Guantanamo Bay News

U.S. officials are reviewing which Guantanamo Bay detainees could face trial in American courts and the first indications could come next week, the U.S. attorney general said Sunday.

The Obama administration should think long and hard before releasing detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Yemen, according to a local congressman.

Perry County's representative in Congress, Jo Ann Emerson said that plans to make the H1N1 flu shot available to detainees at the Guantanamo Bay naval base will put suspected terrorists ahead of American citizens.

Shortly after taking office, President Barack Obama signed an executive order to close the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba within a year.

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 former prisoner, who was kept behind bars at the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay for six years, has vowed to lodge a criminal case against former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf for arresting him illegally.

The Senate defeated a bid to try Sept. 11 suspects only in front of military tribunals after an emotional debate that rekindled questions over how to keep Americans safe from further assault.

The Obama administration has decided to transfer overseas a Kuwaiti held at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and will not appeal a court decision freeing him, the Justice Department said on Monday.

Senate allows transfer to U.S. The Senate on Thursday gave the green light to President Obama to transfer the accused plotters of the Sept.

In this June 1 photo reviewed by the U.S. military, Chinese Uighur Guantanamo detainees show a home-made note to visiting members of the media, at Camp Iguana detention facility, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba.

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.

U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett found out Wednesday his Republican rivals for governor are willing to disagree even when they agree on an issue - housing terrorism suspects in Charleston.

Controversy erupts over the feds' decision to offer terrorism suspects the H1N1 vaccine - ahead of pregnant women A Guantanamo Bay detainee's arm hangs outside his cell.

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.

The White House said Friday no decisions have been made about transferring detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the Navy brig in Charleston or other prisons on the U.S. mainland.

'It's anti-American, period,' said the rock band REM in a statement. 'We have spent the past 30 years supporting causes related to peace and justice.

By JONATHAN KAMINSKY Updated: November 03, 2009, 1:31 PM / They've shaved off the long beards they wore at Guantanamo Bay, and they were angered at a local newspaper report that casually referred to them as terrorists.

Omar Khadr, motions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on the morning of October 23, 2008. Janet Hamlin Illustrator FIGHT BREAKDOWN Here's how the July 2002 firefight in Afghanistan unfolded: 1. U.S. Special Forces carry out a ground and aerial assault of a suspected Al Qaeda compound.

The US Supreme Court refused Monday to consider the case of a Yemeni detainee held at Guantanamo Bay despite a lower court order for his release.

The state board responsible for licensing - and disciplining - psychologists in Louisiana is accused of turning a blind eye to serious allegations of abuse against one of its members, including complicity in beatings, religious and sexual humiliation, rape threats and painful body positions during his service as a senior advisor on interrogations ...