Guantanamo, Cuba News

The White House says detainees at Guantanamo Bay are not receiving vaccinations against the swine flu vaccine.

Sen. David Vitter joined two other GOP colleagues Wednesday in introducing a resolution that asks the Obama administration not to vaccinate detainees at Guantanamo Bay Cuba against the H1NI virus until vulnerable Americans are accommodated.

Within days of taking office, President Barack Obama announced that he would close the prison at Guantanamo Bay by the end of this year.

The Senate on Thursday rejected a measure that would have required prisoners charged with involvement in the September 11 attacks to stand trial in a military court rather than a criminal court.

A panel at the University of Michigan Law School is probing the future of U.S. security as the clock ticks down for the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

COLUMBIA - A recent cable news report that Guantanamo Bay detainees could be sent to South Carolina has provoked a roiling political debate, even though the concept of the transfer isn't new and doesn't appear imminent.

A Kuwaiti Airways engineer whom the U.S. military has accused of being a key aide to Osama bin Laden has been moved to the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention center's minimum-security wing that's reserved for prisoners slated to be released.

Amid shortages in the U.S., the announced plan to vaccinate Guantanamo Bay detainees against swine flu angered many.

A Guantanamo prisoner who has been on hunger strike for more than four years is in critical danger from malnutrition, his lawyers said Tuesday.

The defense secretary and attorney general are opposing an attempt to prohibit Guantanamo detainees from having civilian trials in the United States.

Six former Guantanamo Bay detainees brought to Palau for resettlement have received a warm official welcome, but a plan to deport Bangladeshi workers could halve this Pacific Island nation's already-tiny Muslim community, making integration harder.

Guantanamo Bay SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico a ' Terrorism suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base will soon get swine flu vaccines, despite complaints that American civilians should have priority, a military spokesman said Sunday.

U.S. sends 6 Uighurs from Guantanamo to Palau A mobile guard tower stands over a camp for Chinese Uighur detainees at the U.S. military prison for "enemy combatants" on Oct.

A "noncompliant" detainee is escorted by guards inside the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Tuesday.

A coalition of top musicians, including REM and Seattle's Pearl Jam, want to know if their music was used by the U.S. military as part of controversial interrogation methods at the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.

The list of musicians is very impressive. Many of them are in the Rock&Roll hall of fame in Cleveland.

Thirteen Uygur detainees at Guantanamo are to have their pleas for release heard in by the US Supreme Court.

Seven former Guantanamo Bay detainees asked the High Court in London on Tuesday to reject a government request to use secret sessions to hear allegations that Britain was complicit in their torture overseas.

President Barack Obama says he's serious about closing the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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