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Comedy Central acquired first-window rights to Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay , as well as a window for Be Kind Rewind , starring Jack Black.

LONDON: A British resident held at the US "war on terror" detention center at Guantanamo Bay has written a letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown calling for his release, The Independent newspaper reported ...

Posted by Amanda Terkel , Think Progress at 9:18 AM on May 30, 2008. Despite the fact that defense attorneys for five suspected al Qaeda members being held at Guantanamo Bay have not yet received security ...

The Associated Press Thursday, May 29, 2008; 5:29 PM SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- U.S. military prosecutors filed identical charges Thursday against three Guantanamo Bay detainees, including a U.S.-educated Saudi ...

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she rejects allegations that Guantanamo Bay detainees are being abused.

The military judge in the Omar Khadr trial in Guantanamo Bay has been relieved of his duties, a move that Mr.

A British resident detained in Guantanamo Bay has written to Gordon Brown to plead for his release.

The United States is shirking its duty to provide the world with moral leadership and China is letting its business interests trump human rights concerns in Myanmar and Sudan, a human rights group said ...

Almost seven years after 9/11, Guantanamo Bay remains a shameful symbol of the War on Terror.

An Afghan detainee at Guantanamo Bay was the alleged victim of an abusive tactic meant to decrease his resistance to interrogation, a Pentagon-appointed defence attorney said Wednesday in a motion to dismiss ...

Protesters dressed in prisoner jumpsuits stand outside the DC Superior Court yesterday in Washington, DC.

A federal courtroom may be the proper place to dispense justice in the terrorism case of confessed Sept.

The Supreme Court is meeting to issue opinions and announce whether it has accepted any new cases.

Governance , Human Rights , War & Conflict , Politics Languages: Arabic , English Full Category List Excerpt This round-up highlights the two most talked about recent topics in the Sudanese blogosphere.

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- A military judge denied motions Thursday to delay the June 5 arraignments of five Guantanamo prisoners suspected of involvement in the 9/11 attacks.

Canada's government violated the constitution when it gave American officials the results of interviews that Canadian intelligence officials conducted with a Canadian detainee at the Guantanamo Bay prison, the ...

David Hicks' family and lawyer say they know nothing of a reported $1 million offer to the former Guantanamo Bay detainee to tell his story.

Washington - Murat Kurnaz told a House committee Tuesday about what he went through during five years as a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay.

Military prosecutors filed charges Friday against a Sudanese detainee at Guantanamo Bay who is accused of running a training camp for terrorists in Afghanistan in the late 1990s.

If his cell were at Guantanamo Bay, the prisoner would be just one of hundreds of suspected terrorists detained offshore, where the U.S. says the Constitution does not apply.

THE Bush administration's incompetence in the war on terror was on full display again recently as charges were dismissed against Mohammed al-Qahtani, who was reported to have been closely involved in plans for ...

Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, May 21, 2008; Page A01 Complaints by FBI agents about abusive interrogation tactics at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba , and other U.S. military sites reached the National Security ...

Canadian agents acted illegally when they interrogated Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr and handed that intelligence to U.S. authorities, the Supreme Court ruled today in a decision damning the Bush ...

Posted by Attaturk , Firedoglake at 2:19 PM on May 21, 2008. Detainees were kept awake for long periods, deprived of food and forced to endure cold, just prior to questioning by Chinese interrogators.

U.S. officials said Thursday they will review whether more juveniles were detained at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay than the eight they have reported.

NEW DELHI: The right-wing Hindu government in the tourist state of Rajasthan has accused India's central government of suggesting that "illegal Bangladeshi migrants" should be put in a "transit camp like ...

A Justice Department report released Tuesday, May 20, 2008, found that the CIA and military ignored repeated warnings from the FBI that their interrogation techniques were tantamount to torture.

The United States is "stuck" with its war-on-terror detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba because it cannot figure out what to do with prisoners who cannot be charged or set loose, US Defence Secretary ...

An Afghan detainee was dragged from his cell to his first pretrial hearing at Guantanamo on Wednesday, then refused to participate, telling the judge he felt "helpless."

Mohammed Kamin joined a growing detainee boycott of the war-crimes trials at the Guantanamo Bay Navy base in southeast Cuba. The military judge, Air Force Col. W. Thomas Cumbie, said Kamin tried to bite and spit on a guard on the way to the courtroom.

