Guantanamo Bay

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1. 10 Things to Know for Wednesday

   Tue, 30 Apr 2013

   Tamerlan Tsarnaev under surveillance during his six-month visit to Dagestan. 5. OBAMA PROMISES RENEWED EFFORT TO CLOSE GUANTANAMO Years after his original campaign promise, Obama's comments follow an extensive hunger strike at the detention facility
2. Obama Offers Praise, Complaints for Republicans

   Tue, 30 Apr 2013

   working on an immigration overhaul. He said he wanted to work with Congress to close the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay . He then decried Congress as dysfunctional. He cast Republicans as potential allies, then criticized their obstruction
3. Obama Vows Again to Close Prison at Guantanamo Bay

   Tue, 30 Apr 2013

   President Barack Obama says he's going to try again to close down the prison for terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay , Cuba. Obama says he's asked a team of officials to review the issue and will take it back to Congress again. He told a news
4. Medical Reinforcements Arrive at Guantanamo Bay

   Mon, 29 Apr 2013

   Medical reinforcements have arrived at Guantanamo Bay to help deal with a hunger strike among prisoners at the U.S. base in Cuba. Lt. Col. Samuel House said Monday that the roughly
5. Fight Against Terror Takes Pals to the White House

   Mon, 29 Apr 2013

   drone strikes and handling of terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay , Cuba, along with every other important legal issue America's detention and interrogation policies and the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, whose closure remains an unrealized
6. Canadian Ex-Gitmo Detainee to Appeal Convictions

   Sun, 28 Apr 2013

   the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay plans to appeal his U.S. terrorism the last Western detainee at Guantanamo , was transferred last September eligible to return to Canada from Guantanamo Bay last October under terms of a
7. Fight Against Terror Takes Pals to the White House

   Sat, 27 Apr 2013

   drone strikes and handling of terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay , Cuba, along with every other important legal issue America's detention and interrogation policies and the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, whose closure remains an unrealized

Videos

1. 
   Obama Still Wants to Close Guantanamo Bay Facility

   Tue, 30 Apr 2013

   surprise to me that we've got problems in Guantanamo which wire. When I was campaigning elected in 2008 I said we need to close Guantanamo . I continue to believe that we've got to close Guantanamo . I think well. I think it is critical

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   It is not a surprise to me that we've got problems in Guantanamo which -- wire. When I was campaigning in 2007 and 2008. And when I was elected in 2008 I said we need to close Guantanamo . I continue to believe that we've got to close Guantanamo . I think well. -- I think it is critical for us to understand that. Guantanamo is not necessary. To keep America safe. It is expensive. Did is. Inefficient. Did. Hurts us. In terms of our international standing

   fact that there are a number of the folks four currently in Guantanamo who -- the courts have said. Could be returned. To their country of origin or its potentially a third country. I'm gonna go back after us I've asked my team to review everything that's currently being done in Guantanamo . Everything that we can do administratively and I'm gonna re engage with congress. -- try to make the case that this is

   was somehow that. That we had to create a special facility like Guantanamo and we couldn't. Handle listening in a normal conventional fashion I understand. That reaction. But we're -- over a decade out. We
2. 
   Will Guantanamo Bay Prison Ever Close?

   Mon, 7 Mar 2011

   end its plans to close Guantanamo Bay the detention center Obama said He would close gitmo one year after it was emerging consensus that. Gitmo really needs to be there Allow for prisoners in Guantanamo to move to the United

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   legal circles has changed on this now there's -- emerging consensus that. Gitmo really needs to be there. -- an and that in reporting it was is right on personally most interest thing. The event logic people have now is that because -- talent -- and open has been transparent it's been. Looked -- so closely by NGOs by lawmakers -- journalists it's a much more transparent placement was a couple of years ago. And -- to close it there really isn't a better solution politically there's not much of a chance that Republicans in congress would. Allow for prisoners in Guantanamo to move to the United States legally -- -- move people to -- ground in Afghanistan or. Other bases outside of the mainland US. The prisoners would lose the rights of they have so no one likes Guantanamo it's not the people are -- enthusiastic but the feeling is it's better than anything else. You mentioned the story about how

   new rules that will allow for even more military commission. Proceedings at Guantanamo so it's not just that is not -- close to that you're gonna see the pace of activity there accelerate pretty rapidly
3. 
   Protests Against Guantanamo Prison

