Rights groups turn down Gitmo tour
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) Three human rights groups said Friday they will spurn an invitation to tour the Guantanamo Bay prison next month because it doesn t include an opportunity to speak with prisoners. Amnesty International USA, the American C...
 2.7K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 251.0 Rights groups turn down Gitmo tour
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) Three human rights groups said Friday they will spurn an invitation to tour the Guantanamo Bay prison next month because it doesn t include an opportunity to speak with prisoners. Amnesty International USA, the American C...
2.7K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 251.0 Obama allies draw comparisons to Bush on security issues
WASHINGTON New cracks are opening in the relationship between President Barack Obama and his liberal allies in Congress over his desire to continue Bush-era tactics against terrorism and his opposition to protecting reporters from revealing their s...
4.9K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 208.0 Ideals over action?
WASHINGTON The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama landed with a shock on darkened, still-asleep Washington. He won! For what? For one of America s youngest presidents, in office less than nine months and only for 12 days...
5.5K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 139.0 Gitmo detainee ordered released
WASHINGTON (AP) A federal judge has ordered the release of a Kuwaiti man held at Guantanamo Bay and rebuked the U.S. government for relying on scant evidence, uncredible witnesses and coerced confessions to hold him for more than seven years. In an...
6.0K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 291.0 Holder, jog your memory
America will soon mark the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The replays of burning buildings and piercing screams will bring back jagged memories of that horrific day. This would be a useful time for U.S. Attorney General ...
2.9K - Sep. 9, 2009; scored 139.0 White House will question terror suspects
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama has moved more forcefully than ever to abandon Bush administration interrogation policies, approving creation of a special White House unit for questioning terrorism suspects, as Attorney General Eric Holder weighs...
4.6K - Aug. 24, 2009; scored 180.0 Taliban leader is killed in airstrike
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) Pakistan s Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, who led a violent campaign of suicide attacks and assassinations against the Pakistani government, has been killed in a U.S. missile strike, a militant commander and aide to...
7.4K - Aug. 7, 2009; scored 139.0 Jobs trump fears of terrorists in Michigan town
STANDISH, Mich. To many people struggling in this job-starved part of rural Michigan, unemployment is a bigger threat than terrorists. With unemployment at more than 17 percent, many residents say they would welcome detainees from Guantanamo Bay in...
5.4K - Aug. 4, 2009; scored 305.0 Yemeni at Guantanamo: prisoner without a country
WASHINGTON (AP) Legally speaking, Guantanamo Bay detainee Alla Ali bin Ali Ahmed should be a free man. He remains behind barbed wire in Cuba because he has nowhere to go. Ahmed, a 26-year-old Yemeni captured at a Pakistan guesthouse in 2002, was or...
4.0K - Aug. 2, 2009; scored 301.0 Congress must close Guantanamo
With less than six months left before a White House deadline, legal and logistical problems and an uncooperative Congress threaten to undermine President Obama s promise to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay by January. On his second day...
1.7K - Jul. 31, 2009; scored 265.0 Young detainee faces return to Afghanistan
WASHINGTON (AP) A judge who has grown impatient with the Obama administration's handling of a young Guantanamo Bay detainee is preparing to decide whether he'll go home to Afghanistan or to the United States for prosecution. U.S. District Judge Ell...
1.0K - Jul. 30, 2009; scored 139.0 U.S. image abroad surges
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama's popularity has boosted America's image abroad even though deep suspicions about the U.S. persist in the Muslim world, according to a poll released Thursday. The survey of two dozen nations conducted this spring b...
4.3K - Jul. 24, 2009; scored 139.0 Is Obama's 'prolonged detention' American?
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall once warned: Throughout the world today there are men, women and children interned indefinitely, awaiting trials which may never come or which may be a mockery of the word, because their governments believe th...
5.7K - Jun. 26, 2009; scored 271.0 Palau president: Gitmo detainees still fear China
MELEKEOK, Palau - Some Chinese Muslims detained at Guantanamo Bay who have been offered resettlement in Palau are leery of moving to the tiny Pacific island nation for fear that it cannot protect them from China, Palau's president said Tuesday. Palau...
3.4K - Jun. 23, 2009; scored 319.0 U.S. torture was reprehensible
Finally, we have clear evidence about the torture techniques the CIA and military used in Guantanamo bay and other U.S. prisons controlled by the CIA. Reading about them paralyzed me for a brief time. I could not comprehend that Americans could be th...
2.1K - Jun. 12, 2009; scored 279.0 U.S. releases four Gitmo detainees
WASHINGTON - Four Guantanamo Bay detainees have been released and resettled in Bermuda, U.S. officials said today. The four are part of a group of 17 Chinese Muslims who have been in legal limbo at the military detention center in Cuba. Abdul Nasser,...
3.5K - Jun. 11, 2009; scored 251.0 Palau agrees to take Guantanamo detainees
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - The tropical Pacific island nation of Palau announced today it will accept up to 17 Chinese Muslims who have languished in legal limbo at Guantanamo Bay despite a Pentagon determination that they are not enemy combatan...
1.0K - Jun. 10, 2009; scored 139.0 U.S. bring first Gitmo inmate to trial in N.Y.
WASHINGTON - U.S. authorities have brought the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to the United States, flying him into New York to face trial for bombing U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, the Justice Department said today. The department said Ahmed G...
4.3K - Jun. 9, 2009; scored 230.0 Obama calls for 2-state solution
WEIMAR, Germany (AP) President Barack Obama toured a World War II concentration camp today after prodding the international community to redouble efforts toward separate Israeli and Palestinian states in hopes of resolving a conflict fueled by the ...
5.7K - Jun. 5, 2009; scored 139.0 | 
