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...Supreme Court's ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld totals 185 pages and can be summarized in two words: Start over. If the Bush Administration wants to try terrorism suspects at Guantánamo Bay in special military tribunals, it can't just declare them legal--it needs to work with the other branches of government to make them so. That in itself was a rebuke to the Administration's claim that it alone can decide how to defend Americans from terrorism. What the court did not say--despite the exultation of civil libertarians and the outrage of advocates of executive power...
...living. I hope that some forward-looking politicians will be able to change India for the better. Mani Madathil Kaarst, Germany Teen Detainees I am truly appalled at how the U.S. - the self-proclaimed protector of democracy and human rights - continues to violate basic human rights at Guantánamo Bay [June 5]. Is there any evidence that detaining and questioning those prisoners has protected the lives of Americans at all? What acute danger did 15-year-old Omar Khadr pose that warranted his detention with adults? If there is evidence, then put him on trial; otherwise, release...
CUBA CARIBBEAN SEA Santiago de Cuba Las Guásimas El Caney El Pozo Siboney Daiquirí Guantánamo Bay Caimanera Fort Toro Fisherman's Point CUBA Havana Map area...
...announcing three suicides in the U.S. detention camp at Guantánamo, Cuba, this month, officials described the inmates in much the same terms President Bush used in 2003 when he said, "The only thing I know for certain is that these are bad people." This, despite the fact that few of the Gitmo detainees have been charged with a crime, and none has been convicted...
...fashioned a most adventurous filmography. He has made period tragedies (Jude) and comedies (Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story), but his true métier is the political docudrama set in lands scorched by war: Bosnia for Welcome to Sarajevo, Afghanistan for In This World. The Road to Guantánamo is his most unsparing statement yet of war's brutalizing effect on both the prisoner and his jailer...