About a dozen retired generals and admirals, trying to add momentum to President
Barack Obama’s effort to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison, are accusing former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz of scaremongering about the dangers of closing it.
On Sunday, following the revelation of the identity of one of two Uzbeks released from Guantánamo
to take up a new life in the Republic of Ireland, I published a letter
from Guantánamo written by this man, Oybek Jabbarov, and also included
a statement by his lawyer, Michael J.
On August 24, Mohammed Jawad, an Afghan prisoner who was, perhaps,
as young as 12 when he was seized after a grenade attack in Kabul in
December 2002 and transported to Guantánamo, was finally freed after his habeas corpus petition was granted,
and returned to Afghanistan, where he was welcomed by
A bill that could go to the Senate floor as early as next week would make it impossible for President Barack Obama to move any Guantanamo prisoners to the U.S. for any reason, effectively blocking his plan to close the facility by January.
The bar on all such transfers was written into the Senate version of the Defense appropriations bill passed by the Appropriations Committee last week and is stricter than current law, which allows prisoners to be brought to the United States for trial as long as Congress is notified 45 days in advance of any potential risks.
In an exclusive interview with the BBC,
Daniel Fried came across as an eminently reasonable man placed in a
disturbingly unreasonable position by his bosses.
Today, as we pause to remember those who died in the terrorist attacks in the US on 11 September 2001,
we should also remember that much work still needs to be done to
address the fallout from the Bush administration's extraordinary
response to the attacks.
NEW YORK – Mohammed al-Hanashi was a 31-year-old Yemeni citizen who
was held at Guantánamo Bay without charge for seven years. On June 3,
while I was visiting Guantánamo with other journalists, the press
office there issued a terse announcement that al-Hanashi had had been
found dead in his cell – an “apparent suicide.”
NEW YORK - Since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that inmates at Guantanamo Bay have a right to go to federal court to challenge their detention, detainees have filed more than 150 such lawsuits.
Thirty-five of these cases have now been completed. And of these, federal judges have ruled that 29 prisoners are being unlawfully detained.
The growing caseload of habeas corpus petitions has been seen as a contest between executive authority and judicial independence.
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear the Conservative government's appeal of orders to seek the return from a Guantanamo prison of 22-year-old Omar Khadr.
In addition, the high court agreed to a federal request to weigh the matter on an expedited basis, setting a date of Nov. 13 and raising the prospect of the court hearing the high-stakes case during a threatened federal election. The Liberals have already raised Khadr's treatment as a reason to reject the Conservative government.
