Tag: Guantanamo Bay

Obama Administration’s Benghazi Bombshell

Thomas Joscelyn · January 8, 2014 3:05 am

ChineseÃÂ UighurÃÂ Guantanamo detainees, who at the time were cleared for release but had no country to go to, show a home-made note to visiting members of the media at Camp Iguana detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. (AP/Brennan Linsley)

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China accuses U.S. of supporting terrorism after release of Uighurs from Guantanamo

Joel Gehrke · January 2, 2014 5:00 am

A June 20 photo shows the open-air pen used to confine detainees at the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison facility in Cuba. (AP Photo/Bill Gorman, File)

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Obama administration transfers three detainees from Guantanamo

Susan Crabtree · December 31, 2013 5:00 am

In this photo reviewed by the U.S. military, a soldier closes the gate at the now abandoned Camp X-Ray, which was used as the first detention facility for al-Qaida and Taliban militants who were captured after the Sept. 11 attacks at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013. Detainees were housed in open air pens until the completion of Camp Delta in April 2002. Many detainees at Guantanamo Bay may be closer to heading home under a bipartisan deal reached in Congress that gives President Barack Obama a rare victory in his fight to close the prison for terror suspects. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Defense bill gives Obama rare Guantanamo victory

Nedra Pickler · December 18, 2013 11:20 pm

For the third time in two days, a Guantanamo Bay prisoner has been ejected from a military courtroom on the U.S. naval base for arguing with the judge presiding over the Sept. 11 case. (AP/Charles Dharapak)

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Guantanamo prisoner again ejected from hearing

Associated Press · December 18, 2013 5:00 am

In this June 27, 2006 file photo, reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, U.S. military guards walk within Camp Delta military-run prison at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. Two men who have been held without charge at the Guantanamo Bay for more than a decade have been sent back to their native Algeria as part of a renewed effort to gradually close the prison, U.S. officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

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US sends 2 Guantanamo prisoners back to Algeria

Ben Fox · December 5, 2013 5:00 am

This satellite image provided by TerraServer.com and DigitalGlobe shows an image captured on Sept. 2, 2010, shows a portion of Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including the secret facility known as Penny Lane, upper middle in white. In the early years after 9/11, the CIA turned a handful of prisoners at the secret facility into double agents and released them. Current and former U.S. officials tell The Associated Press that the program helped kill terrorists. The program was carried out in the secret facility, built a few hundred yards from the administrative offices of the prison in Guantanamo Bay, bottom of image. The eight small cottages were hidden behind a ridge covered in thick scrub and cactus. (AP Photo/TerraServer.com and DigitalGlobe)

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Penny Lane: Gitmo’s other secret CIA facility

adam-goldman · November 26, 2013 8:42 pm

Police arrest demonstrators wearing orange jumpsuits while protesting the Guantanamo Bay military detention facility in front of the White House in Washington on June 26. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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House GOP ‘united’ to keep Gitmo open

Susan Crabtree · November 20, 2013 5:00 am

Senate paralyzed on what to do about Guantanamo

Bradley Klapper · November 20, 2013 12:28 am

A June 20 photo shows the open-air pen used to confine detainees at the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison facility in Cuba. (AP Photo/Bill Gorman, File)

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Senate votes against new restrictions on transfer of Gitmo detainees

Tim Mak · November 19, 2013 5:00 am

Secretary of State John Kerry gestures as he speaks at the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington, Monday, Nov. 18, 2013, during and event co-hosted by the OAS and Inter-American Dialogue focusing on U.S. policy of partnership and engagement with the Western Hemisphere. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Intel chief James Clapper, John Kerry push key lawmakers to help shutter Gitmo

Susan Crabtree · November 18, 2013 5:00 am

The White House reaffirmed President Obama's intention to shutter the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a long and elusive promise the president is trying to push anew. (Photo: Tim Mak/Washington Examiner file)

White House: Obama still determined to close Gitmo

Susan Crabtree · November 18, 2013 5:00 am