In his first public appearance since arriving at Guantanamo in 2004, Kamin wore a heavy beard and the orange prison uniform reserved for noncompliant prisoners, his ankles shackled above his sneakers.

AN FBI agent watched Australian detainee Mamdouh Habib repeatedly vomit during a marathon interrogation session at Guantanamo Bay in 2004, according to a long-awaited US Justice Department report released ...

WASHINGTON : Top Bush administration security officials ignored FBI concerns over abusive treatment of terrorism suspects, which one agent called "borderline torture," a four-year Justice Department probe ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The alleged "20th hijacker" in the Sept. 11 attacks tried to kill himself at Guantanamo last month, his lawyer disclosed Tuesday, saying the Saudi prisoner was distraught over a possible ...

A former Army Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who was cleared of spy accusations is now a Democratic National Convention delegate pledged to Sen.

A man who was held for years at the Guantanamo Bay prison will testify on Capitol Hill today. via WLOS

“That is our protocol and that's what we stick with.”

FBI agents raised concerns about U.S. interrogators mistreating terror detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay during the three years after Sept. via Fort Worth Star-Telegram

The Supreme Court is meeting today to issue opinions and announce whether it has accepted any new cases. via Post-Standard

“By moving us a bit closer to a parliamentary system, McCain would strike a major blow for real debate and democracy”

COVER: "Growing Up Bipolar" . General Editor Mary Carmichael reports that at least 800,000 children in the U.S. have been diagnosed as bipolar, no doubt some of them wrongly. via Earth Times

“It was difficult to tell agents what the rules were because we didn't know ourselves”

A new Justice Department report praises FBI agents for refusing to join in the U.S. military's abusive questioning of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Iraq and Afghanistan, but faults the bureau's for responding ... via News-Times

A military judge wants to hear from the Supreme Court before starting the first war crimes tribunal at the Guantanamo Bay prison.

The judge hearing the case against Osama bin Laden's former driver ruled Friday that the trial should be postponed six weeks, to July 14.

Navy Capt. Keith Allred said he wants to wait until the Supreme Court rules on whether Guantanamo detainees have a right to challenge their detention in U.S. civil courts.

Allred says the Supreme Court decision is expected by June 30 and could affect the case. Read more

“We are going to ask you to open up your communities to us”

The U.S. is its own worst enemy when it comes to the desperately important task of recruiting immigrants as spies, analysts and translators in the war on terror, new Americans are telling intelligence ... via Post-Standard

Yes, she'll fight like a junkyard dog What do Yucca Mountain and Guantanamo Bay have in common? Well, there's the obvious stuff. via Hugh Hewitt

“As of April 2008, US forces held approximately 500 juveniles”

Around 500 minors are currently detained by the US army in Iraq, as well as nearly a dozen juveniles in Afghanistan, a US civil liberties group revealed on Wednesday. via Raw Story

“These two (gigs) are important to the band. There are folks in uniform all over the world, and at home, looking out for us. "To play for them is an honor. Not a bad way to spend the holiday weekends.”

Daily Entertainment Photos - "Get all the fashion, glamour and scandal here in pictures!" Rockers Everclear are to perform for 6,000 U.S. troops and their families at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba on Memorial Day. via X101.5

“Important to remember that heritage can invite anyone to present and that we don't really have an opinion on anyone”

It's been nearly a month since the New York Times first reported on a Pentagon program in which retired military officers, who've since become lobbyists or consultants for military contractors, were recruited ... via The Carpetbagger Report

“We are slipping down the slope of going down that same route.”

Canada and the United States have sunk to the moral equivalent of terrorists in their handling of a young Canadian held at Guantanamo, Liberal Senator Romeo Dallaire said Tuesday. via CANOE

The suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks is cooperating with his defense -an apparent break with other Guantanamo prisoners who are boycotting their war-crimes trials. via International Business Times

“If anything, based on the testimony that's been put out there, he stepped over the line even further than when Mr. Hamdan was involved.”

A military judge's ruling that a Pentagon lawyer improperly pressured prosecutors could hurt efforts to try top al Qaeda suspects held at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, a defense lawyer said Monday. via SI.com

A military judge conducting a war crimes tribunal for Guantanamo prisoners has barred a general who set up the tribunals, The New York Times reported Saturday. via Daily India

“The departure and rotation of senior leaders resulted in an unforecasted vacancy within the US CENTCOM Headquarters.”

