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The Washington Post has an interesting article supporting the contention that harsh interrogation techniques such as sleep deprivation and waterboarding resulted in valuable intelligence from 9/11 attack planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: How a Detainee Became An Asset. These scenes provide previously unpublicized details about the transformation of the man ...
Guantanamo Bay, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, KSM, 9/11, CIA, Torture
I hope you’re sitting down, because one in 7 who leave Guantanamo are involved in terrorism. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Seventy-four, or one out of every seven, terrorism suspects formerly held at the U.S. detention site at Guantanamo Bay are confirmed or suspected of having returned to terrorism, the Pentagon ...
An excellent piece at Commentary by Arthur Herman on the history and purpose of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, and the unceasing distortions and falsehoods promoted by far-left groups: The Gitmo Myth and the Torture Canard. The standard argument is that the public shift in attitude toward Gitmo was ...
Guantanamo Bay, Terrorism, Military Tribunals, Torture, Barack Obama
Wow. Ninety to six. The honeymoon is over for Barack Obama and Congress: Senate votes to block funds for Guantanamo closure. WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major rebuke to President Barack Obama, the Senate voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to block the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to the United States ...
Guantanamo Bay, Terrorism, Military Tribunals, Barack Obama, Congress
Another flip-flop from the Obama administration, and another case where we have to give him a thumbs-up for doing the right thing even though you can already hear the shrieking from the left: Obama revives tribunals for Gitmo detainees. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he is restarting ...
Another excellent column from Charles Krauthammer: The Use of Torture and What Nancy Pelosi Knew. Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent’s life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this ...
Former CIA director Porter J. Goss has a column in the Saturday Washington Post on the sudden “epidemic of amnesia” among House Democrats about harsh interrogation techniques: Security Before Politics. A disturbing epidemic of amnesia seems to be plaguing my former colleagues on Capitol Hill. After the Sept. 11, ...
President Barack Obama is not only planning to release Guantanamo Bay inmates into the United States—he’s going to give them welfare. President Barack Obama’s intelligence chief confirmed Thursday that some Guantanamo inmates may be released on US soil and receive assistance to return to society. “If we are to ...
The National Geographic Channel has an interesting show coming up in April, a look at day-to-day operations Inside Guantanamo. [Video]
Well, isn’t this lovely: Some Guantanamo prisoners could be released in U.S. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Some of the Guantanamo Bay prisoners could be released into the United States while others could be put on trial in the American court system, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Wednesday. ...
The European countries who screamed the loudest for Guantanamo Bay to be closed are now hedging on accepting detainees for resettlement. European countries that have offered to help the Obama administration close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, by resettling detainees have begun raising questions about the security ...
The Justice Department says they will no longer describe the detainees at Guantanamo Bay as “enemy combatants.” WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration is abandoning one of President George W. Bush’s key phrases in the war on terrorism: enemy combatant. In court filings Friday, the Justice Department said it ...
Another prisoner released from Guantanamo turns suicide bomber, and the Washington Post finds a way to blame it on the US: A ‘Ticking Time Bomb’ Goes Off. But there is also a view in some quarters of the U.S. government that cases such as Ajmi’s are the inevitable result ...
The Barack Obama administration has dropped all charges against the mastermind of the USS Cole bombing. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon’s senior judge overseeing terror trials at Guantanamo Bay dropped charges Thursday against an al-Qaida suspect in the 2000 USS Cole bombing, upholding President Barack Obama’s order to freeze ...
An American Muslim teenager killed in a bombing by an ex-Gitmo detainee—ignored by mainstream media.
More freed Guantanamo detainees return to terrorism. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Eleven Saudis who were released from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and then passed through a Saudi rehabilitation program for former jihadists are now believed to have fled the country and joined terrorist groups abroad, Saudi officials said ...
Oh. So now Barack Obama is suddenly concerned that freed Guantanamo detainees might attack America again. After signing orders that will free them. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said in an interview aired on Monday he worried that detainees freed from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo, Cuba, ...
The top judge of the Guantanamo military tribunals has denied Barack Obama’s request to freeze the military commissions. “On its face, the request to delay the arraignment is not reasonable,” the judge, Army Col. James Pohl, wrote in his three-page ruling denying a prosecution request to delay Nashiri’s first ...
When Abu al-Hareth Muhammad al-Oufi was imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, he loudly, continually protested his innocence. He claimed he was on his way to Pakistan to help refugees, out of the kindness of his heart. Now that he’s resurfaced in Yemen as an Al Qaeda fighter, suddenly his story has ...
Peter Brown says that by closing Guantanamo Bay, Barack Obama is gambling none of the released detainees will come back to haunt him in 2012. By ordering the closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison and taking the fate its detainees out of his own hands, President Barack Obama is ...
A 9/11 family member chides the new President for closing Guantanamo terror camp. With his shameful order to close Guantanamo Bay, President Obama has perfectly filled the stereotype of the classic clueless ultra-Liberal - the one who can generate great passion for the rights of the guilty defendant and ...
There was a shooting attack today at a checkpoint near the US embassy in Yemen: Yemen: Gunshots fired near US embassy. SAN’A, Yemen – Gunmen in a car exchanged fire Monday with police at a checkpoint near the U.S. Embassy in Yemen’s capital, an Interior Ministry official said, hours ...
Europe has been overwhelmingly sympathetic to the terror suspects imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, so this seems like a very good idea. France is pushing for European Union countries to take 60 of the detainees deemed innocent but at risk of torture in their home country, according to a report ...
According to some estimates, at least 10 percent of the Al Qaeda terrorists released from Guantanamo Bay immediately return to the jihad, and here’s the latest example: Report: Ex-Gitmo detainee joins al-Qaida in Yemen. CAIRO, Egypt – A Saudi man released from Guantanamo after spending nearly six years inside ...
Guantanamo Bay, Terrorism, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 9/11, Barack Obama
On his first day in office, Barack Obama is preparing to keep one of his promises to the international left: Draft order calls for closing Guantanamo Bay. WASHINGTON (AP) — The new Obama administration circulated a draft executive order Wednesday that calls for closing the controversial detention center at ...
Guantanamo Bay, Terrorism, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 9/11, Barack Obama