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2 hrs ago | Russia Taday

Obama mulls resuming Guantanamo prison transfers - reports

Ahead of a major speech by President Obama involving US counterterrorism operations, the White House has indicated that it will include a plan to renew prisoner transfers out of Guantanamo Bay, with the ultimate goal of shuttering the prison.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Prison, US News, Guantanamo Bay, Terrorism

2 hrs ago | Jerusalem Post

US army lawyers urge Hagel to improve Guantanamo

Military and civilian lawyers for prisoners at the Guantanamo naval base urged US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to improve conditions for detainees, putting more pressure on the Obama administration to make good its promise to close the camp.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Prison, Israel, World News, Middle East

5 hrs ago | The Toronto Star

U.S. admits it killed four Americans in overseas attacks

American sailors move an X-47B drone aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush earlier this month.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, US Military Prisons, Prison

5 hrs ago | Common Dreams

Obama Administration Admits Drone Attacks Killed 4 US Citizens

In a letter to senior members of Congress, Attorney General Eric Holder writes that in addition to the targeted assassination of cleric Anwar al-Aulaqi, since 2009, three other U.S. citizens - Samir Khan, Abd aI-Rahman Anwar al-Aulaqi, and Jude Kenan Mohammed - were also killed in "U.S. counterterrorism operations" though they "were not ... (more)

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5 hrs ago | Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph

Eric Holder Acknowledges U.S. Killed Four Americans in Drone Strikes, ...

Barack Obama will speak at the National Defense University tomorrow, where's he's expected to address his counterterrorism policies, including targeted killings, the war on Al-Qaeda, and closing Guantanamo Bay.

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Related Topix: Eric Holder, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, US Military Prisons, Camp Delta, Prison, Guantanamo Bay

6 hrs ago | Examiner.com

Auditions for feature film 'Camp-X-Ray' starring Kristen Stewart

The Gotham Group is in the pre-production stage on the upcoming feature film "Camp X-Ray" and the Primetime Emmy Award winning casting director for the movie is holding auditions for lead, co-starring, and supporting roles.

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7 hrs ago | Common Dreams

CODEPINK: Obama Speaks On Drones & Gitmo: CODEPINK Speaks Back

As President Obama hosts a press conference at the National Defense University CODEPINK and other activists will vigiling outside.

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11 hrs ago | CNN

9 myths about drones and Guantanamo

Editor's note: Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a director at the New America Foundation and the author of "Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for bin Laden -- From 9/11 to Abbottabad," the basis for the HBO documentary "Manhunt" that will be shown on CNN on May 24.

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12 hrs ago | The Hill

Obama, lawmakers ready to renew push to shutter Guantanamo Bay prison

As President Obama gears up for a new push to close GuantA namo Bay, lawmakers from both parties are skeptical the president will be successful in persuading Congress to shutter the facility.

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Related Topix: Prison, US Military Prisons, US News, US Politics, US Senate, Carl Levin, Democrat, Dianne Feinstein

16 hrs ago | Aurora Era-Banner

Anonymous threat shuts down internet in Guantanamo

The US military has blocked Internet service at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba following online hacking threats from the group, Anonymous.

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18 hrs ago | The Press-Enterprise

RIVERSIDE: UCR ARTSblock opens - Geographies of Detention'

UCR ARTSblock presents Geographies of Detention: From Guantanamo to the Golden Gulag , on view at the California Museum of Photography from June 1 through September 7, 2013, andaccompanied by a program of events.

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Tue May 21, 2013

Russia Taday

'Don't interact, don't talk, they are not humans' - Gitmo guard's basic orders

One of the methods used to extract information from Muslim inmates in Guantanamo was to apply sexual interrogation techniques, Terry Holdbrooks, former guard at the camp has told RT.

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Bloomberg

Bin Laden Corpse Photos Can Be Secret: Court

Photos of Osama bin Laden's corpse and burial at sea were properly classified by U.S. officials and can be withheld from the public, a federal appeals court ruled.

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NewsOn6 Tulsa

Man pleads guilty in Picasso vandalism case

Citing a lack of leads, a police agency said Monday that it is closing the active investigation of the disappearance of Susan Powell, a Utah mother whose now-dead husband was a prime suspect The lawyer for the family of missing Utah woman Susan Powell said Tuesday that even as local police close the active part of their investigation into her ... (more)

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The Miami Herald

Pentagon wants $450M for Guantanamo prison

The Pentagon wants more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wants to close.

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NewsOn6 Tulsa

Pentagon wants $450M for Guantanamo prison

Rescue crews are working through the night after a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered wood.

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Russia Taday

'Guantanamo guards shot my client 5 times for no reason'

Over 100 Guantanamo prisoners continue their hunger strike in protest against unlawful - and as it turns out, violent - detention.

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The Times Leader

Lawyer gets JAG detail at Gitmo

It may seem strange that a Mountain Top lawyer who just earned a partnership with a firm near his hometown would take a nine-month hiatus to Cuba.

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National Public Radio

White House Again Raises Possibility Of Closing Guantanamo

For the first time in years, the Obama administration appears to be focused on shuttering the Guantanamo Bay prison and - at a minimum - has redoubled its efforts to reduce the number of people held there.

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War Is A Crime

The Reason for Hunger Strikes-from Northern Ireland to Guantanamo

I'm in Northern Ireland and yesterday on May 20, 2013, I spoke with several members of the Northern Ireland Parliament.

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