Bay detention centre for seven years, the government has revealed.

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According to human rights lawyer John Sifton, the CIA tortured some of its detainees in the War on Terror so severely that it had to take measures to keep them alive so they could continue being tortured.

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Don't we all want to know what the psych analysts from the military think are the tunes so irritating, so grating, so annoying that merely playing them for hours on end would cause the world's worst terrorists to spill their secrets and forgo martyrdom rather than endure cont …

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A coalition of top musicians, including R.E.M. and Pearl Jam, want to know if their music was used by the U.S. military as part of controversial interrogation methods at the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

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A declassified ruling by a federal court judge reveals that Fouad al-Rabiah, an innocent Kuwaiti prisoner who was ordered released from Guantanamo three weeks ago, was brutally tortured into making false confessions by US interrogators and repeatedly threatened until he confesse …

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Greg Craig, the top in-house lawyer for President Barack Obama, is getting the blame for botching the strategy to shut down Guantanamo Bay prison by January — so much so that he's expected to leave the White House in short order.

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I like to believe that, despite studying Guantánamo for four years, I still have a sense of humor, but last Thursday I lost it, after 258 members of the House of Representatives (including 88 members of President Obama's own party) voted for an idiotic, paranoid, and unjust moti …

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In four years of researching and writing about Guantánamo, I have become used to uncovering shocking information, but for sheer cynicism, I am struggling to think of anything that compares to the revelations contained in the unclassified ruling in the habeas corpus petition of F …

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Released after 7 years detention, a former Gitmo prisoner, Mohammed Jawad, is suing the U.S.

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If President Obama reneges on his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility this coming January, an important reason will be the hysterical oppostion in Congress to transferring some inmates to the Untied States.

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Hardin Montana may get more than it asked for....and NOT in a good way, either.

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In December 1903, the United States leased the 45 square miles of land and water for use as a coaling station.

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"Some of the fear issues that are being raised in this are really unfortunate. It gets people excited about things they shouldn't be excited about and impedes doing what is critical to this country. Get that damn symbol off the table," said retired Gen.

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Does Waterboarding Work? Many Scientists Say, "No"

Severe interrogation techniques like sleep deprivation, stress positions, exploitation of phobias, and Dick Cheney's favorite, waterboarding aren't just reprehensible, they are based on bad science, according to Shane O"Mara, a stress researcher at Ireland's Trinity College Insti …

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It has now been confirmed that one of the Uzbeks freed in Ireland is indeed Oybek Jabbarov, and, while I wish him and his unidentified countryman every opportunity to settle into their new home in peace, I want to take this opportunity to reproduce a letter by Jabbarov, sent from …

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The lawyer for Omar Khadr, the only Western citizen still behind bars at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, said Saturday he is not surprised at the news the military prison may not close by the deadline set by U.S. President Barack Obama.

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President Obama is opposed to a truth commission to investigate torture by the CIA. He is also no longer interested in prosecutions which means no independent counsel.

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A bill that could go to the Senate floor as early as next week would make it impossible for President Barack Obama to move any Guantanamo prisoners to the U.S. for any reason, effectively blocking his plan to close the facility by January.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration said on Wednesday it would seek a two-month delay for all military trials for terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay while Congress weighs new rules for the proceedings and the White House considers trying them in U.S. courts.

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