However Leon did find that a sixth Algerian man, seized alongside the other men in Bosnia-Hercegovina in 2001, had been legally detained. The ruling comes as Barack Obama, the US president-elect, has pledged to close the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay...
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Former Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks has broken his silence, saying a court-imposed control order makes it hard for him to get on with his life. The convicted terrorism supporter says he is very worried that the controversial control order obtained...
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The US military judge in the case of the accused mastermind of the September 11 attacks has decided to retire rather than continue to oversee the complex proceedings, defence officials said yesterday. Marine Col. Ralph Kohlmann, chief judge for the US...
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The 40-minute session at Obama's transition headquarters, their first meeting since Nov. 4 when Obama handily defeated McCain, was just the latest effort by the president-elect to heal wounds from the long and bitter campaign and seek help from his former...
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President-elect Barack Obama wants to see shifts in how some of the biggest economic problems are being handled, from helping the troubled auto industry to aiding homeowners fighting foreclosure, he said in an interview. While he's said there's only one...
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CBS reported that the president-elect's transition team has already asked the Pentagon what it would take to move the prisoners out of Guantanamo to the Navy base at Charleston, S.C. It's a clear sign that the new president intends to make good on one...
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They believe the move would create a global wave of diplomatic and popular goodwill that could accelerate the transfer of some detainees to other countries. But the advisers, as well as outside national security and legal experts, said the new administration...
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The American Civil Liberties Union says it has started an ad campaign urging U.S. President-elect Barack Obama to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. NYT ) calling for Obama to issue an executive order closing the military prison camp on Cuba holding...
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President-elect Barack Obama's transition team has begun examining what to do with suspected terrorists at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which Obama has pledged to close, an aide said Monday. Denis McDonough, a senior adviser to the incoming...
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President-elect Barack Obama should lift the 46-year-old trade embargo against Cuba, the head of human rights group Amnesty International said on Friday. Obama has said he would grant Cuban Americans unrestricted rights to visit Cuba and send cash to...
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