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A Yemeni prisoner at Guantanamo Bay was released and sent to Italy after more than 14 years in custody, the Pentagon said Sunday. The release of Fayiz Ahmad Yahia Suleiman reduced the number of men held at the U.S. base in Cuba to 78. He was among about two dozen low-level Guantanamo prisoners expected to be released in the coming weeks.
A South American airline issued a memo to its employees Monday to be on the lookout for a former Guantanamo Bay detainee who was resettled in Uruguay after being freed by the U.S. and has since vanished. Danilo Alves, a spokesman for Colombia-based Avianca Airlines in Sao Paulo, told The Associated Press that the alert was issued internally to employees, but declined to give any more details.
A South American airline is asking its employees to be on the lookout for a former Guantanamo Bay detainee who was resettled in Uruguay after being freed by U.S. authorities. The alert about Syrian native Abu Wa'el Dhiab adds to a growing mystery about his whereabouts.
A man from Yemen who spent the past 14 years in custody at Guantanamo Bay has been freed and sent to the Balkan nation of Montenegro, the Pentagon said Wednesday, marking the start of what is expected to be a new round of releases from the U.S. base in Cuba. U.S. officials cleared Abdel Malik Abdel Wahab al-Rahabi for release in December 2014 after an intensive security review.
Sgt. Maj. of the Army Daniel A. Dailey gets instructions from U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Zachary Blanquer, a Joint Task Force Guantanamo Trooper, on how to properly steer and navigate through the bay in the speed boat, June 10, on U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
U.S. Sen. John Boozman this week called Senate passage of the National Defense Authorization Act "critical to our national security." "We are a nation at war.
Defying a White House veto threat, the Senate voted decisively Tuesday to approve a defense policy bill that authorizes $602 billion in military spending, bars shuttering the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and denies the Pentagon's bid to start a new round of military base closings. The GOP-led Senate's version of the National Defense Authorization Act passed 85 to 13, with all but seven members of the Democratic caucus backing the legislation.
For those Americans with a good memory, or are actually high information voters, you will remember the myriad of promises candidate Barack Obama made during the 2008 presidential campaign. He promised to be "the most transparent administration ever" which almost immediately was voided with the Solyndra scandal, "Fast and Furious ," the IRS scandal , among dozens of other covert activities.
The Obama administration is running out of time and options to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba, so officials are scrambling to release as many prisoners as possible and considering novel legal strategies that include allowing some men to strike plea deals by video-teleconference. Another option would be to send others to foreign countries to be prosecuted.
Former CIA captive will be seen for the first time in more than 10 years if he testifies at war court in Guantanamo as scheduled This screengrab of the GuantA namo captive Abu Zubaydah was taken from a video interview he made sometime between the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and his March 28, 2002 capture by U.S. intelligence agents in Faisalabad, Pakistan.
The Library of Congress will pay the former chief military prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay $100,000 and correct his personnel file to settle his claim that he was wrongly fired for criticizing military commissions for detainees. The deal announced Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union, which represented retired Air Force colonel Morris Davis, marks the end of a nearly seven-year free-speech case that tested the rights of federal employees to speak out as private citizens.
Military leaders are thinking about whether they will need a wheelchair lift, widen some cell doors and add ramps for geriatric captives in the Guantanamo three or four years from now. None of the 80 prisoners are now in wheelchairs and most are in their 30s or 40s.
USA president Barack Obama is scheduled to serve his last full day in the White House on 19 January 2017. When he looks back at the legacy of his administration, including the elimination of Osama bin Laden, introduction of Obamacare, initial steps towards normalising relations with Cuba, shutting down the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison for "combatants", and many others, are likely to be high on the list of his achievements during his eight-year presidency.
As a witness to the removal of fallen U.S. troops from Afghanistan, Army Chaplain Christopher John Antal can't recall a time when that solemn ceremony wasn't conducted without the presence of drones passing along the horizon. They were sleek and quiet, making a gentle humming noise as they flew over the flight lines - where aircraft can be parked and serviced - of the Kandahar airfield in Afghanistan, where he was stationed in 2012.
President Barack Obama speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016, to discuss the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Senate Republicans put forward a bill Wednesday that would send ISIS fighters to prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
An Afghan who once faced war crimes charges at Guantanamo has been cleared for release from the American military prison in Cuba, the US government has announced. The Periodic Review Board, which conducts parole-style hearings for Guantanamo prisoners, determined it was no longer necessary to detain the man, known by the single name of Obaidullah.