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WAR COURT
Guantánamo’s first secret national security session a mystery
Pentagon prosecutors and defense lawyers in the USS Cole death penalty case held the first closed hearing of the Obama war court Friday, a 78-minute secret session that excluded both the public and the accused al-Qaida terrorist.
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WAR COURT
Guantánamo judge orders first closed session of Obama war court
Judge orders first closed war court motions, locks out both accused and public in Guantánamo death penalty case.
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WikiLeaks trial focuses on Guantánamo detainee assessments
The court-marshal of an Army private who sent troves of classified documents to WikiLeaks is turning to information gathered from Guantánamo Bay detainees.
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WAR COURT
Guantánamo debate: When is a spiral notebook a weapon?
In continuing tug-of-war over attorney-client conditions, defense lawyer for alleged al-Qaida bomber asks Guantánamo judge to order prison to let attorney bring spiral notebooks, pens and eyeglasses to prison camp meetings.
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WAR COURT
New layer of secrecy at Guantánamo court
A classified motion in the case of a Saudi man accused of arranging the October 2000 USS Cole bombing is so secret that the public cant know its name.
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Guantánamo gets troop surge, no special envoys
More than two weeks after the president promised a renewed effort to empty Guantánamo, two special senior envoy posts remain empty.
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Guantánamo
White House official, senators tour Guantánamo
President Barack Obamas chief of staff toured the Guantánamo detention center on Friday with Senators Dianne Feinstein and John McCain and all three promptly issued a joint statement supporting closure of the controversial prison camps in southeast Cuba.
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AG: US not using drones to avoid growing Guantánamo
Attorney General Eric Holder denied Thursday that the Obama administration is killing suspected terrorists with drone strikes to avoid capturing them and sending them to the Guantánamo prison it wants to close.
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IN THE CAMPS
Guantánamo prison getting guard reinforcements
The Guantánamo prison already has more than 10 staffers for each captive. And the number is growing, thanks in part to the hunger strike.
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Southcom general has nothing to offer Guantánamo hunger strikers
Marine Corps. Gen. John F. Kelly says military has no incentives to offer hunger strikers to halt their protest at Guantánamo; disagrees with President Barack Obama that the enteral feedings equal force-feedings.
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WAR COURT
Guantánamo captive accused in USS Cole bombing suffers from PTSD, depression
The man accused of orchestrating the bombing of a U.S. Navy warship that killed 17 suffers from PTSD and depression but is fit to stand trial, according to a military mental health assessment of the captive whod been waterboarded.
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In the camps
Pentagon: No weekend detainee release from Guantánamo
The Pentagon flatly refuted reports Saturday that it had released two men from the prison camps in Guantánamo Bay to Mauritania and said the most recent transfer took place nine months ago.
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Threat spurs Canada to move ex-Guantánamo prisoner Omar Khadr
The lawyer for a Canadian man who spent 10 years at the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo says his client has been transferred from a prison in Ontario to one in Western Canada after another inmate threatened his life.
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In the camps
U.S. military force feeding a third of Guantánamo hunger strikers
U.S. Navy medical staff were on Sunday force feeding 35 captives at the prison camps at Guantánamo, a military spokesman said, noting that six of at least 103 hunger strikers were hospitalized.
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Troops can tweet from Guantánamo again
U.S. troops can once again tweet and post on Facebook from the coffee shop, Irish pub and library at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, a base spokeswoman said Wednesday.
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HUNGER STRIKE
Military defense lawyers cite My Lai massacre in plea to Hagel
Uniformed defense lawyers for alleged Guantánamo terrorists invoked the Vietnam Wars My Lai massacre in their bid to get Vietnam veteran Chuck Hagel to intervene in the prison camps.
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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.
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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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In the camps
Guantánamo hunger strike tally hits 102
Military officials would not comment on whether the current 102 hunger strikers include alleged 9/11 conspirators.
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IN THE CAMPS
Guantánamo: 30 of the 100 hunger strikers now being tube-fed
Guantánamo prison staff members were tube-feeding 30 of the 100 hunger-striking captives on Wednesday, the detention center said, reporting an all-time high last reached in 2005.

























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