http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Guantánamo 60 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:06:01 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1346609.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1346609.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:27 EST The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday. http://www.miamiherald.com/1339/story/679518.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1339/story/679518.html Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:37 EDT Habeas corpus scorecard 8-31 http://www.miamiherald.com/1339/story/322461.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1339/story/322461.html Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:19 EDT The prison camps' census and more (updated 11/20/09) http://www.miamiherald.com/1339/story/1147580.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1339/story/1147580.html Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:30 EDT Camp Justice http://www.miamiherald.com/1339/story/1031410.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1339/story/1031410.html Mon, 04 May 2009 08:45 EDT After Guantánamo: <br> A multimedia project http://www.miamiherald.com/1339/story/1308637.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1339/story/1308637.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:31 EDT Follow reporter covering Guantánamo http://www.miamiherald.com/1339/story/679510.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1339/story/679510.html Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:33 EDT See the evolution (updated 10/20/09) http://www.miamiherald.com/1339/story/679506.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1339/story/679506.html Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:26 EDT Guantánamo in theater, books and music http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/1326739.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/1326739.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:02 EST Out of work and willing to relocate? McDonald's is advertising for an assistant manager for its sole franchise in Cuba -- serving up burgers and fries that sometimes feed detainees at the prison camps at Guantánamo Bay. http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/1332618.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/1332618.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:52 EST Over the years, the Pentagon has sworn out military commission charges against 26 detainees at Guantánamo. Here's how those cases stand after Attorney General Eric Holder's announcement that five 9/11 conspirators will be prosecuted in civilian court in New York. http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/1331589.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/1331589.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:46 EST Attorney General Eric Holder has announced a series of developments in the Obama administration's bid to shut down the prison camps at Guantánamo, chief among them plans for a 9/11 trial in New York City. http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/102770.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/102770.html Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:20 EDT <br> The Pentagon has built a series of prison camps at Guantánamo Bay since it inaugurated its offshore interrogation center for terrorist suspects in January 2002 by airlifting captives to remote Cuba from Bagram, Afghanistan. They include: <br> <hr> <br> <img src="http://media.miamiherald.com/smedia/2007/10/30/11/662-1.highlight.prod_affiliate.56.jpg" align="right" hspace="5"/> <b>Camp X-Ray:</b> The first camp, with 320 cells made of chain-link fencing, has emerged as the iconic image of the rugged, makeshift accommodations granted so-called enemy combatants in remote Cuba. A maze of kennel-like cages, the camp housed prisoners for about four months. It was an arrangement that allowed them to chat and pray communally and at one point organize the first hunger strike. Now abandoned, and overgrown with weeds, it provides journalists from around the world an opportunity to see how the detention center's infrastructure has evolved. <b>Opened: Jan. 11, 2002. Current population: zero.</b><br><br> <hr> <br> <img src="http://media.miamiherald.com/smedia/2007/10/30/11/889-2.highlight.prod_affiliate.56.jpg" align="right" hspace="5"/> <b>Camp Delta, also known as Camps 1-2-3:</b> This was the first improvement for housing the detainees. Halliburton workers from the Indian subcontinent welded metal shipping containers to create about 720 individual steel and mesh cells in boxcar-style arrangements. Built in stages for well over $30 million, its first phase, built in May 2002 with a projected five-year life span, has been renovated to make it harder for captives to rip steel parts from the walls and floors of the cells. In June 2006, three Arab captives were simultaneously discovered hanging in their cells, initially unnoticed by guards because they hung towels to block the view. By January 2009, a Pentagon report said, it was being used to house an undisclosed number of hunger-striking detainees being force-fed nutritional shakes through tubes tethered up their noses and into their stomachs. <b>Opened: April 28, 2002. Current detainee population: About 10.</b><br><br> <hr> <br> <img src="http://media.miamiherald.com/smedia/2007/10/30/11/195-3.highlight.prod_affiliate.56.jpg" align="right" hspace="5" border="1"/> <b>Camp Echo:</b> This 24-cell camp has been used for captives to meet lawyers inside shed-style buildings containing a tiny cell, a toilet and shower, with adjoining space for a table and chairs, and an ankle shackle fixed to the floor. Until a federal judge ordered the practice halted in November 2004, it was used as a special segregation site for detainees facing war-crimes trials before Military Commissions. Confessed al Qaeda foot soldier David Hicks of Australia lived there on and off for long stretches of his five-year stay at Guantánamo and was segregated from the "enemy combatant" population following his guilty plea while awaiting repatriation to his homeland. A few detainees live there permanently for reasons the military has not explained. <b>Opened: Date unknown. Current detainee population: Three to five.</b> http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/1277709.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/1277709.html Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:21 EDT A list of guidelines for the Guantánamo detainee library, obtained by The Miami Herald, breaks down topics between restricted and authorized for distribution among war-on-terror captives. http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/1040791.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/1040791.html Sun, 10 May 2009 22:03 EDT These are days of uncertainty at Guantánamo Bay -- for the prisoners, contractors and sailors who will remain. http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/1029920.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/1029920.html Sat, 02 May 2009 10:03 EDT Once a storage depot for Cold War missiles, this military base is quiet these days, with miles of oak and pine, freshwater marshes, fishing piers, and a sleepy golf club. http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/988997.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/988997.html Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:32 EDT The White House has hired Indian-American actor Kal Penn as a liaison between President Barack Obama's administration and arts groups. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1340676.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1340676.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:07 EST With a prison camps closure date now uncertain, the Pentagon gaveled into business a military commissions session Wednesday with an Afghan foot soldier case. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1339798.