Posts Tagged ‘Gitmo’

Rehabilitation and reintegration of former Gitmo detainees: uncertain, no guarantees

Monday, November 16, 2009 13:51 By GSerrano

The debate over whether to close down the US detention facilities in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba involves two basic questions. What happens to terrorist suspects after they leave the detention center at Guantanamo Bay? Can Gitmo’s terrorists be rehabilitated?
There have been reports that answer the first question. Many of the former so-called terror suspects detained [...]

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US will no longer use the term ‘enemy combatant’ at Guantanamo

Sunday, March 15, 2009 21:46 By GSerrano

The US government has recently removed the term ‘enemy combatant’ and incorporated international law as a basis for detaining terrorist suspects in Guantanamo prison, while working to close the installation of the military base in Cuba. The term ‘enemy combatant’ was coined by the government of George W. Bush to justify its war against terrorism [...]

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There is Another Gitmo

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 8:13 By GSerrano

The US CIA secret prisons in Guantanamo, Cuba is more than an incarceration edifice, it is an entire culture of military impunity in handling suspected enemies of the state. The Guantanamo prison will close but another one of such kind and culture exists at the US military base in Bagram, Afghanistan which is 40 miles [...]

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