   Thu, 11 Jan 2007

   arrives at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. On detainees from the has become the iconic image of Guantanamo inmates in Orange jumpsuits sometimes cities around the world against Guantanamo and what it represents. M outside

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   2000 to to a plane arrives at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. On -- detainees from the US led war in Afghanistan which followed the 9/11 attacks. Since then hundreds of foreign nationals suspected by the united states of terrorism have been held in the camp. And this has become the iconic image of Guantanamo inmates in Orange jumpsuits sometimes blindfolded and gagged. The Bush Administration says the detainees -- mortal enemies of the United States too

   on this fifth anniversary protests in several cities around the world against Guantanamo and what it represents. -- M outside the US embassy in London. And here in Melbourne Australia -- demonstrators gathered to demand the release of an Australian citizen in custody. -- 265. Weeks. And from Afghanistan where -- began a simple message. Guantanamo isn't helping. This is something that easy place to the hands of -- kinda. Against to war against. The United Nations has led international calls to close the detention center. Nearly 400 people are still in captivity. Some of them high profile prisoners linked to al-Qaeda. -- been held -- secret CIA prisons elsewhere until it was sent to Guantanamo last year. In a few months time military tribunals that -- to Begin putting some prisoners on trial. But this place remains
4. 
   David Plouffe on Guantanamo Bay

   Sun, 10 Apr 2011

   About Guantanamo . Well I'm disappointed in the tribunals well first of all He would He reform military commissions has has ended torture. Obvious

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   About Guantanamo . Well I'm disappointed in the tribunals well first of all He would He reform military commissions has has ended torture. Obvious --
5. 
   Inside the Wire at Guantanamo Bay

   Tue, 24 Jun 2008

   Monday morning at Guantanamo Bay . That detainee out of his for this is where interrogations at Guantanamo Bay take place and they may. Look joint interrogations group in Guantanamo Bay . He's the man who runs all

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   is Paul -- he's the director of the joint interrogations group in Guantanamo Bay . He's the man who runs all the interrogations of detainees here that He -- He doesn't like to use the word interrogation. Interrogations and negative. What would you call what you do here oh we are we have evolved -- to custodial interviews. Paul -- has been interrogating or interviewing or questioning America's enemies or suspected enemies for 35 years going back to Vietnam. He is fiercely proud of his work at Guantanamo today. When people think about interrogations -- part come -- they think about -- I think that what people forget is that.

   say roadside bombs from Iraq and Afghanistan are actually brought here to Guantanamo . Where detainees are asked about their designs and who might have helped make them. Are you getting anything good it is there's still point in interrogating. -- -- Now because. They know who's still out there. They know how they do business. For -- restaurant many Americans here at Guantanamo Bay getting that information is tough business but we're. That's what people take -- from the United States continues to be at risk if it. Does seem to be quite aware of it. Then maybe that's what those of us who are doing this. Really want I am not any way disappointed when I go home. And my neighbor doesn't know or Guantanamo is and never heard of -- war because that's our job. To keep them. What will be his doctors be watching this
6. 
   Illinois Leaders Herald GITMO Detainee Transfer

   Tue, 15 Dec 2009

   To incarcerate. Detainees from Guantanamo Bay as well as the site of a new federal been clear that we need to close Guantanamo . It was a decision that was made our country to make certain that Guantanamo is phased out. And the threat

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   For several years now it's been clear that we need to close Guantanamo . It was a decision that was made under the Bush Administration. A decision supported by the secretary of defense Robert Gates supported

   believe this is in service to our country to make certain that Guantanamo is phased out. And the threat that it currently poses to us around the world is eliminated. But secondly this is a

   People understand that we can safely and securely hold fewer than 100 Guantanamo detainees. And fifteen or 16100 prisons prisoners in the Federal Bureau of Prisons we can do this. We've done it before and
7. 
   'The Note': Hitting 60 and 'Gitmo North'

   Tue, 15 Dec 2009

   be headed there. Other enemy detainees coming from Guantanamo after the taunting corrections center is about a 150 first official act as president you promised to close Guantanamo Bay . If any backlash here. He definitely is from Republicans

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   types of detainees will be headed there. Other enemy detainees coming from Guantanamo -- after the taunting corrections center is about a 150 miles west of Chicago in western Illinois and essentially the White House