http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Guantánamo 60 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:53:56 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/719292.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/719292.html Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:55 EDT China on Thursday rejected concerns that it would torture Chinese Muslims held by the U.S. military at Guantánamo Bay if they are returned to China, saying they will be dealt with lawfully. http://www.miamiherald.com/1339/story/679520.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1339/story/679520.html Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:38 EDT An interactive site covering enemy combatants and the courts, from 2001 http://www.miamiherald.com/1339/story/679518.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1339/story/679518.html Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:37 EDT The Miami Herald's Guantánamo archive http://www.miamiherald.com/1339/story/679515.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1339/story/679515.html Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:35 EDT An eight-month probe by McClatchy of U.S. war-on-terror detention policy and practices, from Afghanistan to Guantánamo Bay http://www.miamiherald.com/1339/story/322461.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1339/story/322461.html Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:19 EDT The prison camps census, war crimes tribunals and more http://www.miamiherald.com/1339/story/679509.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1339/story/679509.html Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:30 EDT An interactive illustrated Who's Who guide http://www.miamiherald.com/1339/story/679510.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1339/story/679510.html Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:33 EDT How the detention center has evolved across six years http://www.miamiherald.com/1339/story/679506.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1339/story/679506.html Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:26 EDT In the theater, books and music http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/603093.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/603093.html Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:01 EDT John McCain and Barack Obama offer different visions on handling the detainees. http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/586868.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/586868.html Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:15 EDT This was a sleepy Navy outpost before the U.S. began using it to hold prisoners in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks -- and it may soon become one again. http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/572714.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/572714.html Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:01 EDT Side-by-side with violent extremists at Guantánamo, low-level detainees are being built into new fighting machines. And they hate the United States. http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/409334.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/409334.html Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:48 EST Somewhere on this isolated outpost, strictly off-limits from the Pentagon's media tour, is a secret prison camp housing 15 alleged senior al Qaeda captives called ''high-value detainees.'' It is Camp 7, and run by a special unit code-named Task Force Platinum. http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/382603.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/382603.html Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:01 EST Icon unmasked: Study finds that, six years after the Pentagon opened the prison camps with 20 detainees, at least seven captives photographed on their knees have been sent to their homelands. http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/375017.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/375017.html Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:01 EST The first surprise may be that the most damning, enduring images of the prison camps at Guantánamo were taken by a U.S. sailor. It was his job, on assignment to an elite Defense Department unit called Combat Camera at the remote Navy base that day the first detainees arrived Jan. 11, 2002. http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/342445.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/342445.html Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:22 EST U.S. military personnel at Guantánamo Bay called Fidel Castro a transsexual and defended the prison for terrorism suspects in anonymous Web postings, an Internet group that publishes government documents said Wednesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/308385.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/308385.html Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:01 EST Detainees were denied Red Cross visits and mail, had criticism of the U.S. leaders censored from their letters and were isolated without Korans, a once-secret prison camps manual reveals. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/717389.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/717389.html Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:01 EDT A federal judge ordered the U.S. government Tuesday to release and transfer to the United States 17 China-born Muslims detained for almost seven years at Guantánamo. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/715215.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/715215.html Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:32 EDT Taliban representatives met with Afghan government officials last month in Saudi Arabia, a former high-level Taliban ambassador said Monday, but he denied the meeting could be construed as peace talks. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/713797.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/713797.html Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:23 EDT Unlike recent years, the court hasn't yet scheduled a Guantánamo Bay or obvious national-security case, though they might yet arise. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/712326.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/712326.html Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:07 EDT War court prosecutors argue that Osama bin Laden's driver shouldn't get credit for time served at Guantánamo toward his terror conviction. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/712411.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/712411.html Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:12 EDT A Pentagon appointee Friday spurned a prosecutor's request for a death penalty trial in approving war crimes charges against a former CIA-held captive at Guantánamo accused of a role in al Qaeda's 1998 East Africa embassies bombings. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/710420.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/710420.html Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:12 EDT A senior advisor to Sen. Barack Obama said Thursday that the Democrat might see Defense Secretary Robert Gates as a candidate to remain at the Pentagon if Obama wins the White House. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/699348.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/699348.html Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:58 EDT Confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed called his military commission an ''inquisition'' Wednesday in a failed effort to get his military judge to stop presiding at the 9/11 mass murder trial. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/697457.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/697457.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:01 EDT What to do with Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's driver, illustrates how much the Pentagon is still improvising war-on-terror detention policy -- six years after the Bush administration opened the prison camps in remote southeast Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/693830.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/693830.html Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:17 EDT The Defense Department strips a controversial can-do general of legal authority at military commissions but creates for him a job as war court czar in charge of logistics from the Pentagon to Guantánamo. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/691458.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/691458.html Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:09 EDT The leading U.S. psychologists' association has voted to ban its members from taking part in interrogations at the U.S. military detention sites where it believes international law is being violated. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/691293.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/691293.html Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:28 EDT For six years, and for no pay, Dennis Edney has represented Omar Khadr, one of the next prisoners at Guantánamo Bay to face trial in a military tribunal system that the lawyer calls a sham. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/691297.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/691297.html Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:29 EDT German lawmakers have found no evidence that German special forces in Afghanistan abused a prisoner who later spent years in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/681520.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/681520.html Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:01 EDT This time of year especially, Carole O'Hare gets stuck in a sad reverie at her California home, wondering about the last moments of her mother's life, alone, aboard the hijacked Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/681318.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/681318.html Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:05 EDT The Pentagon's war crimes prosecutor on Wednesday swore out terror charges against a 28-year-old captive here who allegedly hid tank mines in Afghanistan meant to kill occupying U.S. forces. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/676741.