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HUNGER STRIKE

Guantánamo’s military defense lawyers cite My Lai massacre in plea to Hagel

 

US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel arrives to greet French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian at the Pentagon in Washington on May 17, 2013.

Uniformed defense lawyers for alleged Guantánamo terrorists invoked the Vietnam War’s My Lai massacre in their bid to get Vietnam veteran Chuck Hagel to intervene in the prison camps.

  • Pentagon wants $450M for Guantánamo prison

    The Pentagon is asking Congress for more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading the Guantánamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wants to close.

  • Court: US can keep bin Laden photos under wraps

    A federal appeals court Tuesday backed the U.S. government's decision not to release photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden during and after a raid in which the terrorist leader was killed by U.S. commandos.

  • No wifi at Guantánamo's Starbucks

    The U.S. military has shut down wireless internet service at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba because of online hacking threats.

  • War on terror

    Obama to speak on prison, legality of drone program

    President Barack Obama will discuss the legality of his administration’s secret drone program and his plans to close the prison camps at Guantánamo during a speech Thursday on counterterrorism practices, a White House official said.


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