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Sunday, November 22, 2009 12:27 AM

Guantanamo (Cuba)

Type: City
Name: Guantanamo (Cuba)
Country: Cuba
Latitude: 20.15
Longitude: -75.220001
population: 272,808
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 22 hours ago - 2 Documents
Standish, Michigan, tells Liz Cheney to sell it up the street: Officials in a small Michigan town featured in a new video about Guantanamo by Liz Cheney’s national security group want her to know that they’re not falling for her “fearmongering” — and ... [Daily Kos - 22 hours ago]
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 5 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Central Intelligence Agency - Click to view 360-page
Central Intelligence Agency
PREPARE yourselves for the trial of the century, if not the millennium. If you thought the O. J. Simpson or Michael Jackson cases were sensational, just wait until Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed mastermind of the September 11 attacks, shuffles ... [Sydney Morning Herald - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents (in Politics)
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Human Rights First
Both the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights First were at Guantanamo this week to observe the commencement of the new, revised military commissions. Both were present for the pre-trial hearing of Mohammed Kamin, and both organizations had ... [TAPPED - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents
Farhi Saeed bin Mohammed, an Algerian national who was captured in Pakistan and turned over to the U.S. military after fleeing from Afghanistan, was ordered released from the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay by a U.S. District Court judge yesterday, ... [The Washington Independent - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents
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Barack Obama
by Mark SilvaPresident Barack Obama is home.Home, where the hard work is.With stops in 20 nations behind him, said to be the most ambitious international itinerary of any first-year president, Obama faces the closing innings of a domestic policy year ... [South Florida Sun-Sentinel - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Terrorist Trial NJ_Section NJ_Type NJ_Feature 'opening NJ_PubDate NJ_Title 'No Need To Fear A Manhattan Terrorist NJ_Author NJ_Kicker 'OPENING NJ_ID NJ_Topic Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 News Blogs Multimedia Subscriber ... [National Journal - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents (in Energy)
LOUISVILLE — Republicans Trey Grayson and Rand Paul exchanged sharp words on the issue of Guantánamo Bay, and Democrats Jack Conway and Daniel Mongiardo squabbled about their alliances with coal.During a heated forum for U.S. Senate candidates Thursday ... [Stateline - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents
Last Friday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, principle architect of the Sept. 11 attacks, and four other detainees held in Guantanamo Bay would be tried in New York’s southern district court. Settling down to enjoy their ... [Vanderbilt Hustler - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
US President Barack Obama, defending plans to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in civilian court, predicted on Wednesday that the accused author of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks would be convicted, and executed.US Attorney General Eric Holder assured lawmakers ... [Taipei Times Online - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents
Officials in a small Michigan town featured in a new video about Guantanamo by Liz Cheney's national security group want her to know that they're not falling for her "fearmongering" -- and say they want Gitmo detainees in their town. ... [The Huffington Post | Full News Feed - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
WASHINGTON --In another, a Maryland attorney proposed that his Pakistani client, being held as an alleged al Qaeda facilitator, be allowed to post bail and stay with family -- in Brooklyn.Congress returns Tuesday from its summer recess but there was no ... [Miami Herald - 23 hours ago]
First Reported 22 hours ago - Updated 22 hours ago - 1 Documents
One would have thought that Brussels occupied most, if not all European TV station’s prime spots last night; having chosen to watch the BBC -- famous for its honest news brokerage -- I expected nothing less. I had already heard that a special summit ... [Zaman - 22 hours ago]

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...They have some strong competition. Thomson, Illinois " is reportedly pushing hard for the administration to send Guantanamo prisoners there." If Standish goes broke, they may be sorry they weren't a bit more courageous
...people and our legal traditions and the prosecutors, the tough prosecutors from New York who specialize in terrorism" -- Barack Obama, yesterday. "Holder said five other Guantanamo detainees would be tried by military tribunals. The five include Abd al-Rahim al Nashiri, who is accused of masterminding the 2000 attack on the USS Cole warship in Yemen; and Canadian Omar Khadr, accused of killing a U S soldier in Afghanistan" -- NPR
In an interview in Beijing with Fox News, Obama said he knew closing down the prison at Guantanamo Bay was going to be difficult. "It's hard not only because of the politics. People I think understandably are fearful after a lot of years where they were told that Guantanamo was critical to keeping terrorists out. So, I understood that that had to be processed, but it's also just technically hard I just think as usual in Washington things move slower than I anticipated. 'We are on a path and a process where I would anticipate that Guantanamo will be closed next year,' he said. 'I'm not going to set an exact date because a lot of this is also going to depend upon co-operation from Congress.' One of Obama's first acts as president was to sign an executive order to close the facility within a year, a move he said would restore his countrys 'moral high ground.' But his plan ran into roadblocks. His administration found it difficult to find countries willing to take in the more than 200 detainees."
...accidentally revealed in a television interview that Obama's rhetoric about a nuclear-free world is not meant to apply to America or its allies: "It was utterly clear from the context of the speech that he was speaking about North Korea and Iran" the Israeli leader said...

