Imprisoned For Life Without Trial
Obama's New Gitmo Policy Is A Lot Like Bush's Old Policy
By Dana Milbank
With Monday's announcement that the Obama administration will resume military tribunals at Gitmo, conservatives rushed out triumphant I-told-you-sos. Liberal supporters were again feeling betrayed. Ref. Source 1
Mohammed Jawad, A Child in Guantánamo, and the Lawyer Who Fought for Him:
Every now and then, someone in the mainstream media cuts through the general - and shameful - indifference about Guantánamo, publishing a powerful story that should change hearts and minds. Ref. Source 9
Afghan Guantanamo prisoner commits suicide, US military says:
An Afghan man being held at the Guantanamo Bay military prison camp in Cuba has been found dead, after apparently committing suicide, the US military said, DPA reported. Ref. Source 9
WikiLeaks cables reveal more juveniles detained at Guantanamo Bay than U.S. Claimed:
The University of California Davis Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas reported that the number of children imprisoned at Guantanamo is almost twice as many as it reported to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. Ref. Source 5
Ex-Gitmo detainee killed in Afghanistan:
The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) announced on Saturday that a "combined Afghan and coalition security force" had killed "a key affiliate of the al Qaeda network during a security operation in Jalalabad district, Nangarhar province." Ref. Source 7
Russia bans entry to some US officials:
The Foreign Ministry said in a statement Saturday it was blacklisting unspecified U.S. Officials it claims were involved in the abductions of alleged terrorism suspects, the torture of inmates at Guantanamo prison, the killings of civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the abductions or abuse of Russians in the United States. It did not say how many U.S. Officials were affected. Ref. Source 9