Word: cuba
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tiny strip of land on the southeastern coast of Cuba, 600 men wait. They wait for a trial, for a lawyer, even for a charge against them. These men, most of whom U.S. military forces captured in Afghanistan and Pakistan over the past two years, have been denied their basic judicial rights...
...cases before the court involve the legality of the United States’ creation of an extrajudicial system in Cuba. U.S. Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson provided the main tenets of the government’s position in the Rasul case. According to his brief, the prisoners should not be considered prisoners of war. This argument is dubious at best. These prisoners—most allegedly linked in some way to Taliban forces—ought to be classified as POWs and afforded the rights called for by the Geneva Convention...
This series of networking opportunities began when over 45 students filled Sever 102 to hear the former Canadian ambassador to Cuba, the former Finnish ambassador to Israel and Cyprus and a veteran of the French diplomatic corps—all Weatherhead Center fellows—discuss their experiences...
...some instances, such as when a citizen is imprisoned, ambassadors often get a taste of the “seamier side of life,” according to Michael Small, the former Canadian ambassador to Cuba...
Chomsky’s most recent blunder came on his Oct. 28 lecture in Cuba. With Cuban President Fidel Castro in the audience, Chomsky argued that, after the failed effort in Iraq, Bush and his cronies would have to “manufacture” another enemy in order to be re-elected...