Tag Archives : Guantanamo

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 [...]

US President Barack Obama has been wanting to shut down the US prisons in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba but there is no money for it. A budget of $80 million is needed for the shutdown. US lawmakers denied this needed funding. It seems that politics got in the way of popular sentiment. Obama is being criticized for the supposedly ‘hasty decision to close [...]

A Pentagon report reveals that one out of every seven prisoners that got detained at the US prisons in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba went back to terrorist activity after being transferred abroad. There had already been 534 former Gitmo detainees that were transferred elsewhere. 74 ex-detainees are said to have re-engaged in terrorism. 29 of these have been [...]

The transcripts of the recorded interview with Guantanamo prisoner Mohammad el Gharani were shown on the English-language website of a TV network in Qatar. The interview was a result of a telephone call to Al Jazeera, an international Arabic television network, which Gharani instead called when he was given permission to phone a relative. The Al Jazeera [...]

Current Miss Universe, Venezuelan Dayana Mendoza, who recently visited the US naval facility located in eastern Cuba on a trip organized by the United Service Organizations (USO) thinks that Guantanamo prison is a ‘relaxing place that is quiet and beautiful.’ Mendoza was sent to Guantanamo in an entertainment tour to visit US troops and raise morale. Mendoza, [...]

A month ago, the International Commission of Jurists urged the White House to change the term ‘War on Terror’ because it “justifies the violations of humanitarian law and human rights.” Some sectors of the army had also requested a change of title because it gathers under a single name all the policies that deal with different enemies. George [...]

Britain unveils guidelines for interrogating suspected terrorists. The guidelines to which British military intelligence operators must adhere to in the interrogation of terrorist suspects were made public, as Gordon Brown announced to the Parliament. The prime minister wants to show that Britain condemns torture and that the publication of these guidelines [...]

At least seven EU countries (Portugal, France, UK, Ireland, Sweden, Finland, and Spain) are willing to share a few dozen prisoners at Guantanamo which the Bush administration had ordered released because of the US inability to hear and judge their cases. The US is not willing to host these prisoners nor could they be repatriated to their countries of [...]

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 [...]

Joe Biden asks Europe to help fight in Afghanistan. He says Guantanamo will close shop. He also states that the US will go ahead with its missile shield in Europe but will consult Russia about it. Joe Biden wants to set a ‘new tone’ in US relations with the world. His promise touches US foreign relations more than it does the government’s defense [...]