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Military, DOJ officials defend Gitmo practices at Senate hearing on detainees
Senior US military and Justice Department officials defended Guantanamo prison and US policy towards terror detainees Wednesday at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Citing continued uncertainty about their status, Committee Chairman Arlen Spect (More) |
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Gonzales says released Gitmo detainees returned to fighting against US
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Wednesday that a dozen former Guantanamo detainees have gone back to fighting against the US since their release, as evidenced by their recapture or confirmed death. Gonzales' statement echos similar re (More) |
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Specter to open hearings on rights of Gitmo detainees
US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter opens hearings Wednesday on the legal rights of detainees held by the US at Guantanamo Bay. Part of the agenda for the hearings is to examine the due process rights of the prisoners and the auth (More) |
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Rumsfeld Guantanamo briefing [US DOD]
US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld briefing on the military detention center at Guanatanamo Bay and other subjects, June 14, 2005 . Excerpt:Allegations of abuse at Guantanamo, as at any other U.S. military facility, have been thoroughly investig (More) |
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Rumsfeld defends prisoner treatment, says no reason to close Guantanamo Bay
US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in a Pentagon news conference Tuesday that the US government had gone to great length and enormous expense to ensure that terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay were well-treated and that there was no reason t (More) |
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Afghan clergy demand apology for Guantanamo Koran abuse
The Ulamas Council, the conference of Islamic clergy in Afghanistan, passed a resolution on Tuesday demanding an apology from the US for incidents of abuse of the Koran at Guantanamo. While the Newsweek story that initially sparked deadly rioting in (More) |
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Lawyers claim juveniles still being held at Guantanamo
Lawyers for detainees being held at Guantanamo say as many as six of those being held were captured before they turned 18 . One lawyer says his client was not even 15 when captured, and was physically abused. According to the military, only three j (More) |
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US senators slam Gitmo interrogation techniques revealed by log
US senators Chuck Hagel and Dianne Feinstein have responded to a newly released log of a Guantanamo interrogation with anger and bewilderment. Hagel, a Vietnam Veteran, said the practices reflected in the record telling of prisoner Mohammed al-Kh (More) |
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GOP Armed Services chair says White House divided on Guantanamo closing
US Representative Duncan Hunter , chairman of the House Armed Services Committee , said in an interview with Fox News Sunday that there are members of the Bush administration who want to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp to end the debate over al (More) |
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GOP Senator calls for Guantanamo closure
Republican Senator Mel Martinez has become the first major GOP lawmaker to call for the closure of the military terror detention camp at Guantamao Bay . Speaking Friday in Florida, Martinez, a former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in th (More) |
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968.
Pay a virtual visit to The King Center in Atlanta.
