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Since last summer, the Pentagon has been conducting reviews of each of the 567 post-9/11 detainees being held at the U.S. naval base in Guant??namo Bay to determine whether they should continue to be designated "enemy combatants"--and thus subject to indefinite detention during wartime. U.S. officials tell TIME the tribunals have recommended that more than 36 of these detainees be reclassified as "nonenemy combatants"--in other words, free...
...theory - lent weight by a confession Habib has since retracted - made the then 46-year-old too risky to release. As a result, he has spent three years behind bars, first in an Egyptian jail where he claims he was tortured, then at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He's also been in a legal no man's land, deemed an "enemy combatant" but neither charged with a crime nor declared a prisoner of war. A military tribunal last year found that Habib was "a member of, or affiliated with, al-Qaeda forces, or associated forces...
Coming Home British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw announced that after "intensive and complex discussions," the U.S. government would release the remaining four Britons being held at Guantá namo Bay. The release, expected within weeks, would bring to an end an embarrassing diplomatic tussle between Downing Street and its closest ally; the detainees' three-year confinement and allegations of mistreatment and torture have triggered a huge outcry in Britain. But what will happen to the men - Feroz Abbasi, Moazzam Begg, Richard Belmar and Martin Mubanga - isn't clear. While the Pentagon, which also plans to release an Australian detainee, said...
...Bay in the absence of a lawyer would not be admissible. (Five other British prisoners released in March were briefly detained, then freed without charge.) But the arguments may not be over yet. Abbasi and Mubanga's lawyer, Louise Christian, says she is considering taking American officials to court. "I'm also looking at suing the British government," she says, "for not bringing them back sooner." - By Aatish Taseer No Vote GERMANY The governing Social Democratic Party decided not to hold a national referendum on the proposed new European Union constitution. The parliament will vote on the document instead. Stubbing...
...wouldn’t be such an electric, riveting affair. Would you rather see the confusing parity that now exists in the NFL, where every year is a crapshoot, and teams come out of nowhere one year (hello Carolina) before quickly fading the next (goodbye Tampa Bay...