Ben Fox

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Guantanamo prisoner in standoff as transfer stalls

Ben Fox · September 9, 2014 1:04 pm

Estela de Carlotto, president of Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, right, and her grandson Ignacio Hurban hold a news conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014. A provincial music teacher in Argentina, Hurban, is making his first public appearance since he was dramatically identified as the long-sought grandson of the country's leading human rights activist, Estela de Carlotto. The activist spent 36 years searching for the child taken from her daughter, who was executed by the military during the country's military dictatorship. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Grandson lost during Argentina ‘dirty war’ emerges

Ben Fox · August 8, 2014 11:08 pm

Estela de Carlotto, president of Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, right, reacts before a news conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, August 5, 2014. Carlotto, one of the most prominent human rights activists in Argentina, has located the grandson born to her daughter Laura in captivity during the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976-1983. Laura was kidnapped and killed by the military in August 1978. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

DNA test ends a mystery of Argentina’s ‘dirty war’

Ben Fox · August 6, 2014 12:46 am

A woman walks by a graffiti that reads in Spanish "Vultures," in reference to the dispute between the Argentine government and a U.S. hedge fund, known locally as "vulture funds," in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, August 4, 2014. The full graffiti reads "out vultures." The collapse of talks with U.S. creditors sent Argentina into its second debt default in 13 years and raised questions about what comes next for financial markets and the South American nation's staggering economy. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Argentina loses bid to oust debt dispute mediator

Ben Fox · August 4, 2014 10:43 pm

In this Pentagon-approved sketch by court artist Janet Hamlin, presiding judge, Navy Capt. J. Kirk Waits addresses Hadi al Iraqi, who presses a button on his microphone so he can respond, during his arraignment at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, Wednesday, June 18, 2014. Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi was arraigned on five war crimes charges, largely for allegedly organizing attacks on U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan. He faces up to life in prison. (AP Photo/Janet Hamlin, Pool)

National Security

Iraqi faces charges after 7 years at Guantanamo

Ben Fox · June 18, 2014 10:34 pm

In this Pentagon-approved sketch by court artist Janet Hamlin, the Sept. 11 accused co-conspirators attend a pretrial hearing the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, Monday, June 16, 2014. Defense council James Herrington is at podium addressing presiding Judge James Pohl. The accused, right to left: Khalid Sheikh Mohmmad, Walid bin Attash, Ramzi bin al shibh, Aziz Ali, Mustafa al Hawsawi. Lawyers for Guantanamo prisoners charged in the Sept. 11 attack say the FBI has questioned more people who work as support staff on their legal teams than previously disclosed, a development that may prompt a new detour in an already snarled case as the war crimes tribunal reconvened Monday at this U.S. base. (AP Photo/Janet Hamlin, Pool)

National Security

FBI questions disrupt 9/11 case at Guantanamo

Ben Fox · June 16, 2014 8:34 pm

FILE - In this photo Nov. 20, 2013 file photo reviewed by the U.S. military, a U.S. Navy nurse stands next to a chair with restraints, used for force-feeding, and a tray displaying nutritional shakes, a tube for feeding through the nose, and lubricants, including a jar of olive oil, during a tour of the detainee hospital at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Attorneys for a Syrian prisoner have begun studying hours of video showing him being removed from his cell, placed in a restraint chair and fed by a tube with liquid nutrients. They are looking for evidence of what he has portrayed to them as abusive force-feeding, akin to torture, during the months that he has participated in a hunger strike that drew the attention of President Barack Obama and led to a renewed effort to close the prison. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

National Security

Videos open window on Guantanamo hunger strike

Ben Fox · June 14, 2014 7:38 pm

Guantanamo prisoners set to leave amid trade furor

Ben Fox · June 8, 2014 3:33 pm

Official: US moving ahead with Guantanamo closure

Official: US moving ahead with Guantanamo closure

Ben Fox · June 5, 2014 10:48 pm

Soldier exchange aside, Guantanamo hurdles persist

Soldier exchange aside, Guantanamo hurdles persist

Ben Fox · June 1, 2014 8:09 pm

National Security

Report on CIA interrogations shadows Gitmo trials

Ben Fox · April 24, 2014 4:00 am

National Security

Guantanamo trial in 9/11 veers off track again

Ben Fox · April 18, 2014 12:51 am