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Hunger strike, Yemeni dilemma could spur Guantanamo closure plans
A 100-day-old hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay prison for suspected terrorists has agitated international human rights advocates anew, prompting fresh calls worldwide for closure of the detention center that President Obama vowed to shutter more than...
Tags: Yemen, Government, Justice and Rights, Religion and Belief, Arabian Peninsula
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Analysis: Once a beacon, Obama under fire over civil liberties
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - He may have been the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago. He may have written a book extolling constitutional values in a democracy. And he may have...Tags: White House, John F. Kennedy, Yemen, Values, Justice and Rights
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U.S. says looking to revive vacant Guantanamo policy job -Holder
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. government intends to revive a vacant position coordinating policy for the military prison camp for foreign terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and is looking at candidates, Attorney General Eric Holder said...Tags: White House, Prisons, National Government, Government, U.S. Department of State
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First 100 days: Accomplishments
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times Report card President Barack Obama has used his broad popularity, a driving ambition and sweeping agenda to move America in a new direction. Although his administration has accomplished much, his performance has not always...Tags: General Motors Corp., Barack Obama, Children, Los Angeles Times, Cuba
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Obama has leverage to get his way on Guantanamo
President Barack Obama's renewed request to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, confirms what the detainees have already shown with their hunger strike: Permanent detention at the U.S. naval station isn't viable as a matter of practicality or...Tags: Prisons, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, Politics, Libya
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Letters: Debating Guantanamo
Re "Obama's Gitmo woes," Opinion, May 5 As a fan of Doyle McManus, I was disappointed to read his claim that most of the detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay were anti-American extremists when they were apprehended. Our own government has...Tags: Lindsey O. Graham, Prisons, John McCain, Judaism, Wars and Interventions
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The worst human rights violator in Cuba
For decades, American politicians have denounced human rights violations in Cuba. With good cause, they've accused the Castro brothers of rounding up political prisoners, torturing them, and detaining them for years with no charges filed and no access...
Tags: National Defense Authorization Act, Prisons, U.S. Congress, Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice
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The Guantanamo dilemma
When he ran for president, Barack Obama laid out the case against the detention of inmates at Guantanamo Bay: "It is expensive. It is inefficient. It hurts us in terms of our international standing. It lessens cooperation with our allies on...
Tags: White House, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, Yemen, Elections
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The cost of Guantanamo
The hunger strike by inmates protesting conditions at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba is forcing the Obama administration to revisit its policy of indefinite detention without trial for terrorist suspects. It's about time. As Mr. Obama noted...Tags: Prisons, Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Congress, Career and Workplace, Central Intelligence Agency
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A turning point in terror prosecutions
The conviction of a former Baltimore County man in a deadly hotel bombing in Indonesia is seen as a turning point in the long-delayed prosecution of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay.
Majid Shoukat Khan, who on Wednesday admitted to conspiring with Osama...Tags: Pervez Musharraf, Jakarta (Indonesia), Murder, Trials, The Pentagon
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From Owings Mills High School to a cell at Guantanamo
A studious young man with an aptitude for computers, Majid Shoukat Khan was working as a database administrator in a high-rise office building in Tysons Corner, Va., on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
After American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the...Tags: Graduation, Jakarta (Indonesia), Immigration, Electronic Data Systems Corporation, Catonsville
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9/11 defendants refuse to participate in arraignment
Before self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was brought into court Saturday, Carole Reuben of Potomac said his arraignment would mark "the beginning of the end of the process." Her son, Todd Hayes Reuben, was a passenger on American...Tags: Bombings, Aircraft Hijacking, Osama bin Laden, Justice System, U.S. Army
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