Tag: Guantanamo Bay

Shaker Aamer, a Saudi who emerged as a defiant leader among prisoners during nearly 14 years of confinement on the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba has been released to join his family in Britain. (International Committee of the Red Cross via AP)

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Controversial detainee freed from Guantanamo Bay

Charles Hoskinson · October 30, 2015 1:10 pm

"The United States is grateful to the government of Mauritania for its willingness to support ongoing U.S. efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility," Peter Cook said. (AP file photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Pentagon transfers prisoner in race to close Gitmo

Jacqueline Klimas · October 29, 2015 1:34 pm

The administration is working to release as many cleared prisoners as possible before 2017 to help Obama make good on a campaign promise to close Guantanamo Bay. (AP Photo)Â

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Gitmo detainee transferred as admin tries to close prison

Jacqueline Klimas · September 22, 2015 9:12 pm

His administration must submit a plan and cost estimates for doing so to Capitol Hill early next year. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, Pool, File)

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White House blames Congress for Obama’s inability to close Gitmo

Nicole Duran · September 17, 2015 6:29 pm

A Guantanamo Bay detainee has been transferred to Morocco, the Pentagon announced on Thursday. (AP Photo)

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Guantanamo detainee transferred to Morocco

Jacqueline Klimas · September 17, 2015 2:35 pm

Carter said about half of the Guantanamo Bay population can be transferred to another country with security restrictions to ensure they don't return to the battlefield. (AP file)

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Ash Carter softens tone on closing Gitmo

Jacqueline Klimas · September 1, 2015 3:37 pm

A six-person team was at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas last week to assess the cost of moving detainees from Guantanamo Bay to the U.S. (Getty Images file)

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Pentagon weighs transferring Gitmo detainees to civilian prisons

Jacqueline Klimas · August 17, 2015 4:52 pm

A military officer walks from the entrance to Camp VI at the U.S. military prison for 'enemy combatants' on June 25, 2013 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Senators reject DOD plan to move Gitmo detainees to Kansas, South Carolina

Nicole Duran · August 14, 2015 9:48 pm

Among other issues, the Pentagon must address whether detainees would gain any legal rights if they are transferred to a maximum security prison in the U.S. (AP Photo)Â

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Pentagon to release Gitmo closure plan after August recess

Jacqueline Klimas · August 10, 2015 6:09 pm

Sen. John McCain has been in talks to find a way to close the prison that other Republicans might support. (Getty)

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White House: Obama in final stages of plan to close Gitmo

Susan Crabtree · July 22, 2015 8:40 pm

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla insisted Monday that Cuba cannot agree to fully normalized relations with the United States until the U.S. gives Guantanamo Bay back to Cuba, and ends the trade embargo against the island. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Cuba wants it all: End the embargo, return Guantanamo Bay

Pete Kasperowicz · July 20, 2015 8:42 pm

"No anticipation and no plan with respect to the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station," DefSec Ashton Carter said at a press conference Wednesday. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

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Defense secretary: ‘No plan’ to give Gitmo back to Cuba

Tara Copp · July 1, 2015 7:32 pm