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 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:27:30 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1322972.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1322972.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:46 EST U.S. officials are reviewing which Guantánamo Bay detainees could face trial in American courts and the first indications could come next week, the U.S. attorney general said Sunday. 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/322461.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1339/story/322461.html Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:19 EDT The prison camps' census and more (updated 10/31/09) 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/679518.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1339/story/679518.html Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:37 EDT Habeas corpus scorecard 8-30 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/679509.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1339/story/679509.html Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:30 EDT Who's Who guide 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/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/1377/story/803751.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/803751.html Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:21 EST The Pentagon on Monday begins more hearings for the proposed death penalty trial of reputed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed, even as President-elect Barack Obama's transition team and the Bush administration work to possibly close the Navy base prison camps. http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/930542.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/930542.html Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:53 EST The Pentagon has placed its newest camp strictly out of bounds for both media and military defense attorneys. http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/375017.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/375017.html Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:01 EST The first surprise may be that the most damning, enduring images of the prison camps at Guantánamo were taken by a U.S. sailor. It was his job, on assignment to an elite Defense Department unit called Combat Camera at the remote Navy base that day the first detainees arrived Jan. 11, 2002. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1314856.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1314856.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:53 EST A Guantánamo Bay prisoner who has been on hunger strike for more than four years is in critical danger from malnutrition, his lawyers said Tuesday. U.S. officials insist his weight loss is not an immediate health risk. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1314591.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1314591.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:22 EST A Kuwaiti Airways engineer whom the U.S. military has accused of being a key aide to Osama bin Laden has been moved to the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, detention center's collective prison camp for detainees cleared for release. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1313758.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1313758.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:09 EST The defense secretary and attorney general are opposing an attempt to prohibit Guantánamo detainees from having civilian trials in the United States. 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/1305387.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1305387.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:57 EDT President Barack Obama brought back Bush-era military trials for terror suspects at Guantánamo Bay on Wednesday by signing new rules into law that will give detainees stronger legal rights in court. 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/1302289.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1302289.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:22 EDT The Arenac, Mich., County Board of Commissioners changed its collective mind Monday morning. In a fashion. 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/1292888.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1292888.html Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:37 EDT Aiming to break through congressional opposition to White House plans to shutter the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, a group of retired generals and war veterans have launched a national campaign to rally support for closing the prison. 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/1291105.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1291105.html Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:22 EDT The City Council doesn't want terrorist suspects now held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to come to this northeast Michigan town, voting on that sentiment Monday but not fully ruling out the possibility. 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/story/1286594.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1286594.html Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:37 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/story/1286343.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1286343.html Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:02 EDT Britain's High Court ruled Friday that the government must disclose secret details of a former Guantánamo Bay detainee's alleged torture. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1283501.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1283501.html Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:07 EDT Here in the land of limbo, the news of President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize landed with more of a whimper than wild enthusiasm among those waging their part in the war on terror. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1277709.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1277709.html Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:23 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/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1278415.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1278415.html Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:42 EDT A government official says three Swedish adults and a child have been released after being held by Pakistani authorities for more than a month. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1275646.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1275646.html Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Professor Noam Chomsky may be among America's most enduring anti-war activists. But the leftist intellectual's anthology of post 9/11 commentary is taboo at Guantánamo's prison camp library. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1275325.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1275325.html Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:57 EDT South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Friday that he'd attached an amendment to an appropriations bill that would prohibit the Obama administration from spending money on the prosecution and trial of the accused terrorists before U.S. civilian federal judges. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1313758.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1313758.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:09 EST The defense secretary and attorney general are opposing an attempt to prohibit Guantánamo detainees from having civilian trials in the United States. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1305387.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1305387.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:57 EDT President Barack Obama brought back Bush-era military trials for terror suspects at Guantánamo Bay on Wednesday by signing new rules into law that will give detainees stronger legal rights in court. 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/1275325.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1275325.html Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:57 EDT South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Friday that he'd attached an amendment to an appropriations bill that would prohibit the Obama administration from spending money on the prosecution and trial of the accused terrorists before U.S. civilian federal judges. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1239065.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1239065.html Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:38 EDT A federal judge late Thursday ordered the Obama administration to set free a 50-year-old Kuwaiti aeronautics engineer who had been held as a war crimes suspect at Guantánamo since 2002. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1236901.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1236901.html Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:43 EDT The Obama administration Wednesday broadly defended as constitutional its predecessor's format for military commissions at Guantánamo but said it would seek to delay next week's sanity hearings in a Sept. 11 case while it revamps its war on terror prosecution strategy. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1229426.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1229426.html Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:27 EDT A federal appeals court late Friday agreed to consider an alleged 9/11 plotter's plea to halt his sanity hearing slated for Sept. 21-25 at the war court at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1221242.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1221242.html Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:41 EDT In one federal courtroom last month, a defense lawyer argued that the U.S. military had coerced a false confession out of a 50-year-old Kuwaiti who has been at Guantánamo for seven years. 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/globe/story/1227894.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1227894.html Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:28 EDT With hardly any debate, a powerful Senate committee Thursday approved President Barack Obama's $128 billion request for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for the budget year beginning in October. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1207289.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1207289.html Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:35 EDT The U.S. government on Friday sent two Syrian men from the prison camps at Guantánamo to resettlement in Portugal after years as war on terror captives at the U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1167861.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1167861.html Sat, 01 Aug 2009 14:19 EDT On May 20, the premier of Bermuda was paying his respects at the White House when he offered a lifeline to the Obama administration's struggle to find countries for some of Guantánamo's most stigmatized detainees. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1131895.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/1131895.html Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:30 EDT Even as the White House pledges to empty the prison camps at Guantánamo Bay, a 30-year-old prisoner is so afraid of returning to his native Tajikistan that he is asking to stay at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1318853.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1318853.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:18 EST The Democratic-controlled Senate on Thursday turned back a GOP-led effort to bar Sept. 11 terrorists from being prosecuted in civilian federal courts. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1318031.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1318031.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:30 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/story/1315122.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1315122.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:05 EST An Italian judge found 23 Americans and two Italians guilty Wednesday in the kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect, delivering the first legal convictions anywhere in the world against people involved in the CIA's extraordinary renditions program. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1313929.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1313929.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:31 EST The White House says detainees at Guantánamo Bay are not yet receiving vaccinations against the swine flu.