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President Barack Obama says he won't set a new deadline for closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison, but does expect the facility to shut down sometime next year.
An Illinois congressman says his comment that suspected terrorists detained at Guantanamo Bay follow a "savage religion" has been misinterpreted.
As the Obama administration considers a plan to move Guantanamo Bay detainees to prisons on U.S. soil, including possible sites in Illinois and Michigan, proponents and critics are spinning the facts.
Colorado officials say they haven't been contacted by the federal government regarding housing detainees from Guantanamo Bay in the state.
Some folks in this dying Mississippi River town would rather take their chances with suspected terrorists in their backyard than watch their neighbors continue to move away in despair over the lack of jobs.
In courtrooms barred to the public, dozens of terror suspects are pleading for their freedom from the Guantanamo Bay prison, sometimes even testifying on their own behalf by video from the U.S. naval base in Cuba.
The Obama administration may buy a near-empty prison in rural northwestern Illinois to house detainees from Guantanamo Bay along with federal inmates, a White House official said Saturday.
Canada's federal government is urging the country's top court to overturn a judicial order that obligates the government to seek the repatriation of the youngest detainee held by the U.S. at Guantanamo Bay.
Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be brought to trial in a civilian federal courthouse in New York, near the site of the devastating 2001 terror attacks. Prosecutors expect to seek the death penalty.
Ten high-profile Guantanamo Bay detainees are being transferred to face justice in the United States.
- Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York to face trial in a civilian federal court, officials said Friday.
Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York to face trial in a civilian federal court, and five other suspects will be sent to military commissions, an Obama administration official said Friday.
In a decade-long journey, the Tunisian went from drug pusher on the streets of Milan, to Islamic militant trained in Afghanistan to kill Americans, to potential key witness against Guantanamo Bay detainees.
The Pentagon says a small shipment of swine flu vaccine has arrived at the Guantanamo Bay military prison. It's unlikely any of the terror detainees held there will get any of the sought-after vaccine now.
U.S. officials are reviewing which Guantanamo Bay detainees could face trial in American courts and the first indications could come next week, the U.S. attorney general said Sunday.
The White House says detainees at Guantanamo Bay are not yet receiving vaccinations against the swine flu.
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.
They've shaved off the long beards they wore at Guantanamo Bay, and they were angered at a local newspaper report that casually referred to them as terrorists.
The defense secretary and attorney general are opposing an attempt to prohibit Guantanamo detainees from having civilian trials in the United States.
Seven former Guantanamo Bay detainees asked the High Court in London on Tuesday to reject a government request to use secret sessions to hear allegations that Britain was complicit in their torture overseas.
All detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison should be freed or transferred to U.S. federal courts for trial by the Jan. 22 deadline set by President Barack Obama, a U.N. human rights investigator said Monday.
Three human rights groups said Friday they will spurn an invitation to tour the Guantanamo Bay prison next month because it doesn't include an opportunity to speak with prisoners.
A coalition of mega-bands and singers outraged that music — including theirs — was cranked up to help break uncooperative detainees at Guantanamo Bay is joining retired military officers and liberal activists to rally support for President Barack Obama's push to shutter the Navy-run prison for terrorist suspects in Cuba.
Military judges at Guantanamo Bay granted requests for further continuances in two war crimes cases Wednesday as the Obama administration evaluates how to proceed with the prosecution of detainees.
Four former Guantanamo Bay prisoners who have settled in Bermuda are playing a behind-the-scenes role in the wealthy island's sporting event of the year.
Why couldn't Obama close Gitmo?Barack Obama finally had to admit this week that he would not close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay by his self-imposed deadline of January 2010 — and would not set a new deadline, either.
America Will Be On Trial In Khalid Sheik Muhammed TrialAmerica Will Hear About How We Treated Detainees During The Trial Khalid Sheik Muhammed. We Could have Avoided This Problem By Not Mistreating Prisoners In The First Place.
