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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder spent days gingerly, privately asking for help before taking his plea public: The United States needs Europe’s assistance to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center.
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A federal judge has ordered a Yemeni man released from Guantanamo Bay.
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AP, Washington
House Democrats are refusing to pay for President Barack Obama’s plan to relocate prisoners from the Guantanamo detention facility where enemy combatants are...
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AP, Berlin
The United States has asked Germany to accept some Guantanamo prisoners when the facility is closed, the Interior Ministry said Sunday, confirming German media...
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AP, Washington
The Pentagon chief says federal authorities began discussions this week on where to send Guantanamo detainees who cannot be tried or transferred to another country.
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AP, United Nations
Military lawyers for two young Guantanamo detainees urged the U.S. on Wednesday to follow protocols it signed in 2002 on child soldiers and release the juveniles being...
made popular Apr 30 2009
AP, Berlin
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says Europe and the U.S. must “all make sacrifices” to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
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AP, Berlin
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says about 30 detainees have been cleared for release from Guantanamo Bay.
made popular Apr 29 2009
AP, Madrid
Spain’s top investigative magistrate has opened an investigation into the Bush administration over alleged torture of terror suspects at the Guantanamo prison.
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AP, Berlin
After privately asking European officials to take some freed Guantanamo Bay inmates, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is making a public appeal for help in closing a...
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AP, Prague
A European official says some Guantanamo Bay detainees will be released in Europe _ but not to his country.
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AP, London
British Justice Secretary Jack Straw said Monday his country would consider taking Guantanamo Bay detainees if the United States asks for such help to close the...
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AP, London
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says the United States is “relatively close” to making decisions on what to do with some Guantanamo Bay detainees.
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AP, Washington
It’s more than just a tough sell for Attorney General Eric Holder this week to persuade European allies to accept Guantanamo detainees.
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AP, Toronto
Canada’s foreign minister said Friday it will appeal a court ruling requiring it to ask the U.S. to return the last Western detainee at Guantanamo Bay to Canada....
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AP, Toronto
Canada’s Conservative government will appeal a court ruling that said it must ask the U.S. to return the last Western detainee at Guantanamo Bay to Canada.
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AP, Washington
A federal appeals court has for a second time rejected a lawsuit by Guantanamo Bay detainees who say they were tortured and denied religious rights.
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AP, Billings
President Barack Obama has 240 terror suspects he has said will be moved out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within a year. The city of Hardin has a brand-new empty jail.
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AP, San'a
The two young sons of a Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo died when a grenade they were playing with accidentally detonated inside their home, a human rights lawyer and the...
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AP, Newark
A Tunisian man detained after the Sept. 11 attacks was tortured at CIA-operated secret prisons in Afghanistan months before a Justice Department memo sanctioned the...
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Guantanamo Bay U.s. Naval Base:
In this image reviewed by the U.S. Military, a Guantanamo detainee stands inside a holding cell, photographed through a glass wall, at Camp 5 detention facility, at the U.S. Naval Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Nov. 19, 2008. A former Bush administration.
