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.
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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
Why Gillard and Brandis are wrong about Gitmo prisoners
Having supported the treatment of prisoners in clear defiance of Geneva Convention, Australia has a moral obligation to take some of these men, writes Greg Barns.
Rundle: Dubya’s last days
Dubya is almost jaunty these days, as the sand runs out of the hourglass on his disastrous reign, writes Guy Rundle.
Another Guantanamo prosecutor resigns in disgust
United States military prosecutor, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld resigned in late September from his post at the Military Commissions process at Guantanamo Bay. Lt. Col. Vandeveld is the fourth Military Commission prosecutor to resign, writes Stephen Kiem.
Karadzic v Guantanamo Bay detainees: two very different trials
Karadzic is being tried by a UN War Crimes Tribunal. There have been no suggestions of torture at this tribunal. Guantanamo Bay detainees aren’t so lucky, argues Irfan Yusuf.
Guantanamo Bay: still no justice after all these years
Yes, the Military Commission hears argument and makes rulings: just like a real court. Do these processes involve independent judges making fair rulings or are they just mirages in a system loaded against the defence? wonders Stephen Keim SC.
Abjorensen: Thought police alive and well in Howard’s Australia
Since when do one’s thoughts and beliefs constitute a punishable offence? asks Norman Abjorensen.
Howard and Cheney in ‘iron curtain’ Hicks deal?
Whether the David Hicks issue still has any traction could be tested with the allegation in Harper’s magazine that US Vice President Dick Cheney orchestrated Hicks’ early release — for John Howard. Jane Nethercote reports.