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1339798.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:37 EST An Illinois congressman says his comment that suspected terrorists detained at Guantánamo Bay follow a "savage religion'' has been misinterpreted. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1339323.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1339323.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:57 EST President Barack Obama says he won't set a new deadline for closing the Guantánamo Bay military prison, but does expect the facility to shut down sometime next year. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1338372.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1338372.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:42 EST The alleged 9/11 conspirators neither greeted with joy nor trepidation the news that they would be taken to New York City to face a civilian trial for the Sept. 11 attacks. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1336034.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1336034.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:50 EST Some folks in this dying Mississippi River town would rather take their chances with suspected terrorists in their backyard than watch their neighbors continue to move away in despair over the lack of jobs. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1335533.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1335533.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:00 EST What can stay? What can go? And what can be destroyed? Undaunted, Guantánamo is preparing for the day when the detainees are gone. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1332775.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1332775.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Confessed mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other alleged 9/11 plotters will face a federal trial in New York, Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday in an announcement that left intact the war court at Guantánamo. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1332599.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1332599.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:02 EST Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to prosecute confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four alleged underlings in civilian courts ignited a debate Friday about whether the trial would invite new attacks on New York and if the proceeding would be stymied by legal wrangling over the defendants' rights. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1332361.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1332361.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:50 EST The move to put the self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind on trial just blocks from ground zero raises a host of legal, political and security questions, chief among them: Can a fair-minded jury be found in a city still nursing deep wounds from the attack on the World Trade Center? http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1331792.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1331792.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:10 EST The federal government argued before the Supreme Court Friday that Canadian courts do not have the right to order authorities to seek the repatriation of the youngest detainee held by the U.S. at Guantánamo Bay. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1331741.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1331741.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:57 EST Confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his four co-accused will face a federal trial in New York City -- not a military tribunal in Guantánamo, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Friday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1331453.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1331453.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:52 EST In a decade-long journey, the Tunisian went from drug pusher on the streets of Milan, to Islamic militant trained in Afghanistan to kill Americans, to potential key witness against Guantánamo Bay detainees. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1328635.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1328635.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:34 EST A man from Tajikistan seeking his freedom from the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is challenging a practice among federal judges here who are short-circuiting the cases of some long-time detainees. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1326739.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1326739.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:02 EST Out of work and willing to relocate? McDonald's is advertising for an assistant manager for its sole franchise in Cuba -- serving up burgers and fries that sometimes feed detainees at the prison camps at Guantánamo Bay. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1312758.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1312758.html Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:37 EST Six former Guantánamo Bay detainees brought to Palau for resettlement have received a warm official welcome, but a plan to deport Bangladeshi workers could halve this Pacific Island nation's already-tiny Muslim community, making integration harder. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1307250.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1307250.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:02 EDT An al Qaeda sleeper agent who admitted having contact with the alleged mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks was sentenced to more than eight years in prison Thursday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1305022.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1305022.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:02 EDT Even as some Americans await the arrival of their swine flu vaccines, the Pentagon has decided to vaccinate both soldiers and terror suspects at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1302275.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1302275.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:37 EDT Seven former Guantánamo Bay detainees asked the High Court in London on Tuesday to reject a government request to use secret sessions to hear allegations that Britain was complicit in their torture overseas. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1294146.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1294146.html Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT The Uighur Muslim detainees whose fate is to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court have learned the news. From the BBC. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1293165.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1293165.html Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:07 EDT The U.S. military in Afghanistan kept no medical records on a Sudanese suspect who was captured in a March 2002 raid on an al Qaeda safehouse, a Marine prosecutor said Wednesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1292846.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1292846.html Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:57 EDT Two military judges gavel the war court into session Wednesday to hear a pair of Pentagon requests to postpone the al Qaeda foot soldier cases of two alleged war criminals from Sudan. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1291809.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1291809.html Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:57 EDT The military can comply with a White House order to empty the detention center and clear all 221 war-on-terror captives off this remote base "with 10 days notice,'' the prison camps commander said Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1290425.