Obama steps towards a post-Gitmo AmericaWith the White House deciding to trial a suspected Somali terrorist in US federal court, Barack Obama has finally made a significant step towards realising his pre-election promise to close down Guantanamo Bay, writes Karen Greenberg.
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Cowboys, Indians and printing the legend of bin Laden’s death
We’re already printing the legend of the death of Osama bin Laden.
The bureaucracy of Gitmo
Benjamin Franklin’s famous trade-off between liberty and temporary safety – for those who deserve neither — stands itemized in human form in the Gitmo documents, in those many files full of misspellings, malapropisms and justifications, the dream-diary jottings of a superpower nightmare.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s meaty bites: Gitmo, the Grauniad … Shtupping … Trump-style Oz …
WikiLeaks … all-in-all, quite a set of leaks. A whole new source of secret information? Well, not quite.
Why David Hicks is a liar
The new autobiography by one of the first prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Australian David Hicks, is “self-serving, sanitised and disingenuous”, declares Sally Neighbour. Hicks failed to analyse or question his own actions and motives and underplays his role in Afghanistan .
Whatever their motivation, WikiLeaks undermine international humanitarian law
The vast bulk of material recently released by WikiLeaks would not be new in nature to those who keep up with the Afghanistan War or the difficulties and perennial moral quandaries of fighting wars generally, writes Neil James, executive director, Australia Defence Association
Why I was banned from Guantanamo
An interview with veteran Miami Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg, who was recently banned from reporting on the Omar Khadr trial at Guantanamo Bay after publishing the name of an anonymous witness. She defends her actions.
My tortured life as a Gitmo prisoner
Omar Deghayes, a British resident who spent six years imprisoned in Guanatanamo Bay, explains how he went from a peaceful family life in Pakistan to having his eyes gouged by Gitmo guards, resulting in permanent blindness.
Welcome to the new Gitmo. It’s rather like the old one
Guantanamo Bay prison is closing, but inmates are simply being transferred to a ‘supermax’ facility in Illinois, won’t receive a trial and some won’t be charged with a crime at all. Why close Gitmo just to open a new one? asks Glenn Greenwald.
The repugnant case of Omar Khadr
The US is still refusing to release or repatriate Canadian citizen and terror suspect Omar Khadr, who was arrested in 2002 in Afghanistan at the age of 15 and has been detained in Guantanamo Bay ever since, says Greg Barns.
What will Obama do with the leftover Gitmo prisoners?
Barack Obama is honouring his pledge to close down the notorious Guantanamo prison, but how and where will the detainees be trialled in a fair manner? NPR explores the options, examining what justice means for Gitmo prisoners.
Guantánamo guard: “Why I converted to Islam”
Six months into his work in the US military as a guard at the notorious Gitmo, Terry Holdbrooks converted to Islam with the help and mentoring of the prisoners. What made him do it?
Photos emerge from Gitmo of 9/11 ringleader
New photos have been released of Guantánamo Bay inmate Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, regarded as the mastermind of 9/11, looking far different to his famous dishevelled capture photos. Will they inspire further terrorist attacks?
US court for terror suspects: Gitmo 2.0?
Barack Obama may have promised to close Gitmo, but there are ‘a thousand little Gitmos’ across the US, where terror suspects are being given unfair trials, writes Petra Bartosiewicz.
How the Uighurs could learn to hate paradise
It’s a tropical wonderland, says Jonathan Kaminsky, but for the 17 Uighurs being sent there, life in Palau may be no better than it’s been for former Gitmo detainees in Albania and Tunisia.
Mission to Afghanistan: keeping the least worst warlord in power
Overwhelming military power coupled with a vague confidence in our benevolence doesn’t usually end up so well, writes Jeff Sparrow.
Guantanamo: be the evil you want to see defeated
Mahatma Gandhi once said: “Be the change you want to see”. But in George W Bush’s so-called “war on terror”, the extreme opposite applied, writes Irfan Yusuf.
The Humpty Dumpty gang should take their great fall over Guantanamo
Throughout the Bush years, politicians and the media, both in Australia and abroad, have been prepared to play brazen Alice in Wonderland games with definitions, writes Jeff Sparrow