Islamabad, May 10 : US Central Command Headquarters have clarified that Major General Jay W Hood, who headed the Guantanamo Bay prison between 2004 and 2006 and who was earlier assigned to replace the US ... via Newkerala.com

The U.S. government has been condemned soundly for continuing to hold a variety of prisoners accused of terrorist activities. via The Intelligencer

“General Hood is being considered for a different, equally important job in the Centcom headquarters.”

Pentagon withdraws controversial 'Guantanamo Bay' Gen Hood from Pak posting Washington, May 9 : The Bush administration is learnt to have withdrawn the appointment of Maj. via Newkerala.com

“There are a lot of prisoners down there, frankly, that we would be prepared to turn over to their home government”

By Andrew Gray Reuters Thursday, May 8, 2008; 7:10 PM WASHINGTON - Between 5 and 10 percent of inmates freed from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay have returned to terrorism since their release, U.S. ... via The Washington Post

Top Story Headlines NEW THIS MORNING - Soldiers living in bad conditions NEW THIS MORNING - Nurses with criminal backgrounds Renteria sentenced to death David Renteria has been sentenced to death for killing a ... via KVIA-TV El Paso

Lawyers for a Guantanamo Bay detainee said Wednesday they have filed a lawsuit seeking to force the British government to hand over documents that they claim prove the prisoner was tortured before being sent to ... via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

The U.S. military is confirming that a former Guantanamo detainee from Kuwait carried out a recent suicide attack in northern Iraq. via WBAY

“The judges here are under a lot of pressure”

An inmate at the US-run Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba is set to be the first child soldier to go on trial for war crimes since Nuremberg, after a military judge ruled that there were no legal obstacles ... via The Independent

“I think it's a near-impossibility that these cases will be in court before the end of the (Bush) administration”

It is unlikely that the roughly 775 detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay prison facility will face a jury trial before the end of the year, U.S. officials say. via Daily India

“I was subjected to 130 (interrogation) sessions, more than 35 about Al-Jazeera, and they wanted me to be a spy against Al-Jazeera”

An Al-Jazeera cameraman released from the U.S.-run Guantanamo Bay detention center last week described it Monday as the worst prison mankind has ever seen. via Boston.com

“The AP's interest is the public's interest, knowing what the government is up to”

An appeals court panel heard arguments Monday on whether to release the identities of some detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp who suffered mistreatment by their handlers or other prisoners. via NOLA.com

“Greetings from paradise GTMO resort and spa fun in the Cuban sun.”

Oh the outrage! The gift shop at Guantamo Bay sells a T-shirt that features a guard tower and barbed wire with wording that says: "The Taliban Towers at Guantanamo Bay, the Caribbean's Newest 5-star Resort." ... via Free Republic

'In Bruges' at 1:45, 4:25, 7:15 and 9:40. 'Iron Man' at 12, 12:45, 1:30, 2:45, 3:30, 4:15, 5:30, 6:15, 7, 8:15, 9 and 9:45. 'Made of Honor' at 1:15, 4, 6:45 and 9:30. 'Baby Mama' at 12:05, 2:20, 4:35, 7:10 ... via WisInfo

“I'm very glad Sami has finally been released, but the question is why he wasn't freed many years ago.”

Sudanese-born journalist Sami al-Haj, in U.S. custody for seven years, was never charged with any crime. via Truthdig

An al-Jazeera cameraman released from US custody at Guantanamo Bay returned home to Sudan yesterday after six years of imprisonment that drew worldwide protests. via Taipei Times

“Everyone is agreed that we need to find a way that eventually leads to the closure of Guantanamo, which is the president's policy decision. It is a very complicated matter”

The Bush administration could announce plans by the end of its term in January to close Guantanamo prison and an upcoming Supreme Court ruling might be the impetus for this, senior U.S. officials and experts ... via Reuters

“Now I can plan my life differently. Everything will be all right, God willing.”

Al-Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Hajj has been released after nearly six years in the U.S. Navy prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a senior Pentagon official aware of the details of the release told CNN on Thursday. via CNN

It's 10 minutes after Roldy and Kumar get back from their first film's addled epic quest for White Castle, which, you will remember, was the pretext for a movie representing the difficulties reality imposes on ... via The Santa Barbara Independent

“We were shocked by the painful news we received this afternoon ... through a call from one of the friend's of martyr Abdullah in Iraq”

A Kuwaiti man released from the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay in 2005 has carried out a suicide bombing in Iraq, his cousin told Al Arabiya television on Thursday. via 104.7 The Edge