Guantanamo, Cuba News

A novel for teenagers about the US prison in Guantanamo Bay written by a rock star's wife was nominated Wednesday for a prestigious children's book prize in Britain.

Cubans are scrambling to turn off lights and appliances and children are going door to door reminding them to do just that under a government threat of dreaded blackouts if energy consumption is not reduced through the end of the year.

Congressman Aaron Schock introduced legislation Tuesday that would prohibit federal money from being used to transfer detainees from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to the Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois.

Posted on Nov 20, 2009 by Admin . The nation's focus on the village of Thomson, Ill., is giving pause to Muslims in the neighboring community of Clinton.

It has been reported from Algeria that a court has acquitted two former detainees of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba – Guards didn't go through the prison camps Wednesday and unpin the presidential closure order from detainee bulletin boards.

For nearly eight years years the people in Thomson, Illinois and the surrounding area have waited for Thomson Correctional Center to open.

An Algerian court on Sunday acquitted two former detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who were returned home to face charges of links to terrorism, their defense lawyer said.

The five men the Justice Department has said will be charged in the attacks of Sept.

According to POLITICO, Obama's fans in the Beltway are shocked, shocked that he and his White House minions scapegoat White House General Counsel Greg Craig for Obama's failed promise to close Guantanamo in one year.

A federal judge Friday ordered the Obama administration to free a long-held Guantanamo captive who fled his native Algeria years ago and kicked around Europe as a construction worker for a decade before his capture in Pakistan.

The Obama administrationa s review of an Illinois prison as a home for Guantanamo Bay detainees includes examining whether it could host military trials, an administration official said.

The American Forces Press Service reported November 18 that President Barack Obama has acknowledged that his deadline for closing the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba will probably not be met.

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Reporting from Washington - The Obama administration took an important step toward closing the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, when it announced plans Friday to prosecute the accused Sept.

Posted on Nov 19, 2009 by James Q. Lynch . The Obama administration is considering buying the Thomson Correctional Facility in rural northwestern Illinois, about 15 miles northeast of Clinton, Iowa, to house terrorism suspects from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Human rights organization says detainees need to be charged and tried in a federal court or released immediately; no more excuses Larry Cox, Amnesty International USA executive director, issued the following statement in response to President Barack Obama's remarks that the U.S.-controlled detention facility at Guantnamo Bay, Cuba, will not be ...

President Barack Obama is now confirming what many have long suspected: He will miss his January deadline to close the Guantanamo prison - partly because he cannot persuade other nations to take the detainees.

Despite is claims that progress is being made in closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, President Barack Obama acknowledged on Wednesday that the administration won't make the January 2010 deadline he set when he took office, according to Michael Carden of the American Forces Press Service .

President Barack Obama predicted that professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be convicted and executed as Attorney General Eric Holder proclaimed: "Failure is not an option." Photograph by: Charles Dharapak Credit: AP Even if a terror trial suspect were acquitted, Holder said, he would not be released in the United States.