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Who Will Investigate CIA/RAND/APA Torture ‘Work... [Public Record - 13 mins ago]
Obama dream fades even for his allies [Times Online - 1 hour ago]
The Fall of Greg Craig, Obama's Top Lawyer [Time - 2 hours ago]
Stand Off in Standish [Detroit News - 3 hours ago]
White House estimates as many as 3,000 jobs if ... [Chicago Tribune - 3 hours ago]
White House: Moving detainess could yield 3,000... [Chicago Tribune - 3 hours ago]
Rep. Nadler and Attorney David Frakt on Obama’s... [Public Record - 4 hours ago]
Is America a Serious Nation? [AINA - 5 hours ago]
Editorial: Terrorists on trial [Chicago Tribune - 5 hours ago]
Barack Obama: the politics of hypocrisy and cyn... [Telegraph - 10 hours ago]
Guantanamo won't close by January: Obama [Yahoo! Canada - 12 hours ago]
Friend in need is a foe in deed [Washington Times - 12 hours ago]
Who's afraid of Hiroshima? Obama's nuclear hypo... [Online Journal - 12 hours ago]
A life travelling the path of peace [Irish Times - 13 hours ago]
Broadside: Joyce, Malone on political hot seat [NECN.com - 16 hours ago]
Lynne Stewart: Heroic Human Rights Lawyer Jailed [Boston IMC - 16 hours ago]
New York 9-11 trials put US legal system in the... [Sunday Tribune Ireland - 18 hours ago]
Chinese, Chemical Stocks Post Some Of Best Profits [Investors Business Daily - 19 hours ago]
Prison holds promise for job-strapped town [Washington Post - 22 hours ago]
Karzai and Obama; Guantanamo; Thierry -- what a... [Zaman - 22 hours ago]
Caucasus and Balkans, Karabakh and Bosnia by Ha... [Zaman - 22 hours ago]
Guantánamo captives winning lawsuits [Miami Herald - 23 hours ago]
Skelton not happy with 9/11 trials [The Hill - 11/20/2009]
Another Gitmo Detainee Wins in Federal Court; S... [The Washington Independent - 11/20/2009]
Gitmo Prisoner’s Death: Suicide or Murder? [The Washington Independent - 11/20/2009]
Small Town To Liz Cheney: We Want Gitmo Detaine... [The Huffington Post | Full News Feed - 11/20/2009]
Gitmo plan delayed [One News Now - 11/20/2009]
In other news, gravity still exists [Foreign Policy Magazine - 11/20/2009]
COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE CONCLUDES FORTY-THIRD... [United Nations - 11/20/2009]
A decision that Obama may come to regret [Sydney Morning Herald - 11/20/2009]
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Saturday Diary Rescue [MyDD - 5 hours ago]
Senate health care debate happening now on CSPAN2, and it's never too late to give your Senator a call through the capital switchboard: (202) 224-3121.   When you're ...
White House Guts Own Argument for 9/11 Trials [RealClearPolitics - Homepage - 11 hours ago]
Glenn Greenwald, Salon(updated below - Update II) "What I'm absolutely clear about is that I have complete confidence in the American people and ...
Michigan Town Tells Liz Cheney To Peddle Her Fe... [Daily Kos - 22 hours ago]
Standish, Michigan, tells Liz Cheney to sell it up the street: Officials in a small Michigan town featured in a new video about Guantanamo by Liz Cheney’s national ...
Michigan Town Rejects Liz Cheney’s ‘Fearmongeri... [Think Progress - 11/20/2009]
Recently, the Liz Cheney-founded right-wing advocacy group Keep America Safe released a mini-documentary that features several residents of Standish, Michigan, speaking ...
Jonathan Horowitz: The New Bagram: Has Anything... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 11/20/2009]
Last weekend, the United States unveiled its new state of the art detention facility to journalists, diplomats, Afghan officials, and nongovernmental organizations. ...
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Session on Fox and Friends to Discuss KSM trial... [Senator Jeff Sessions - YouTube Channel - 11/20/2009]
Holder Laughed [Slate Magazine - 11/19/2009]
Obama to miss Guantanamo closure deadline - 19 ... [Al Jazeera - YouTube - 11/19/2009]
The attorney general tries to sell us on New Yo... [Slate Magazine - 11/18/2009]
Senator Hutchison on Moving Guantanamo Prisoner... [Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison - YouTube Channel - 11/17/2009]
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