In 2006, three detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison allegedly hung themselves, at least that was the official story from the Bush administration. For that to be true, however, the three men would have had to shove cloths shoved down their throats, put masks on to...
The president of the American Bar Association (ABA), Carolyn Lamm, has called an ad posted on the internet by the organization Keep America Safe, founded by the daughter of former Vice President Richard 'Dick'...
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North Korea has detained a US citizen for illegally crossing into their territory. The unidentified man crossed by land from China. This brings to two US citizens currently being held by the N.Korean authorities for illegally entering their country. " The official...
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A federal appeals court panel on Tuesday strongly backed the powers of the government to hold Guantánamo detainees and other noncitizens suspected of committing terrorist acts. In a sweeping opinion, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the...
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New Delhi: Back from his before statement US president Barack Obama has suspended the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to Yemen in the wake of the country's links to the failed Christmas Day attempt to blow up a...
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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...
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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...
opinion by Babel-Fish | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 185 views | 24 recommendations | 3 comments
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...
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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 the New York Times, the prison held hundreds of...
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...