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/676741.html Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:44 EDT Off-duty sailors and their families as well as prison camp staff spent the day indoors Sunday, rather than the usual beach and deep-sea fishing activity at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/673836.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/673836.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:30 EDT A former Bush administration official responsible for detainee operations urged the Pentagon on Friday to replace the war court's top lawyer -- an Air Force Reserves general whom three military judges have excluded from portions of military commissions at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/670343.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/670343.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:07 EDT The Pentagon sent three more war-on-terror captives home from Guantánamo this weekend -- two to Afghanistan and one to Pakistan. On Wednesday, the Justice Department named them in federal court filings. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/658895.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/658895.html Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:06 EDT The U.S. military sent home two more war-on-terror detainees, both to Algeria, and canceled Red Cross visits to other prisoners Tuesday ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Gustav at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/654169.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/654169.html Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:28 EDT Three Arab men braided nooses from bedsheets and T-shirts to hang themselves in 2006 at the Guantánamo Bay prison camps, and left notes appearing to protest the military's forced feeding regime and treatment of the Koran, according to a Navy investigation partially made public on Friday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/644055.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/644055.html Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:15 EDT An alleged al Qaeda filmmaker with a flair for the dramatic set the stage for the first no-contest war crimes trial Friday by declaring a boycott until he is sentenced. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/642000.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/642000.html Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:08 EDT For a second time, a military judge Thursday barred a U.S. general at the Pentagon from acting as a legal advisor in the trial of an accused terrorist at the Guantánamo war court. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/717389.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/717389.html Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:02 EDT A federal judge ordered the U.S. government Tuesday to release and transfer to the United States 17 China-born Muslims detained for almost seven years at Guantánamo. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/699348.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/699348.html Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:58 EDT Confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed called his military commission an ''inquisition'' Wednesday in a failed effort to get his military judge to stop presiding at the 9/11 mass murder trial. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/700445.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/700445.html Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:35 EDT An Army prosecutor has resigned from the Guantánamo war court in a crisis of conscience over plans to try a young Afghan accused of throwing a grenade rather than settle the case out of court, according to an affidavit filed with the court Wednesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/698924.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/698924.html Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:18 EDT The military judge presiding at the Sept. 11 war crimes trial revealed that he is a Christian -- but would not discuss torture -- during questioning directly from the reputed al Qaeda kingpin Khalid Sheik Mohammed on Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/698448.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/698448.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:45 EDT The chief judge for military commissions disclosed Tuesday at the war court that he will retire from the U.S. Marine Corps in seven months and may not preside over the full Sept. 11, 2001, mass murder terror trial. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/697457.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/697457.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:49 EDT What to do with Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's driver, illustrates how much the Pentagon is still improvising war-on-terror detention policy -- six years after the Bush administration opened the prison camps in remote southeast Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/697187.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/697187.html Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:35 EDT Alleged 9/11 go-between Ramzi bin al Shibh refused to leave his prison camp cell Monday, prompting a day-long standoff on how to hold a pretrial hearing in the complex capital conspiracy case. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/688669.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/688669.html Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:24 EDT The Pentagon Tuesday announced a Nov. 10 war crimes trial date for alleged Canadian teen terrorist Omar Khadr, meaning the terror murder trial will follow both the U.S. and Canada's elections and likely straddle American Thanksgiving. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/717710.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/717710.html Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:53 EDT The U.N.'s new human rights chief said urges governments worldwide to ensure they follow international rights standards while tackling threats from terrorism. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/683539.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/683539.html Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:54 EDT A legal officer with Canada's foreign affairs department complained a few months ago that her efforts to ensure proper medical care and prison conditions for a young Canadian detainee at Guantánamo Bay were being stymied by his American captors, newly released documents reveal. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/658923.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/658923.html Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:52 EDT Poland's prime minister has requested an investigation into allegations there were secret prisons in the country used by the CIA to hold and question terror suspects between 2001 and 2004. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/634625.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/634625.html Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:50 EDT Lawyers for Canadian detainee Omar Khadr at the U.S. military detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, have filed suit against Canada's prime minister to try to force him to repatriate the terror suspect. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/626534.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/626534.html Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:19 EDT A lawyer for a Guantánamo Bay detainee appealed to Britain's High Court on Friday for the release of secret government documents that he says could raise questions about whether evidence in his client's upcoming trial was obtained by torture. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/600089.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/600089.html Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:25 EDT Canadian officials knew in 2004 that a Toronto teen held at Guantánamo Bay was deprived of sleep for weeks to soften him up for interrogation, newly released documents say. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/593282.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/593282.html Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:49 EDT In a first, the Pentagon said this week it sent home two Algerians from the Guantánamo Bay detention center. The latest transfer operation from the remote U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba reduced the prison camp population to ''approximately 265,'' according to a Pentagon statement issued late Wednesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/593141.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/593141.html Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:45 EDT Yemen's government held talks Thursday with a visiting U.S. delegation in hopes of securing the release of about 100 Yemenis held at the Guantánamo Bay prison, a Yemeni official said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/718855.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/718855.html Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:10 EDT txt The Pentagon said Wednesday it had sent home two more war-on-terror detainees from the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba -- one to Sudan, the other to Algeria. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/718826.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/718826.html Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:35 EDT A federal appeals court on Wednesday temporarily blocked a judge's decision to immediately free 17 Chinese Muslims at Guantánamo Bay into the United States. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/717389.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/717389.html Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:01 EDT A federal judge ordered the U.S. government Tuesday to release and transfer to the United States 17 China-born Muslims detained for almost seven years at Guantánamo. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/715215.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/715215.html Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:32 EDT Taliban representatives met with Afghan government officials last month in Saudi Arabia, a former high-level Taliban ambassador said Monday, but he denied the meeting could be construed as peace talks.