The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the repatriation of 12 detainees from the infamous Guantanamo Bay Prison to their home countries. The prisoners were sent to Somalia, Yemen and Afghanistan. ...
It as announced that President Obama plans on sending some of the Guantanamo Bay prisoners to prisons in Illinois. The prisoners, alledged terrorists, will be held in Thompson Prison which lies 150 miles west of Chicago. It’s in the sticks, an extremely rural area...
Spies, spies and super spies, Oh well whats an ex-seal or a delta force guy got to do after leaving the military. Could the problem be the CIA normally recruit from the Ivy league universities and needed to use...
Amnesty International has urged the Italian government to ensure that former Guantanamo detainees receive fair trials in Italy. Tunisian citizens, Adel Ben Mabrouk and Riadh Nasseri were incarcerated in the Guantanamo Prison for seven years without charge before being...
There is a storm brewing in Canada and I don.t mean a winter storm. A parliamentary committee is looking into allegations of prisoner abuse of detainees handed to Afghan authorities by Canadian...
Despite good intentions and a majority Democratic Congress, President Obama has now confirmed that the January deadly for Guantanamo closure will not be met. President Obama signed an executive order during...
In 2005, Vice President Dick Cheney told the American people that all the detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay were "bad people." Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld told the American people in 2002 that Gitmo would hold "the worst of the worst." And President...
The U.S. government will pay $1.2 million in a settlement to five Muslim immigrants who were unjustly detained after 9/11. The 5 men were housed in a Brooklyn, N.Y. prison. According to...
A former language and cultural adviser to the Canadian Forces says that he witnessed at least two cases of individuals being labeled Taliban due to poor translators. Jack Layton, Leader of Canada's New...
The Canadian Gouvernment has had a few set-backs in regards to Omar Khadr. Khadr was captured on the battlefield in Afghanistan when he was 15. He is accused of having killed an American soldier and...
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President Obama has made another move to distance himself from Bush policies on interrogation. He has approved the creation of an elite team of interrogators to question key terrorism suspects This elite...
A 26 year old Al Quaeda militant, working in Pakistan, was captured in November in Pakistan. He is now reportedly in U.S. custody and co-operating. Bryant Neal Vinas from Long Island, NY plead guilty to...
Human Rights Watch called on the Iranian government to stop framing government critics. They allege that the people in power in Iran are using torture and coercive tactics to wring false confessions out of those arrested. They go on to say that the authorities are...
The first Executive Order signed by the new President was the order to close Guantanamo Bay within one year. The new Administration is realizing that this may be harder than thought. Congress has...
Sri Lankan government claimed that most to the detainees would be resettled within six months. However, senior military officials told that 80% of the people will be there in a year time. Further, permanent...