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With President-elect Barack Obama mulling when and how to shut down the controversial detention center, recent court decisions have highlighted the legal challenges in transferring, releasing or holding Guantánamo Bay's 250 inmates...
...Barack Obama saw paths around many of the civil-liberty dilemmas that President Bush faced when he launched a war on al-Qaeda around the world. The freshman Senator from Illinois believed, and often claimed, that the White House could and should have avoided the shame of Guantánamo Bay, resisted the urge to engage in torture and shunned domestic eavesdropping...
...Crimson was able to keep the Bulls at bay, even with USF’s home field advantage. Junior Kwaku Nyamekye, who helped to control and set the pace for the game, led Harvard defensively, while classmate Andre Akpan and Fucito applied steady offensive pressure...
...Dampened by injuries, Harris and Housman had played only 18 and 20 minutes, respectively in the first two games, but turned in easily their best performances in the season in a hard, physical Bay State battle against the Crusaders. Harris went 23 minutes and put up nine points and eight rebounds, while swatting three shots. Housman played 20 minutes and also put up nine points to go with three assists, while manning the point in the final clutch minutes of the game...
...first federal court review of government evidence against Guantanamo Bay detainees, a judge ruled Nov. 20 that the Bush administration's case against five Algerians (first detained in Bosnia) was too weak to prevent their release. The hearing followed a June Supreme Court ruling giving the men the right to argue against their detention in court. In a rare move, Judge Richard Leon urged the government not to appeal the verdict, saying the men, who have been imprisoned for seven years, should be released "forthwith." (A sixth defendant was ruled an "enemy combatant" who should stay in government custody...