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...they struggle through a contentious intraparty fight over health care, Democrats are facing another internal battle set for the coming days, this time over a key national-security issue: the fate of the prisoners at Guantánamo Bay. Since even before taking office, the Obama Administration has been trying to figure out how to close the notorious detention facility. In his first week on the job the President declared that Gitmo would be shut down by the end of the year. But fulfilling that promise has proved a major challenge, and Democrats on Capitol Hill are divided over whether...
...used thus far in the battle, and it would block Obama not only from moving the most dangerous individuals to the U.S. for detention, but from even bringing in 40 or so others for trials in either regular courts or in military commissions. (See pictures from inside Guantanamo Bay's detention facilities...
...White House is still struggling to come up with one. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Oct. 27 that it would be "tough" for the Administration to close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility by Jan. 22, 2010, the deadline it set for itself on taking office. And the Administration is scrambling to come up with enough details to convince skeptical Senators before the House and Senate bills go to conference. Says one Administration official, "Everyone's thinking this could be the last issue decided in the last conference report" of the legislative year...
...Witless Bay Ecological Reserve About 40 minutes south of St. John's, the small fishing community of Bay Bulls is the departure point for puffin-and whale-watching cruises through this reserve. It's home to a half-million-strong Atlantic-puffin colony that is North America's largest. A 90-minute catamaran trip with marine-tour operator Gatherall's, www.gatheralls.com, will whisk you out to Gull Island, which teems with birdlife during the April to August breeding season. From July, humpback whales begin to arrive: keep your eyes peeled...
...took complete control of the group sometime around 2002, Abu Sayyaf renewed its ideological fervor for independence and refocused its efforts on bombmaking. In 2004 the group took responsibility for the most deadly terrorist attack in the history of the Philippines: the 2004 bombing of a ferry in Manila Bay that killed 116 people. By mid-2005, the Philippine government says Jemaah Islamiyah, the Southeast Asian terrorist group responsible for the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, had trained some 60 members of Abu Sayyaf to make bigger, better explosives. Two Jemaah Islamiyah bombmakers connected with the Bali bombings...