Guantánamo detainees sent to Kuwait, Belgium

Belgium on Friday became the latest European nation to resettle a freshly released Guantánamo detainee, confirming "the free man'' would be provided work papers and "a smooth integration into society.''

Lawmakers plan transfers from Gitmo to U.S. trials

In a partial victory for President Obama's troubled bid to close the U.S. prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, key congressional negotiators adopted a plan Wednesday to permit terror suspects held there to continue to be transferred into the United States to face trial.

Omar Khadr gets new lawyers, no 2009 trial

In one of the quickest ever war court sessions here, a judge held a 29-minute hearing Wednesday and agreed to let a pair of former U.S. federal prosecutors defend accused Canadian teen terrorist Omar Khadr at a trial, if it is held, next year. Photo Gallery Available

Navy Rear Adm. Tom Copeman, commander of the Joint Task Force Guantanamo since June, conducts a first-ever interview with reporters visiting the base for a session of the Military Commissions, on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009. Copeman, the senior military officer at the U.S. Navy Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, provides staff that assists in the operation of commissions, the Pentagon's war court, as well as directs detention and interrogation operations at the remote prison camps that today holds 223 captives. The war court gavels into session Wednesday with a pre-trial hearing for Canadian captive Omar Khadr, accused of killing a U.S. soldier with a grenade near Khost, Afghanistan in July 2002.

Admiral: Last Guantánamo death was suicide

A Navy criminal investigation has concluded that a Yemeni man found dead in the Guantánamo prison camps' psychiatric ward in June committed suicide, the detention center commander said Tuesday.

This undated file picture released Oct. 10, 2001 by the FBI shows Tanzanian Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani.

U.S.: No death penalty for embassy bomb suspect

The U.S. government has decided not to seek the death penalty against a former Guantánamo detainee charged in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.

House resolves: No Gitmo detainees on U.S. soil

The House of Representatives went on record Thursday against allowing detainees at the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba to be transferred to the United States, even to face trial or to be jailed in maximum-security prisons.

In this photo, approved for release by the U.S. military, guards stand on either side of detainees, in white, to perform a search for unauthorized items, at Camp 4 at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Tuesday, May 12, 2009.

78 Guantánamo detainees cleared to leave

The Obama administration's task force has cleared a third of the Guantánamo detainees for release, and the military has posted notices in the camps in a bid to signal that, for some war-on-terror captives, an end of their days in Cuba may be on the horizon.

Oybek Jabbarov, 31, of Uzbekistan at Camp Delta at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, posing earlier this year for a Red Cross delegate in this photo of a photograph. Note thumb in lower left corner. His Irish-American lawyer and human rights groups made his cleared client's case a cause celebre in Dublin, and told government officials there that the Uzbek wants to resettle in Ireland, as a sheep herder.

2 Uzbeks arrive in Ireland from Guantánamo prison

Two Uzbeks freed from the Guantánamo Bay prison arrived Sunday in Ireland, and Amnesty International appealed to other European Union nations to deliver on pledges to give new homes to U.S. terror detainees.

A grackle perches on razor wire at Camp 4 on March 31, 2009 in this photo approved for release by the U.S. military at the Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Guantánamo breaks logjam, frees captives to Yemen, Ireland

Even as the White House left doubt on whether it would meet its own prison camps closure deadline, the Obama administration said Saturday it had freed three detainees from Guantánamo -- one by order of a federal judge to Yemen, two others for new lives in Ireland.

Marine who established prison camps: U.S. lost moral high ground

The Marine general who built the Guantánamo Bay prison said Thursday the U.S. lost the "moral high ground'' with its brutal treatment of prisoners, and the facility should be closed as quickly as possible.

A Uighur Muslim detainee hides inside a plywood hut at Camp Iguana on Monday June 1, 2009 moments after a spontaneous poster-board protest in this image approved for release by the military at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Up to 8 more Uighurs to soon leave Guantánamo

The Obama administration says at least six, and as many as eight, Muslims from China now held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, will soon leave their island prison for freedom in another island nation, Palau. Photo Gallery Available

In this image approved for release by the U.S. military, a detainee gives visiting media a thumbs-down from inside his cell on March 31, 2009, at Camp 6, a maximum security prison with areas of lower security at the U.S. Navy base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Judge OKs Guantánamo detention of Algerian

A federal judge has upheld as lawful the indefinite detention of an Algerian accused of being an al Qaeda bomb maker, raising the tally of U.S. government victories in Guantánamo habeas corpus lawsuits to eight. Photo Gallery Available

The Military Commissions building at the U.S. Navy Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

More delays, torture claims at Guantánamo war court

The chief war court judge here yielded Wednesday to an Obama administration request and postponed until next year the terror trial of a Saudi Arabian captive who claims he was subjected to a string of abuses in U.S. captivity. Photo Gallery Available

Alleged al Qaeda kingpin Khalid Sheik Mohammed posed for this photo in July, at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It was taken by the International Committee of the Red Cross to be sent home for Ramadan, and first showed up on Arabic language websites seen as sympathetic to al Qaeda last week, according to counter-terror expert Jarret Brachman. It is the first known public picture since his widely circulated March 2003 capture photo of him rousted from sleep in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

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9/11 mastermind: 'Allah,' not lawyers, will protect me

Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who has bragged about his role in the Sept. 11 attacks, has asked to dismiss his ACLU lawyers and face his death-penalty case alone

A detainee is shown resting inside his cell in Camp Delta at Guantanamo in June 2004.

U.S. appeals judge's order to free Yemeni from Guantánamo

Obama administration is appealing a federal judge's month-old order to set free a 47-year-old Yemeni held here for 7 1/2 years who admitted to meeting Osama bin Laden at his brother-in-law's wedding party. Photo Gallery Available

This recent photo of alleged al Qaeda kingpin Khalid Sheik Mohammed, in detention at Guantanamo, was taken by the International Committee of the Red Cross in July.

Guantánamo judge delays 9/11 case until Nov. 16

The military judge overseeing the 9/11 mass murder case on Monday froze proceedings for two months to give the Obama administration time to decide whether to take the case to federal court.

Alleged 9/11 perpetrator studying Vietnam War atrocity film

The man accused of masterminding the 9/11 attacks has received a copy of a 30-year-old Hollywood film on the My Lai massacre.

U.S. Navy Capt. John Murphy, how the chief war crimes prosecutor, speaking to reporters at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Friday, Dec. 12, 2008.

4 civilian prosecutors' offices vie for 9/11 case

Four different civilian prosecutors' offices -- two in New York, two near the Pentagon -- are studying whether to charge and put on trial five alleged 9/11 conspirators.

Swiss confirm officials visited Guantánamo camps

Swiss officials visited the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, last month to gather information on captives the Alpine country is considering for resettlement once they are released, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Sunday.

Red Cross: Guantánamo detainees get video calls

The international Red Cross says it has set up video links allowing Guantánamo Bay inmates to talk to their families and friends face-to-face.

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