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...will release five of nine British citizens now detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba within the next 24 hours, according to British Home Secretary David Blunkett...
...currently detaining approximately 640 terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay and has already transferred 12 to their home countries...
...They're enemy combatants and terrorists who are being detained for acts of war against our country. That is why different rules have to apply." DONALD RUMSFELD, Defense Secretary, explaining the indefinite detention of foreign terrorism suspects in Guantanamo...
...fallout from the evolving civil war in the Western hemisphere's poorest nation could eventually be felt in Florida. Throughout the early 1990s, thousands of refugees made their way to U.S. shores to escape violence and repression in Haiti, and their initial incarceration at the U.S. military facility at Guantanamo Bay was an election issue in the Sunshine State in 1992. It was the flow of refugees following the 1991 coup that overthrew President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991 that eventually prompted the Clinton administration in 1994 to send in the troops...
...lawyers plan to file a friend-of-the-court brief in Odah v. United States, which seeks to give Guantanamo captives the right to challenge their detention in civilian court. "The Constitution cannot countenance an open-ended presidential power with no civilian review whatsoever," the brief argues, "to try anyone the President deems subject to a military tribunal, whose rules and judges have been selected by the prosecuting authority itself." Did the dissenting military lawyers meet resistance? Said one of the five, Lieut. Commander Charles Swift: "I'm going to characterize it as institutional surprise." The high court is expected...