Word: namo
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...those who have long advocated - and agitated for - the closure of the Guantánamo Bay prison camp, today is a day to savor. Keeping his campaign promise, President Barack Obama issued an Executive Order to shut down the prison within a year and to halt the use of controversial interrogation techniques. "The message that we are sending around the world is that the United States intends to prosecute the ongoing struggle against violence and terrorism and we are going to do so vigilantly," Obama said at a signing ceremony in the Oval Office. "We are going...
...former counsel on detainee issues to the State Department. How long could it take? Experts consulted by TIME say there's a good chance there will still be some detainees at the prison deep into 2009, and possibly into 2010. (See pictures from inside Guantánamo...
...State Department cajoles foreign governments to take many of the detainees, it will fall to the Justice Department to decide where the rest of them will be held and tried. Since 9/11, federal courts have convicted 145 people on international terrorism charges vs. just two convictions from Guantánamo's military commissions. The eastern district of Virginia and southern district of New York have a great deal of experience with terrorism trials...
...treatment met the legal definition of torture.' SUSAN CRAWFORD, who oversees military trials at Guantánamo Bay, on why she halted the case of Mohammed al-Qahtani, a suspected 9/11 mastermind...
...Changing policy priorities in Latin America shouldn't be that tall an order. Nor should the more symbolic gestures - like Obama's plans to close the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo or lift Bush's draconian restrictions on Cuban-American travel and remittances to Cuba - which mean a lot in a region where Monroe Doctrine is a dirty term. If Obama demonstrates that he's more interested in helping Haiti with green-energy projects like jatropha-seed oil than he is in making Bolivia eradicate more and more coca bushes, or more committed to steering U.S. aid toward...