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1290425.html Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:52 EDT With U.S.-Sudan policy in flux, the Pentagon on Monday airlifted a planeload of lawyers and other staff to this remote base for hearings in the war court cases of two long-held Sudanese captives accused of working for al Qaeda. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1344664.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1344664.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:37 EST Military prosecutors said Friday they plan to seek new charges against the alleged mastermind of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1342310.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1342310.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:21 EST New York juries are often loath to impose the death penalty, even for terrorists. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1340106.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1340106.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:43 EST From opposite ends of the globe, President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder firmly rejected criticism Wednesday of the planned New York trial of the professed Sept. 11 mastermind and predicted Khalid Sheik Mohammed would be exposed as a murderous coward, convicted and executed. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1339825.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1339825.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:07 EST The rights of a Guantánamo detainee facing trial in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa were not violated when the military took away his uniformed lawyers, a judge ruled Wednesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1331792.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1331792.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:30 EST The federal government argued before the Supreme Court Friday that Canadian courts do not have the right to order authorities to seek the repatriation of the youngest detainee held by the U.S. at Guantánamo Bay. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1328635.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1328635.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:31 EST A man from Tajikistan seeking his freedom from the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is challenging a practice among federal judges here who are short-circuiting the cases of some long-time detainees. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1292295.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1292295.html Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:54 EDT The Supreme Court's decision Tuesday to weigh whether a federal judge has the power to release Guantánamo Bay prisoners into the United States continues a legal tug of war begun when the Bush administration opened the overseas detention camp. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1286594.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1286594.html Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:36 EDT A federal judge ruled Friday in a case on detainees at Guantánamo Bay that the U.S. government can maintain the secrecy of portions of some records that allegedly describe torture and abuse. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1334203.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1334203.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:57 EST The Obama administration may buy a near-empty prison in rural northwestern Illinois to house detainees from Guantánamo Bay along with federal inmates, a White House official said Saturday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1332622.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1332622.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:16 EST Republican lawmakers Friday bitterly criticized President Barack Obama's decision to try accused terrorists in the United States and warned against moving detainees to South Carolina. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1328594.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1328594.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:33 EST President Barack Obama's order to close the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, military prison by Jan. 22 was followed by a series of mistakes and missteps by his administration that will delay the prison's closing for months, according to a report from a policy organization with close ties to the White House. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1318031.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1318031.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:34 EST It's one year before South Carolinians elect a new governor and the possibility that the Charleston Brig could house Guantánamo detainees is already roiling the race. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1291809.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1291809.html Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:56 EDT The military can comply with a White House order to empty the detention center and clear all 221 war-on-terror captives off this remote base "with 10 days notice,'' the prison camps commander said Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1269871.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1269871.html Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:37 EDT Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday he is worried lawmakers' opposition to bringing Guantánamo Bay detainees to U.S. prisons could hurt the effort to close the detention center. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1254570.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1254570.html Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:06 EDT Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Sunday morning news programs that trying to close down the detention center at Guantánamo Bay has proved more complicated than anticipated. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1237834.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1237834.html Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:45 EDT Kansas Sens. Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts said Wednesday they were "confident" that terrorist detainees from Guantánamo would not be relocated to Fort Leavenworth. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1346598.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1346598.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:12 EST An Algerian court on Sunday acquitted two men once held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who were returned home to face trial on links to terrorism, their defense lawyer said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1344610.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1344610.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:37 EST A federal judge Friday ordered the Obama administration to free a long-held Guantánamo captive who fled his native Algeria years ago and kicked around Europe as a construction worker for a decade before his capture in Pakistan. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1344671.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1344671.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:52 EST Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said Friday that prosecuting terror suspects in federal court in New York rather than a military tribunal jeopardizes the safety of Americans. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1338879.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1338879.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:37 EST Guards didn't go through the prison camps Wednesday and unpin the presidential closure order from detainee bulletin boards. And the detention center didn't put in an urgent call for reinforcements.