Sunday, April 25th, 2010 MIAMI (Reuters) - A military judge presiding over the first Guantanamo tribunal of the Obama era will seek to determine this week whether U.S. forces tortured a confession from a Canadian accused of murdering an American soldier in Afghanistan.
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Friday, January 8th, 2010 On Wednesday, Nigerian would-be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was indicted by a Michigan grand jury for attempted murder and sundry other criminal charges. The previous day, the State Department announced that his visa had been revoked. The system worked.
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — President Barack Obama is now confirming what many have long suspected: He will miss his January deadline to close the Guantanamo prison — partly because he cannot persuade other nations to take the detainees.
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Monday, November 9th, 2009 (RTTNews) - The U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says officials are reviewing which Guantanamo Bay detainees could face trial in American courts and that a decision on whether to try them in military or civilian courts would be taken by November 16.
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to decide whether federal courts have the power to order prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay to be released into the United States.
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 The Guantánamo detainee who was ordered by President Obama to face trial in civilian court has arrived in New York, and will appear Tuesday in Federal District Court in Manhattan, the Justice Department announced.
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Sunday, May 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. military officer on Sunday pushed for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison despite rising resistance in Congress, saying it serves as a "recruiting symbol" for America's enemies.
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The Senate voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to cut from a war spending bill the $80 million requested by President Obama to close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and to bar the transfer of detainees to the United States and its territories.
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - The CIA on Thursday rejected a request by former Vice President Dick Cheney that it make public documents that he said showed the effectiveness of using harsh interrogation methods on terrorism suspects.
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Saturday, February 21st, 2009 A Pentagon report requested by President Obama on the conditions at the Guantánamo Bay detention center concludes that the prison complies with the humanitarian requirements of the Geneva conventions, but it makes many recommendations for increasing human contact among the prisoners, according to two government officials who have read portions ...
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