By Amy Goodman, Truthdig, Nov. 16, 2010 “Gitmo is going to remain open for the foreseeable future,” said an unnamed White House official to The Washington Post this week. For guidance on the notorious U.S. Navy base in Cuba, President…
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Former Guantánamo Prisoner, Tortured by Al-Qaeda and the US, Launches Futile Attempt to Hold America Accountable
By Andy Worthington, October 11, 2010 Last June, in the District Court in Washington D.C., a ruling was delivered on the habeas corpus petition of a Syrian prisoner in Guantánamo, Abdul Rahim al-Janko (also identified as Abdul Rahim al-Ginco), which…
Guantánamo is now Obama’s kangaroo court
Photo: Allan Lissner Obama Bravely Takes on a Tortured Child Soldier Torturing the Rule of Law at Obama’s Gitmo By Chase Madar, Counterpunch, July 30-August 1, 2010 President Obama may lack the nerve to stare down Liz Cheney or Bibi…
Who Are The Four Afghans Released From Guantánamo?
by Andy Worthington, December 23, 2009 Over the weekend, 12 prisoners were released from Guantánamo, as the Justice Department announced in a press release on December 20. I have previously reported the stories of the two Somalis who were released…
Arrogance And Torture: A History of Guantánamo
by Andy Worthington, August 18, 2009 The mesh-wire cages, suitable only for animals, are empty now and overgrown, but they will stand forever as a symbol of the Bush administration’s inept, brutal and destructive “War on Terror” policies, implemented in…
Guantanamo on the Brink
Death Looms for Inmates Amid Hunger Strikes and Beatings by Mark Townsend and Paul Harris, Independent UK. Posted on Alternet, February 9, 2009. Lieutenant-Colonel Yvonne Bradley, an American military lawyer, will step through the grand entrance of the Foreign and…
Majority of Canadians support US war resisters
Canadians prefer tangible foreign aid to value spreading: Poll by Norma Greenaway, Canwest News Service Published: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 OTTAWA – Canadians say providing bridges, roads and other forms of concrete foreign assistance is more important than spreading such Canadian…
The Collapse of Omar Khadr’s Guantánamo Trial
by Andy Worthington, Antiwar.com, Oct. 28, 2008 Hardly a day goes by without some extraordinary news from the military commissions, the system of “terror trials” conceived in the office of the vice president in November 2001, and their days now…
Repatriate Omar Khadr
Omar Khadr has been detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay since he captured by the U.S. military in Afghanistan in 2002. At the time of his capture he was 15 years old. Omar Khadr is the youngest detainee and the…
Canada, Guantanamo and Yankee Poodles
Stephen Harper, Bush’s Last Yes Man? by Robert Fantina Counterpunch, July 12/13, 2008 During the administration of Tony Blair as Prime Minister of Britain, he was sometimes referred to as the ‘Yankee Poodle,’ due to the constant and humiliating spectacle…