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Justice task force recommends about 50 Guantanamo detainees be held indefinitely

January 23rd, 2010 · Homeland Security, National Security, War on Terrorism

By Peter Finn – Friday, January 22, 2010

A Justice Department-led task force has concluded that nearly 50 of the 196 detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should be held indefinitely without trial under the laws of war, according to Obama administration officials.

The task force’s findings represent the first time that the administration has clarified how many detainees it considers too dangerous to release but unprosecutable because officials fear trials could compromise intelligence-gathering and because detainees could challenge evidence obtained through coercion.

Human rights advocates have bemoaned the administration’s failure to fulfill President Obama‘s promise last January to close the Guantanamo Bay facility within a year as well as its reliance on indefinite detention, a mechanism devised during George W. Bush‘s administration that they deem unconstitutional.

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Former Guantanamo detainees fuel growing al-Qaeda branch, complicating closure

December 29th, 2009 · Defense, Foreign Policy, Homeland Security, National Security, Terrorism from Within, War on Terrorism

By Sudarsan Raghavan Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, December 29, 2009; 5:38 PM

SANA’A, YEMEN — Former detainees of the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have led and fueled the growing assertiveness of the al-Qaeda branch that claimed responsibility for the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a U.S. airliner, potentially complicating the Obama administration’s efforts to shut down the facility.

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They include two Saudi nationals: al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s deputy leader, Said al-Shihri, and the group’s chief theological advisor, Ibrahim Suleiman al Rubaish. Months after their release to Saudi Arabia, both crossed the kingdom’s porous border into Yemen and rejoined the terrorist network.

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Al-Qaeda group in Yemen gaining prominence

December 28th, 2009 · Deception, Defense, Democrats, Ethics, Federal Spending, Foreign Policy, Government Control, Greed, Homeland Security, National Security, Obama's Scheme, Selling Out the US, Tax Dollars, Terrorism from Within, Treason

By Sudarsan RaghavanWashington Post Foreign Service
Monday, December 28, 2009

SANAA, YEMEN — The al-Qaeda branch linked to the attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight has for the past year escalated efforts to exploit Yemen’s instability and carve out a leadership role among terrorist groups, say Yemeni and Western officials, terrorism analysts, and tribal leaders.

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U.S. authorities say Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab, the Nigerian suspect who tried to ignite explosive chemicals with a syringe sewn into his underwear, may have been equipped and trained by an al-Qaeda bombmaker in Yemen. He allegedly made that claim to FBI agents after his arrest.

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Six Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay to be repatriated

December 19th, 2009 · Congress, Defense, Democrats, Ethics, Foreign Policy, Government Control, Homeland Security, National Security, Obama's Scheme, Selling Out the US, Terrorism from Within, Treason

By Peter Finn, Sudarsan Raghavan and Julie Tate – Friday, December 18, 2009; 5:04 AM

The Obama administration is planning to repatriate six Yemenis held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a transfer that could be a prelude to the release of dozens more detainees to Yemen, according to sources with independent knowledge of the matter.

The release is a significant first step toward dealing with the largest group of detainees at the prison — there are currently 97 Yemenis there — and toward meeting President Obama’s goal of closing the facility.

But Yemen’s security problems and lack of resources have spawned fears about its ability to monitor and rehabilitate returnees. Critics of the administration charge that returning detainees to Yemen, a country where al-Qaeda is believed to be thriving, is tantamount to returning terrorists to the battlefield.

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Illinois prison likely to house detainees

December 7th, 2009 · Corruption, Deception, Democrats, Economy, Ethics, Federal Spending, Government Control, Homeland Security, Immigration, National Security, Obama's Scheme, Selling Out the US, Terrorism from Within

Despite GOP concerns, facility seen as choice to replace Guantanamo

By Peter Slevin and Peter Finn Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, December 6, 2009

CHICAGO — Despite opposition from congressional Republicans, the Obama administration is signaling that a state prison in rural Thomson, Ill., will probably become the new home for scores of terrorism suspects now housed at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Officials from the White House, Defense Department and U.S. Bureau of Prisons spent two hours last week briefing more than a dozen members of the Illinois congressional delegation in the office of Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.). To reassure skeptical Republicans, they emphasized security.

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4 from Guantanamo are sent to Europe

December 1st, 2009 · Defense, Democrats, Ethics, Foreign Policy, Homeland Security, Immigration, National Security, Obama Nominees, Obama's Scheme, Selling Out the US, Supreme Court, Terrorism from Within

Detainees, one part of Supreme Court case, going to three countries

By Peter Finn and Julie Tate – Tuesday, December 1, 2009

The Obama administration transferred four detainees from Guantanamo Bay to three European countries Monday, including an Algerian national who was part of a landmark Supreme Court case on the legal rights of those held at the naval base in Cuba, according to sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Saber Lahmar, a former legal resident of Bosnia, was expected to land early Tuesday local time in France, which earlier this year also accepted Lakhdar Boumediene, an Algerian who was also first detained in Bosnia. Boumediene lent his name to the 2008 court decision in which Guantanamo inmates won the right to challenge their detention in federal court; Lahmar was also a plaintiff in that case.

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Court sides with government in detainee photo case

November 30th, 2009 · Defense, Homeland Security, National Security, Supreme Court, War on Terrorism

The Associated Press
Monday, November 30, 2009; 10:16 AM

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has thrown out an appeals court ruling ordering the disclosure of photographs of detainees being abused by their U.S. captors.

In doing so Monday, the high court cited a recent change in federal law that allows the pictures to be withheld.

The justices issued a brief, and expected, order Monday directing the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York to take another look at a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union to obtain the photos of detainee abuse. President Barack Obama at first didn’t oppose the release, but he changed his mind, saying they could whip up anti-American sentiment overseas and endanger U.S. troops.

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Ex-detainees’ woes in Yemen add to U.S. fears of releasing others

November 29th, 2009 · Defense, Homeland Security, National Security, Non-Transparency, Selling Out the US, Terrorism from Within, War on Terrorism

By Sudarsan Raghavan Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 29, 2009

ADEN, YEMEN — Two years ago, Mohsin al-Askari was released from his prison cell at Guantanamo Bay, but he has found neither freedom nor a new life in his homeland. Potential employers are afraid to hire him. At 28, he depends on his father for financial support, charities for medical care.

With each rejection, his frustration grows, as does the temptation to return to his old life of jihad.

“The government hasn’t done anything to help me,” said Askari, his voice filled with bitterness.

Yemen’s handling of former Guantanamo detainees and accused extremists in its own jails has raised fears that sending detainees back to this nation, the poorest in the Arab world, might only create more militants determined to attack America.

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Key coordinator of detainee policy quits

November 25th, 2009 · Dissention, Homeland Security, Obama Exposed

By Peter Finn Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 25, 2009

A key official in the Obama administration’s effort to remake detention policy and close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay has resigned.

Phillip Carter, who was appointed deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee policy in April, said in a brief telephone interview that he was leaving for “personal and family reasons” and not because of any policy differences with the administration. He tendered his resignation Friday, Pentagon officials said.

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