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  MILITARY

  Obama selects Marine to head U.S. Southern Command

  Marine Corps Lt. Gen. John F. Kelly has been nominated to take charge of the Southern Command, headquartered in Doral.
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  Former CIA officer accused of terror leaks

  Justice Department also says its investigation cleared Guantánamo defense attorneys for former CIA captives of wrongdoing in the investigation.
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  UN rights chief says U.S. must close Guantánamo

  The U.N. human rights chief says the U.S. government must close the Guantánamo Bay prison as President Barack Obama promised a year ago.
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  Guantanamo

  Al Qaida magazine found at Guantánamo prison

  The disclosure that a copy of an al-Qaida magazine made it inside Guantánamo raises questions about prison camp’s security.
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  UN asked to examine US efforts to squelch Spain torture probe

  Two legal rights groups on Thursday asked the United Nations to investigate allegations that Spanish and U.S. officials collaborated to quash criminal probes into whether the Bush administration authorized illegal killings and torture of terrorism suspects.
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  WAR COURT

  Guantánamo prison camps chief defends legal mail monitoring

  Army Col. James Pohl, judge of the war court at Guantanamo, plans to hear more testimony Wednesday about whether prison staff read captives’ mail.
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  French judge wants to investigate at Guantánamo

  A French judge is seeking U.S. permission to visit the prison camps here to investigate claims by former French inmates that they were tortured, the Associated Press reported from Paris on Tuesday.
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  Military lawyers blast Guantánamo mail search as violating rights, ethics

  Military lawyers for Guantánamo detainees who could someday be put to death are accusing the new prison commander of censoring protected attorney-client documents, raising a new legal controversy that spotlights ongoing concern about the fairness of possible military trials.
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  Russia assails US over Guantánamo prison

  Russia’s Foreign Ministry has accused the U.S. of breaking international law by keeping terror suspects in indefinite custody without trial at the Guantánamo Bay prison.
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  War on terror

  Spanish judge reopens U.S. torture probe

  The Obama administration may want to look forward but but other countries are still interestedin determining whether Bush-era anti-terror practices violated international law.
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  Fight escalates over legal mail at Guantánamo

  The chief defense counsel for the Guantánamo Bay war crimes tribunals said Wednesday that he has instructed attorneys not to follow a new rule subjecting legal mail to a security review, escalating a dispute with the prison’s commander.
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  Guantanamo

  Guantánamo Bay prison camps turn 10

  Prisoners declared sit-ins and hunger strikes on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the detention center; prison spokeswoman says they’ll be tolerated so long as they’re peaceful
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  The war on terror

  Why Obama hasn’t closed Guantánamo camps

  The president is himself a prisoner, hemmed in by rules that make releasing captives nearly impossible.
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  MILITARY

  Defense strategy doesn’t suggest more US military to Latin America

  The Obama administration rollout of its new Defense Department strategy says little about Latin America and the Caribbean and does not foreshadow whether cuts are in store for Southern Command, the Pentagon’s outpost in Miami.
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  Obama signs defense bill despite ‘reservations’

  President Barack Obama signed a wide-ranging defense bill into law Saturday despite having “serious reservations” about provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists.
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  GUANTANAMO

  Base DJs riff Fidel Castro for fun, not profits

  Its motto is ‘Rockin’ in Fidel’s Backyard,’ although its on air jingle is more discrete. For listeners on the Guantánamo base, the station offers a little levity with the serious mission.
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  GUANTANAMO

  Secret Guantánamo cell block cost nearly $700,000

  It was built in 2007 but the detention center at Guantánamo only confirmed its existence earlier this month, and released a photo of the cramped cells they use to punish captives
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  In U.S. military leak case, closed hearing spars over digital evidence

  U.S. military prosecutors and defense lawyers argued Monday over evidence against an Army intelligence analyst charged with leaking massive amounts of secret U.S. data to WikiLeaks, while the public was shut out as the hearing dealt with classified but widely publicized information.
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  Prison camp discloses secret discipline unit

  In releasing a photo of the so-called discipline unit called “Five Echo,” the military at Guantánamo was showing to the public a detention block the media don’t see.

• WAR ON TERROR

  Defense bill ignites debate over treatment of terror suspects

  A defense bill approved by the Senate includes a provision that would require the military to arrest terrorist suspects in the United States and detain them indefinitely without trial.

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