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Since last summer, the Pentagon has been conducting reviews of each of the 567 post-9/11 detainees being held at the U.S. naval base in Guant??namo Bay to determine whether they should continue to be designated "enemy combatants"--and thus subject to indefinite detention during wartime. U.S. officials tell TIME the tribunals have recommended that more than 36 of these detainees be reclassified as "nonenemy combatants"--in other words, free...
...tribunal then decides a second time that a detainee is eligible for release will the Pentagon actually sign off. A Pentagon spokesman would not comment on the more than 30 detainees whose fate is in limbo. But to critics of the Pentagon's treatment of detainees at Guant??namo, the continuing delays are inexcusable. Says Neal Sonnett, the American Bar Association's observer at Gitmo: "Some of these people have been detained for three years, and we should do everything possible to be sure that we don't detain innocent people one minute longer than we have to." By Timothy...
Coming Home British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw announced that after "intensive and complex discussions," the U.S. government would release the remaining four Britons being held at Guantá namo Bay. The release, expected within weeks, would bring to an end an embarrassing diplomatic tussle between Downing Street and its closest ally; the detainees' three-year confinement and allegations of mistreatment and torture have triggered a huge outcry in Britain. But what will happen to the men - Feroz Abbasi, Moazzam Begg, Richard Belmar and Martin Mubanga - isn't clear. While the Pentagon, which also plans to release an Australian detainee, said...
Graner's attorney has said his client and the other MPs are "scapegoats." But the presiding judge has refused defense attempts to subpoena higher-ups like Donald Rumsfeld. The Pentagon, the FBI and the CIA are still investigating prisoner mistreatment in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guant??namo Bay, but no high-ranking official has faced charges so far. Some have even been promoted. --By Mitch Frank
...last week brought another development that will undoubtedly be probed: the New England Journal of Medicine reported that military medical personnel in Iraq and Guant??namo were providing interrogators with information about detainees' medical conditions and helping craft interrogation strategies...