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  Answers to key questions about Guantánamo detention center

  Candidate Barack Obama pledged that he’d close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility. Easier said than done. Here are some key questions and answers.
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  War court

  Navy lawyer leaving case of waterboarded bombing suspect

  The Naval officer who has been defending an alleged terrorist linked to a plot on a U.S. Navy warship is leaving the case to study at Harvard Law School.

• GUANTANAMO

  Yemeni minister, expecting high-level detainee talks, leaves U.S. in a huff

  Yemen’s human rights minister abruptly ended her visit to Washington this week without lobbying U.S. officials for the release of her fellow citizens from Guantánamo, where Yemeni make up more than half the population at the controversial U.S.-run prison that President Barack Obama has pledged to close.
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  IN THE CAMPS

  Detainee alleges guards searched Qurans in prison

  In a newly released court filing, a Guantánamo detainee accused guards of going through their holy books to instigate a hunger strike.

• GUANTANAMO

  Law office says defense lawyer’s death not linked to Guantánamo

  An Ohio public defender who was part of a team that represents Guantánamo detainees died last week but had not been to the base for months, his office said Friday.
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  White House: Moratorium still blocks Yemen transfers

  The White House said Wednesday that despite President Barack Obama’s pledge to do what he can to close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, a moratorium on sending cleared detainees back to Yemen “remains in place” – a policy that, if unchanged, provides perhaps the biggest obstacle to shuttering the controversial island prison.
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  IN THE CAMPS

  Some force-fed captives are cleared for release

  The U.S. military now counts 100 of the 166 captives as hunger strikers. Twenty-three are being tube fed, four in the prison hospital.
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  In the camps

  AMA opposes forced feedings at Guantánamo

  The president of the American Medical Association said in a letter to the Secretary of Defense that every competent patient — even a prisoner — has the right to refuse food or medical care.

• WASHINGTON

  President Barack Obama vows anew to shut Guantánamo prison

  President Barack Obama said the war-on-terror prison at the U.S. Navy base ‘is not necessary to keep America safe. It needs to be closed.’
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  In the camps

  More Navy medics arrive at Guantánamo to help out on forced feedings

  About 40 additional U.S. Navy medical forces have arrived at the prison camps at Guantánamo to assist in the growing hunger strike by 100 captives, more then a fifth of them being force-fed, a spokesman said Monday.
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  IN THE CAMPS

  Life under lockdown at America’s hunger-striking prison camps

  America’s offshore war-on-terror prison camp has gone from peaceable routine to hunger-striking nightmare. A look at life at the prison where nearly every captive is under lockdown.
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  IN THE CAMPS

  Red Cross arrives at Guantánamo as hunger strike hits 100 mark

  The U.S. military now counts 100 of the 166 captives as hunger strikers. It said a fifth of them were being force fed on Saturday as the International Red Cross launched new prison camp visits.
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  IN THE CAMPS

  Amid growing strike, review of releases urged

  The U.S. military now counts 94 of the 166 captives as hunger strikers, 17 being tube fed, 3 hospitalized.
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  IN THE CAMPS

  Military says Guantánamo hunger strike grows again

  Military says hunger strikers have more than doubled since April 13 lockdown: 92 on strike, 17 tube fed, 2 hospitalized.
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  In the camps

  Southcom to send more medics to Guantánamo

  The U.S. military prepared to increase the size of its medical staff as the number of hunger strikers being tube fed increased to 17 on Tuesday.

• Prison hunger strike holds at just over half Guantánamo's prisoners

  A prison spokesman says 84 of the 166 captives had missed enough meals or become malnourished enough to meet the detention-center definition of a hunger strike.
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  Boston bombing

  Boston Marathon bombing suspect: enemy combatant or common criminal?

  A political and legal debate is underway about whether to treat the alleged Boston Marathon bomber as an enemy combatant or a common criminal.
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  In the camps

  Guantánamo hunger strike reaches 63 -- 38 percent

  The prison-camps spokesman said 63 of the 166 captives had missed enough meals or become malnourished enough to meet the detention-center definition of a hunger strike.
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  IN THE CAMP

  U.S. troops detail skirmish with Guantánamo captives

  Captives fashioned weapons from broom handles and gravel-filled water bottles to battle U.S. troops in what was once Guantánamo’s showcase prison for cooperative detainees.

• White House alerted ahead of Guantánamo raid

  Spokesman says 45 of 166 captives are now considered to be hunger strikers, and 13 are being tube fed.

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