Republicans See More Chances to Block Gitmo Prisoners From U.S. SoilCongressional Republicans are pursuing multiple avenues to block the Obama administration from transferring Guantanamo detainees to the United States, despite a defeat on the issue in the Senate Tuesday afternoon.
May I Return My Christmas Present, Please?There I was, expertly navigating through traffic, when a snippet of news came on. It was the voice of the Speaker of the House, Madame Pelosi, promising that the healthcare bill would be ready to give to the American people as a "Christmas" present.
9/11 trial could become a parable of right and wrongIf it happens, the trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed will make for riveting drama amid the dry routines of procedure in federal court. Of all the many risks in the contest, the greatest may be the drama itself.
Gitmo interrogations spark battle over tacticsSpeaking publicly for the first time, senior U.S. law enforcement investigators say they waged a long but futile battle inside the Pentagon to stop coercive and degrading treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. MSNBC.com's Bill Dedman reports.
Is Your Favorite Song a Torture Device?I imagine that any song played for 20 days on repeat would be torturous.
Bands want to know if their music was used on Gitmo detaineesA 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
Lawmakers offer plan for Gitmo detaineesKey congressional negotiators unveil a plan to permit terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to continue to be transferred into the United States to face trial.
During his presidential campaign, President Obama pledged to end the use of secret prisons overseas, close Guantanamo Bay prison, and stop the abuse of suspected terrorists who are held prisoner by the United States. I commend him for this.
A Truly Shocking Guantanamo Story: Judge Confirms That an Innocent Man Was Tortured to Make False ConfessionsIn 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 …
The History of the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay In December 1903, the United States leased the 45 square miles of land and water for use as a coaling station.
Bin Laden Warns of RetaliationAs Obama weakens our defenses....
Obama won't change terror detention system: reportWASHINGTON - The Obama administration has decided not to seek legislation to establish a new detention system to hold foreign terrorism suspects, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
A new meme is under construction by the American right, the idea that so-called 'Tea Partiers' represent the views of the common U.S. citizen, fed up with what Alex Castellanos calls the "horrific tilt to the left" they see in government.
New Review System Will Give Afghan Prisoners More RightsHundreds of prisoners held by the U.S.
It's September now and we are coming to the point when the President wanted Guantanamo Bay to be closed. We have learned a little bit more about the prison since President Obama became President and have found out that it is one of the better Prisons that the US has.
We Need a New Legal Regime to Fight the War on Terror An open letter to the Attorney General
Lawyer hedges on closing Gitmo by JanuaryThe U.S. Defense Department top lawyer on Thursday said the Obama administration remains committed to closing the Guantanamo Bay prison by early next year but stopped short of assuring it will happen.
Obama Defies Federal Courts in Holding Yemeni DetaineesOn Monday a federal court judge ordered the Department of Defense to release a 47-year-old father of two with a heart condition who it has imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for the past seven years without justification.
'I was 12 when I was arrested' - Mohammed Jawad to sue US Government for arrest and Guantánamo detentionTwo articles: Mohammed Jawad: 'I was 12 when I was arrested and sent to Guantanamo' In December 2002, when he says he was only 12, he was arrested on suspicion of throwing a grenade into a Jeep carrying US special forces soldiers through Kabul, wounding two of them and an inter …
Gitmo detainee with bin Laden links to be freedA Yemeni man's admission that he met with Osama Bin Laden in the weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks are not enough to continue holding him at Guantanamo Bay, a judge wrote in an order released Friday.
Despite Congress' bipartisan effort to keep Guantanamo open, progress is being made. But what about Bagram?Despite Congress' massive bipartisan effort to keep Guantanamo Bay prison open by refusing to resettle any of the detainees who were determined not to be dangerous in the United States, the Obama administration has managed to find other countries to take them.
Obama admin to transfer six Guantanamo prisoners - ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration plans to transfer six prisoners abroad from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, a U.S. official said on Wednesday, part of the effort to close the controversial facility by early 2010.
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