Behind missed deadline for closing Gitmo: US struggles to get countries to take its prisoners President Barack Obama is now confirming what many ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama suggested on Wednesday the self-professed mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks would be convicted and put ...
British judge: Some evidence can be kept secret in Guantanamo detainees' suit against UK British spies can keep some evidence secret from former Guantanamo prisoners who are suing the government for alleged complicity in their detention, a British judge ruled Wednesday, the ...
Ill congressman Manzullo says 'savage religion' comment about terrorists misunderstood An Illinois congressman says his comment that suspected terrorists detained at Guantanamo Bay follow a "savage religion" has been misinterpreted. U.S. Rep. Donald Manzullo told WREX-TV in Rockford, Ill., that alleged terrorists ...
The US Senate on Tuesday defeated a measure seen as hampering US President Barack Obama's administration plans to try suspected terrorists in civilian courts in New York. Republican Senator James Inhofe's amendment, which was defeated in a 57-43 vote, aimed to prevent ...
The Senate on Tuesday adopted the latest in a continuing series of major budget increases to provide medical care for veterans. The move came as the Senate passed, by a rare 100-0 vote, a $134 billion spending bill for veterans programs and ...
THOMSON, Illinois (Reuters) - Moving detainees from Guantanamo Bay to a largely unused prison in this hamlet would create much-needed jobs, said officials who toured the rural prison on Monday, dismissing widespread concern about risks to security from America's sworn enemies and ...
Rural Ill. town would rather have Gitmo detainees than struggle with chronic unemployment Some folks in this dying Mississippi River town would rather take their chances with suspected terrorists in their backyard than watch their neighbors continue to move away in despair ...
The Thomson Correctional Center, is seen Monday, Nov. 16, 2009, in Thomson, Ill. Federal officials are at a prison in northwest Illinois that the government might buy to house Guantanamo Bay detainees. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) Copyright 2009 AP News
Colo. officials say US gov hasn't called on using prisons for Gitmo detainees Colorado officials say they haven't been contacted by the federal government regarding housing detainees from Guantanamo Bay in the state. Federal officials on Monday toured an empty prison in ...
A near-empty Illinois prison is among the US locations being considered to house transferred Guantanamo detainees, officials announced Sunday. Less than 100 detainees would be housed in a separate facility within the maximum security prison, said Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, the second-highest ...
Dozens of Guantanamo detainees are getting their day in court after years of waiting In courtrooms barred to the public, dozens of terror suspects are pleading for their freedom from the Guantanamo Bay prison, sometimes even testifying on their own behalf by ...
