http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Closing the Camps 60 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:45:06 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1347042.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1347042.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:03 EST A deal to move Guantánamo Bay detainees to a northwestern Illinois prison could bring nearly 3,000 jobs to the area, a White House analysis says. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1334203.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1334203.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:57 EST The Obama administration may buy a near-empty prison in rural northwestern Illinois to house detainees from Guantánamo Bay along with federal inmates, a White House official said Saturday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1332622.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1332622.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:16 EST Republican lawmakers Friday bitterly criticized President Barack Obama's decision to try accused terrorists in the United States and warned against moving detainees to South Carolina. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1328594.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1328594.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:33 EST President Barack Obama's order to close the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, military prison by Jan. 22 was followed by a series of mistakes and missteps by his administration that will delay the prison's closing for months, according to a report from a policy organization with close ties to the White House. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1318031.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1318031.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:34 EST It's one year before South Carolinians elect a new governor and the possibility that the Charleston Brig could house Guantánamo detainees is already roiling the race. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1291809.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1291809.html Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:56 EDT The military can comply with a White House order to empty the detention center and clear all 221 war-on-terror captives off this remote base "with 10 days notice,'' the prison camps commander said Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1269871.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1269871.html Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:37 EDT Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday he is worried lawmakers' opposition to bringing Guantánamo Bay detainees to U.S. prisons could hurt the effort to close the detention center. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1254570.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1254570.html Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:06 EDT Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Sunday morning news programs that trying to close down the detention center at Guantánamo Bay has proved more complicated than anticipated. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1237834.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1237834.html Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:45 EDT Kansas Sens. Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts said Wednesday they were "confident" that terrorist detainees from Guantánamo would not be relocated to Fort Leavenworth. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1227894.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1227894.html Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:28 EDT With hardly any debate, a powerful Senate committee Thursday approved President Barack Obama's $128 billion request for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for the budget year beginning in October. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1207289.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1207289.html Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:35 EDT The U.S. government on Friday sent two Syrian men from the prison camps at Guantánamo to resettlement in Portugal after years as war on terror captives at the U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1167861.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1167861.html Sat, 01 Aug 2009 14:19 EDT On May 20, the premier of Bermuda was paying his respects at the White House when he offered a lifeline to the Obama administration's struggle to find countries for some of Guantánamo's most stigmatized detainees. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1131895.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1131895.html Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:30 EDT Even as the White House pledges to empty the prison camps at Guantánamo Bay, a 30-year-old prisoner is so afraid of returning to his native Tajikistan that he is asking to stay at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1094958.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1094958.html Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:43 EDT The Pentagon sent three Guantánamo detainees to Saudi Arabia on Friday -- among them the prison camps' longest-running hunger striker -- to cap a week of far-flung transfers that the Obama administration said signaled global cooperation in its effort to empty the detention centern southeast Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1057305.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1057305.html Wed, 20 May 2009 19:04 EDT FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress Wednesday that bringing Guantánamo Bay detainees to the United States could pose a number of possible risks, even if the detainees were kept in maximum-security prisons. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1015895.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1015895.html Sun, 10 May 2009 11:22 EDT No one is saying what the U.S. government will do next with its strategic base along the Windward Passage. But here are some suggestions that have surfaced in the past year. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1040791.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1040791.html Sun, 10 May 2009 22:12 EDT These are days of uncertainty at Guantánamo Bay -- for the prisoners, contractors and sailors who will remain. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1037386.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1037386.html Thu, 07 May 2009 18:04 EDT Republicans have ratcheted up the debate over releasing Guantánamo detainees onto U.S. soil. Their plan: Give governors and state lawmakers veto power over any prisoner transfers or releases. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1030423.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1030423.html Sun, 03 May 2009 13:47 EDT The United States has asked Germany to accept some Guantánamo prisoners when the facility is closed, the Interior Ministry said Sunday, confirming German media reports. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1029920.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1029920.html Sat, 02 May 2009 16:53 EDT Once a storage depot for Cold War missiles, this military base is quiet these days, with miles of oak and pine, freshwater marshes, fishing piers, and a sleepy golf club. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1001810.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1001810.html Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:08 EDT America's top attorney, Eric Holder, on Wednesday night described his task of emptying the prison camps at Guantánamo "indisputably the most daunting challenge I face as attorney general.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/997763.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/997763.html Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:35 EDT The Obama administration hasn't picked -- or ruled out -- any lockups on U.S. soil where Guantánamo detainees may be sent. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/986759.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/986759.html Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:59 EDT Austria said Monday it would not take detainees from the Guantánamo Bay center despite a request by President Barack Obama for help from European nations during his first major international trip as leader. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/977530.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/977530.html Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:16 EDT In a prison camps first, the Obama administration Tuesday dispatched members of a detainee review team here to speak directly with 17 captives from China who were swept up in the war on terror and ultimately cleared of being enemies of America. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/957091.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/957091.html Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:30 EDT Some Chinese Muslim detainees long cleared for release from the prison camps at Guantánamo Bay could be released in the United States, Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday.