http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/guantanamobay/ en-us Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:47:05 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2134418/posts War On Terror: The closing of our prisoner-of-war camp at Guantanamo Bay is high on the agenda of the new administration. Will the detainees soon be free to return to the battlefield or roam our streets?On Sunday's "60 Minutes," President-elect Obama confirmed his intention to close Guantanamo Bay and try the detainees in American courts. But where will they be housed and what happens if they are released? The devil is in the details. If Gitmo goes, the detainees awaiting trial likely would not be held in U.S. jails or prisons since they have not been found guilty of anything.... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2134418/posts#comment Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:47:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2134203/posts President-elect Obama has promised to close the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo (Gitmo) Bay, Cuba even though the alternatives are unattractive. But before he shutters that facility the new president must resolve the underlying problem that made Gitmo infamous. The problem that torpedoed Gitmo was the government's failure to identify the appropriate means to handle captured terrorists who haven't committed a "crime" but undoubtedly would if left free to roam. To what legal process are these terror suspects entitled if they are going to be detained long-term? Otherwise, the legal issues related to Gitmo have been resolved by three Supreme... humanevents.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2134203/posts#comment Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:14:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2134089/posts The forces pushing Barack Obama to close Guantanamo Bay holding facility for captured terrorists, will settle for nothing less. Obama will have to shut it down. They don’t care that doing this puts America in grave danger they want what they want. To insure “fairness” these vicious terrorists will be brought to American soil for federal trails as if they were bank robbers. For PR purposes some will be tried in New York’s Eastern and Southern District Federal courtrooms where some will gain acquittal. They will be represented by Public Defenders paid for with our money. One of these lawyers... The Collins Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2134089/posts#comment Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:13:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133375/posts Barack Obama has pledged to restore America's ailing economy and its "moral stature in the world". He made the comments during his first major televised interview since being voted America's 44th president earlier this month. The President-elect told CBS programme 60 Minutes he would deliver a clear break in foreign policy from the Bush administration. Mr Obama confirmed reports he will pull troops out of Iraq and limit the offshoots of the "war on terror", including bringing an end to the notorious Guantanamo Bay. He said the moves were an effort to "regain America's moral stature in the world". But... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133375/posts#comment Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:54:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2133276/posts Most liberals have no sympathy for babies who are deliberately delivered prematurely and left to die or babies killed through the brutal practice of partial-birth abortion. But many of these same liberals, including leftist ‘human rights’ groups, which believe killing an innocent unborn child is a human right, are deeply concerned over the plight of terrorist suspects caught on battlefields fighting for the Taliban or al-Qaeda who are now detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Despite charges of poor treatment, the Pentagon actually spends $2.5 million each year to make sure the detainees are provided with Korans, prayer rugs, special meals... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2133276/posts#comment Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:41:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2131410/posts It is time for Barack Obama to pay the piper. For years, he and his fellow Democrats delighted in demagoguing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the military is still holding approximately 250 alleged enemy combatants men (down from over 800). Now, after all their bombast about the urgent need to close the facility — the better, they harangued, to improve our standing in the “international community” (compared to whose prisons Gitmo is actually a model of humaneness) — the president-elect must face a harsh reality. For the American community, Gitmo was never the problem, and closing it... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2131410/posts#comment Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:09:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2053238/posts Following Boumediene’s Rules by: Ben Giles, July 29, 2008 Attorney General Michael Mukasey suggests that national security must remain a prominent concern as legislation is created to adhere to the Supreme Court’s recent decision in the case of Boumediene vs. Bush. “It is worth stressing that the Boumediene decision is about the process afforded to those we detain in our conflict with al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and associated groups,” said Mukasey, “not about whether we can detain them at all.” In an address given July 21 at the American Enterprise Institute, Mukasey discussed the need to back the Court’s ruling, which... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2053238/posts#comment Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:45:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2051312/posts Gitmo Merry-Go-Round by: Emily Miller, July 25, 2008 The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission) held a congressional hearing last week to revisit Guantanamo policies in the wake of Boumediene v. Bush, a recent Supreme Court decision that extends habeas corpus rights to detainees in Guantanamo Bay. Co-Chairman Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD) says that in light of Boumediene the U.S. should “reopen entirely the question of how we handle terrorism suspects.” Calling Guantanamo a “lightning rod for international human rights criticism of the United States,” he encourages the U.S. to look abroad to see how... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2051312/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:14:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2046438/posts This is brutalization by American interrogators? Please. The Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2046438/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:09:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039536/posts Federal District judges in Washington, D.C., who will handle scores of pending and likely future challenges by Guantanamo Bay detainees to their confinement, decided on Monday to shift them temporarily to one judge to work on ways to coordinate the courts’ response. Attorneys for detainees began receiving notices Tuesday that the judges, in a closed-door session earlier in the day, had agreed that District Judge Thomas F. Hogan would handle “coordination and management” issues. The underlying cases will remain with the individual judges for future action on the merits. The judges acted after holding two meetings with lawyers for the... Scotusblog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039536/posts#comment Wed, 2 Jul 2008 02:22:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031676/posts The Supreme Court ruled last Thursday that the writ of habeas corpus should apply to non-American terrorist detainees held at Guantanamo Bay. The Taliban delivered its own commentary on the ruling the very next day, when it busted into a prison in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar and freed 1,150 prisoners, of whom 400 are Taliban members and the other 750 easy potential conscripts. Call it habeas corpus, Taliban-style. The connection between these events is not merely their timing. The point of keeping enemy combatants at a remote location like Guantanamo is that it offers some assurance that they... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031676/posts#comment Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:19:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016130/posts May 14, 2008, 0:00 a.m. The Yuccafication of AmericaPolitical elites commit themselves to noble goals, and then nuke the best means available to achieve those goals. By Jonah Goldberg What do Yucca Mountain and Guantanamo Bay have in common? Well, there’s the obvious stuff. Both have Spanish names. Neither is a great spot for a family vacation. Each is controlled by the federal government. Oh, and both are essential tools in wars a lot of people claim they want to win. See, Yucca Mountain is where the government wants to keep incredibly dangerous substances — nuclear waste — until... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016130/posts#comment Thu, 15 May 2008 01:50:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011398/posts Oh the outrage! The gift shop at Guantamo Bay sells a T-shirt that features a guard tower and barbed wire with wording that says: "The Taliban Towers at Guantanamo Bay, the Caribbean's Newest 5-star Resort." Another T-shirt from the same gift shop dares to praise, "the proud protectors of freedom". And yet another T-shirt shows an iguana with this "heartless" wording: "Greetings from paradise GTMO resort and spa fun in the Cuban sun." Does this even sound remotely like some cruel human rights abuse? Perhaps not to rational people but Daily Mail (UK) reporter, Angela Levin, works herself into a... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011398/posts#comment Mon, 5 May 2008 12:45:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000865/posts GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- Defendants at Guantanamo Bay are turning their backs on U.S. war crimes trials, creating complications in the long-stalled effort to prosecute suspected terrorists. Three alleged al-Qaida operatives have now chosen to boycott their upcoming trials and more are expected to do the same as the military attempts to prosecute dozens of Guantanamo prisoners at this isolated, high-security U.S. base overlooking the Caribbean. Two men, a Saudi and a Yemeni, at pretrial hearings this week denounced the tribunals as a sham and said they would not cooperate with their defense or appear for future hearings.... newsmax.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000865/posts#comment Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:19:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994599/posts WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Pentagon announced Monday war crimes charges carrying the death penalty against a Tanzanian inmate held in Guantanamo Bay arising from Al-Qaeda attacks on US embassies in East Africa a decade ago. The Defense Department said Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani would face a special military tribunal on nine counts including murder related to the August 1998 bombing of the embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, which killed 11 people and injured hundreds. Military prosecutors said that after the twin bombings in Tanzania and Kenya, which altogether killed more than 200, Ghailani worked as a bodyguard for Al-Qaeda leader... AFP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994599/posts#comment Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:35:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1988311/posts What it's really like behind the wire. The mood is grim as we descend on Guantanamo Bay and the unnerving shudder of our turboprop plane as it tilts toward the runway isn't even the chief concern. I'm traveling with a contingent of lawyers for the detainees, and the three-hour flight from Florida has felt like an extended trial at the detention facility, complete with a unanimous guilty verdict. Summarizing the hostile consensus, a blond-haired lawyer from San Diego mutters something about a "black hole." He's not entirely wrong. In the deep blackness of the Caribbean night, Guantanamo, outlined by a... The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1988311/posts#comment Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:21:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977495/posts Hoover senior fellow Peter Berkowitz, chairman of Hoover's Koret-Taube Task Force on National Security, explains that the war against terror does indeed pose formidable challenges for the American legal system, in part because the United States is facing a threat "unlike any other in its history." Berkowitz states that, unlike previous enemies of the United States, this new enemy is "not part of a nation-state, does not fight in uniformed troops against other armies in uniformed troops, and does not limit itself to conventional armed conflict but instead targets civilians or operates in civilian areas, and its threat could continue... Hoover Institution http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977495/posts#comment Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:18:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1972053/posts "Has there ever been a more repugnant example of political pandering than John McCain’s decision to vote against a bill banning waterboarding, putting hoods on prisoners, forcing them to perform sex acts, subjecting them to mock executions, or depriving them of food, water, and medical treatment? That’s right, John McCain, the former POW who has long been an outspoken critic of the Bush administration’s disturbing embrace of extreme interrogation techniques. But that was before his desperate attempt to win over the lunatic fringe that is running the Grand Old Party. Earlier this week, I showed how outdated the image of... Rosie.