Word: gitmo
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TRANSFERRED Osama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Hamdan, will be transferred to Yemen to serve the remainder of his 5 1/2--year sentence, despite arguments that he should not receive credit for the time he spent at Gitmo...
RELEASED Five Algerians held at Gitmo for nearly seven years but never charged were set free by a federal judge, who said the Justice Department failed to prove they were "enemy combatants...
HELD Cleared in 2004, 17 Chinese Muslims have remained at Gitmo because no country but China will accept them; the men argue they will be tortured if returned to their homeland...
Obama could fulfill his campaign pledge to close Gitmo by simply issuing an Executive Order. But that would pose the question of what to do with the 225 suspected terrorists detained there who would suddenly have no home. If brought to the U.S. for trial, they would fall under constitutional guarantees of due process, which includes the right to confront their accuser and review all evidence against them. That may not fly with top terrorism hunters, who rely on informants and classified evidence. Because some of the evidence looks to have been gathered during harsh interrogations that...
...even if Gitmo is shuttered, that still leaves the matter of those militants captured more recently in the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere whom Obama says he intends to more fully prosecute. Such knotty questions have led some experts to bet that while he will scale Gitmo back as quickly as possible, Obama won't fully close it in 2009. They point out that the Bush Administration has already quietly discharged some 500 of the 700 prisoners who have been held there...