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Sept. 11, USS Cole families meet Obama

It's official now: Waterboarding is a word

Demonstrators from the group "World Can't Wait" hold a mock waterboarding torture of a prisioner in Times Square Jan. 11, 2008 to mark the sixth year anniversary of when the United States opened the camps at Guantánamo.

Congress has debated the wisdom of it. Human rights groups have decried the use of it. Now the dictionary people at Merriam-Webster have decided it's a real term that came into the American vernacular in 2004. 1247178704

Link | Merriam-Webster's announcement

Guantánamo captive: I don't want to go home

A Guantánamo Bay captive is so fearful of returning to his homeland that he is fighting U.S. plans to send him there.
Palau asks for more US aid after Gitmo deal

Palau, which has agreed to resettle some Guantánamo detainees, is asking longtime benefactor the United States for a 35-year extension on direct aid funding.
White House still deciding: War court vs. civilian trials

The Obama administration prefers war on terror prosecutions in civilian courts but has not yet decided where to try those accused of involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks who are now held at Guantánamo Bay, government lawyers told a Senate committee on Tuesday.
Former Guantánamo prisoner says abuse photos exist

A former Guantánamo Bay prisoner now living in England says the United States has photographs of him being beaten during his detention and has asked a judge to preserve the evidence.

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Defense in Sept. 11 case seeks 'black site' access

Lawyers for an alleged Sept. 11 plotter held at Guantánamo want to inspect secret CIA overseas prisons, say...
Detainee attorney wants interrogations banned

Attorneys for a Guantánamo Bay prisoner asked a federal judge Wednesday to exclude as evidence against him...
Judge denies Afghan's challenge to detention

A federal judge who issued a groundbreaking order allowing military detainees in Afghanistan to go to U.S. ...
Supreme Court to decide final 3 cases on Monday

A closely watched discrimination lawsuit by white firefighters who say they have unfairly been denied promo...
Uighurs ask Supreme Court to free them from Guantánamo

Attorneys for 17 Muslims from China locked up inside a prison camp at Guantánamo asked the U.S. Supr...
Obama still deciding how to prosecute 9/11 accused
Army judge postpones Guantánamo hearing
- Judge won't delay May 27 military commission session
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A few U.S. cities to host Guantánamo transplants

While other cities across the U.S. have balked at taking in any of the more than 200 detainees from the inf...
Obama: Talks ongoing with Germany

President Barack Obama says he and Chancellor Angela Merkel have not yet gotten down to a discussion of jus...
U.S. sends 3 more detainees to Saudi Arabia

The Pentagon sent three Guantánamo detainees to Saudi Arabia on Friday -- among them the prison camp...
Guantánamo releases concern FBI director

FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress Wednesday that bringing Guantánamo Bay detainees to the Un...
After Guantánamo | What's Next?

No one is saying what the U.S. government will do next with its strategic base along the Windward Passage....
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Guantánamo base awaits uncertain future

These are days of uncertainty at Guantánamo Bay -- for the prisoners, contractors and sailors who will rem...
GOP ratchets up debate over closing Guantánamo

Republicans have ratcheted up the debate over releasing Guantánamo detainees onto U.S. soil. Their plan: Gi...
- US asks Germany to take Guantánamo prisoners
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Guantánamo base awaits uncertain future

These are days of uncertainty at Guantánamo Bay -- for the prisoners, contractors and sailors who will rem...
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Townsfolk leery of holding Guantánamo terrorism suspects

The anxiety of locals who live near the brig at Charleston, S.C., one possible place Guantánamo deta...
Harold's pal Kumar goes to the White House
Closing detainee camp a minefield of critical steps

To find a formula to close the Guantánamo prison camps, the incoming Obama administration will have ...
'Platinum' captives held at off-limits Gitmo camp

The Pentagon has placed its newest camp strictly out of bounds for both media and military defense attorneys.
Photos echo 6 years later

In 2002, a Navy photographer captured the first Guantánamo detainees in shackles on their knees, cre...
IN THE PRISON CAMPS

Terror suspects' beards are safe now

In a practice that ended in May, guards at the prison camps cut Muslim captives' beards as a disciplinary m...
- Captives rigged nooses
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