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1972053/posts#comment Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:48:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1970467/posts CUBA has demanded the US return Guantanamo Bay to the island nation and denounced the "war on terror" prison, where six detainees could face the death penalty. Cuba's Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque claimed today that suspects held in the US naval base in the southeastern tip of Cuba have been subjected to torture and face unfair legal treatment. Cuba rejects "the violation of human rights, unjust incarceration of prisoners held there without charges, and their appearance in courts without guarantees and in which they are convicted in advance,'' he told reporters. He did not directly refer to the case... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1970467/posts#comment Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:09:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960590/posts Congressional Democrats, trying to have the first word on President Bush's State of the Union speech, challenged him Friday to renounce use of waterboarding in interrogations, close Guantanamo Bay to detainees and outline new policies toward Pakistan and Iran. Domestically, Democrats said they expect Bush to invest more in the development of renewable energy and to support any compromise Republicans and Democrats strike to renew a law governing the president's secretive surveillance program. At the National Press Club, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid launched into a tightly coordinated pair of speeches in which Pelosi... My Way News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960590/posts#comment Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:08:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941551/posts WATERLOO, IOWA -- For the first time since he started his presidential campaign, Fred Thompson took a position directly opposite that of his friend John McCain. “When I hear one of the fellows running say that we should shut down Guantanamo and bring those prisoners over here ... I wonder if he understands how the world really operates,” Thompson said. “Well, I don’t wonder, either, I think I have a pretty good idea.” The Thompson campaign later clarified that the senator was referring to Mike Huckabee, the only other Republican running that has talked about shutting down the Guantanamo Bay... CBS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941551/posts#comment Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:28:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940466/posts In the post-9/11 Republican Party, there is one line that us conservatives don't cross. We do not critique Bush's handling of foreign policy and national security issues from a leftist perspective. Those who do, like Lincoln Chafee, Chuck Hagel, and Walter Jones, get "primaried". After improvements in Iraq finally begin to take place and victory appears to be attainable, Mike Huckabee, in his latest Foreign Affairs piece, attacked President Bush's handling of the War on Terror from the left. Even Ron Paul has not crossed that line. At least when Ron Paul says everything about blowback, and leaving Iraq, it... Red State http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940466/posts#comment Mon, 17 Dec 2007 02:12:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/1935504/posts Compare this to [1] Huckabee’s view on waterboarding. From the [2] Charlie Rose interview: Thompson: I’m telling you, as President, if the lives of a bunch of American citizens were at stake and I thought that there was a good chance that an individual had information and could impart information that would help save those lives, I’m just saying, that I would do whatever is necessary to get that information from that person. I would authorize that. Whatever is necessary to save a number of American lives. Thanks to Cuffy who says this locks up the [3] Jack Bauer Caucus.... Stop The ACLU http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/1935504/posts#comment Thu, 6 Dec 2007 09:07:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1935073/posts Weeks ago Mike Huckabee courageously bucked the “international community” by opposing the U.N.’s Law of the Sea Treaty and calling for the impeachment of federal judges who use foreign law in making decisions. Now he’s in favor of closing the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay because “the rest of the world” is demanding it. What’s more, the Washington Post reports that, after meeting with a delegation from a liberal “human rights” group, Huckabee has decided to join the erratic Senator John McCain in opposing the use of the effective technique known as waterboarding in getting life-saving information out of... SmallGovTimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1935073/posts#comment Wed, 5 Dec 2007 16:52:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1654517/posts June 23 (UPI) -- A Los Angeles civil rights lawyer who has represented a detainee at Guantanamo Bay and plaintiffs in police-abuse cases was indicted by federal prosecutors on charges of tax evasion and bankruptcy fraud. Stephen Yagman and his firm, Yagman & Yagman, failed to pay federal and state taxes and lied in a 1999 bankruptcy declaration to hide assets from the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles said in the 19-count indictment. With the money on which he didn't pay taxes, Yagman and his girlfriend financed a lifestyle ``that included high-priced vacations, gourmet restaurants,... upi via email no link http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1654517/posts#comment Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:19:15 GMT