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Obama lifts ban on Guantánamo transfers to Yemen

President Barack Obama continues to speaks about national security, Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, as CODEPINK founder Medea Benjamin of Code Pink shouted at him from the back of the auditorium.

President Barack Obama is lifting his self-imposed ban on transferring Guantánamo Bay detainees to Yemen, where a leadership upheaval has improved the country's security but not eliminated a terrorist organization trying to recruit jihadists.

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.
HUNGER STRIKE

Military defense lawyers cite My Lai massacre in plea to Hagel

Uniformed defense lawyers for alleged Guantánamo terrorists invoked the Vietnam War’s My Lai massacre in their bid to get Vietnam veteran Chuck Hagel to intervene in the prison camps.
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.
Court: US can keep bin Laden photos under wraps

A federal appeals court Tuesday backed the U.S. government's decision not to release photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden during and after a raid in which the terrorist leader was killed by U.S. commandos.

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US SUPREME COURT

Justices reject Padilla, Guantánamo appeals

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up any of seven Guantánamo detainee cases, and also refused to...
War court

Pentagon charges former U.S. resident at Guantánamo in terror plot

The Pentagon’s war crimes prosecutor proposes to put a graduate of a suburban Baltimore high school ...
WAR COURT

Guantánamo judge won’t subpoena Yemeni leader

The chief military commissions judge refused a defense request to order Yemen’s embattled leader, now ...
WAR COURT

State Department: Guantánamo lawyers can’t question Yemeni leader

Pentagon lawyers for a Guantánamo captive want to get sworn testimony from the Yemeni leader, now in N...
GUANTANAMO

Alleged bomber's lawyer wants to question Yemeni leader

The motion to depose Ali Abdullah Saleh was under seal at the Pentagon Tuesday; the Yemeni president is in ...
Judge dismisses ex-captive's damage suit

A federal judge has dismissed a damages claim by former Guantánamo captive Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak Al ...
CAMP JUSTICE

No 9/11 trial this year at Guantánamo war court
- Pentagon announces trial of alleged Cole mastermind on new Guantánamo website
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EXCLUSIVE | NAVY BASE

Navy plans $40 million fiber-optic link to Guantánamo base

The $40 million project will put an underwater cable from the base in southeast Cuba through the Windward P...
GUANTANAMO

Base DJs riff Fidel Castro for fun, not profits
Web Extra | A prison camps primer

The Pentagon has built a series of facilities at Guantánamo Bay since it inaugurated its offshore dete...
Environment

Guantánamo is going green

Better known for its experiment in offshore detention, interrogation and military justice, Guantánamo ...
WAR ON TERROR

Guantánamo: the most expensive prison on earth
CIA’s Bay of Pigs foreign policy laid bare

A recently released, and brutally honest, look at the run-up to the disastrous Bay of Pigs Operation focuse...
Updated 6/28/2011

Who's still being held at Guantánamo

Here is a comprehensive list of who is still held at the Guantánamo detention center in Cuba. McClatch...
- WikiLeaks: How U.S. tried to stop Spain's torture probe
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