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Justice Department Pointlessly Gags Guantanamo Attorney

One of the saddest stories in Guantánamo is that of Abdul Hamid al-Ghizzawi, a Libyan married to an Afghan woman and with a newly-born baby daughter, who was running a small bakery in Jalalabad, Afghanistan at the time of the US-led invasion of ...

From ANDY WORTHINGTON, The Public Record,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Department of Justice,  Taliban,  George W. Bush,  Supreme Court of the United States,  Google Inc.

Rep. Nadler and Attorney David Frakt on Obama’s Three-Tier Justice System For Gitmo

In the wake of Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement that five Guantánamo prisoners — including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — will face federal court trials in New York, and five others will face trials by Military Commission, much of the media has ...

From ANDY WORTHINGTON, The Public Record,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. House of Representatives,  U.S. Congress,  Al-Qaeda,  George W. Bush

Andy Worthington: Who Are The Six Uighurs Released From Guantanamo To Palau?

We were very pleased at the beginning when the Pakistanis turned us over to American custody. We sincerely hoped that America would be sympathetic to us and help us. Unfortunately, the facts were different. Although in 2004 and 2005 we were told that ...

From ANDY WORTHINGTON, Huffington Post,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Taliban,  Al-Qaeda,  George W. Bush,  Lewis Carroll,  Barack Obama

Ali al-Marri, The Last US ‘Enemy Combatant,’ Receives Eight-Year Sentence

So it’s finally over. Ali al-Marri, a legal US resident from Qatar, who was held as an “enemy combatant” on the US mainland for five years and eight months without charge or trial, was finally sentenced in a federal court last Thursday. The prosecution ...

From ANDY WORTHINGTON, The Public Record,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: George W. Bush,  Al-Qaeda,  Jose Padilla,  New York Times Company,  Barack Obama

Will Guantanamo Prisoners Be Released to Government of Georgia?

Although officials have been cagey about the rumors — Corso reported that National Security Council Secretary Eka Tkeshelashvili stated only that negotiations were “ongoing,” and refused to elaborate — she wanted to know what I thought about the rumors. ...

From ANDY WORTHINGTON, The Public Record,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: US State Department,  George W. Bush,  Barack Obama,  National Security Council,  Columbia University

Senate Finally Allows Guantanamo Trials In US, But Not Homes For Innocent Men

After railing against Senators and Congressmen for their cowardly, uninformed and unacceptable attempts to prevent President Obama from bringing any Guantánamo prisoner to the US mainland for any reason — even for trials — which I wrote about most ...

From ANDY WORTHINGTON, The Public Record,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Barack Obama,  Dick Cheney,  U.S. Senate,  U.S. House of Representatives

Musicians (Finally) Say No To Music Torture

Rage Against the Machine protesting Guantanamo Bay at the Reading festival. Photo: Chiaki Nozu/Filmmagic.com/Getty Images Well, that took a while. Nearly a year after George W. Bush’s Republican party was voted out of office, and at least five years ...

From ANDY WORTHINGTON, The Public Record,  25 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Tom Morello,  Dick Cheney,  Rosanne Cash,  Trent Reznor,  George W. Bush

Andy Worthington: Justice At Last? Guantanamo Uighurs Ask Supreme Court For Release Into U.S.

Whether a federal court exercising its habeas jurisdiction, as confirmed by Boumediene v. Bush, has no power to order the release of prisoners held by the Executive for seven years, where the Executive detention is indefinite and without ...

From ANDY WORTHINGTON, Huffington Post,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: George W. Bush,  Barack Obama,  Al-Qaeda,  Taliban,  US State Department

Finding New Homes For 44 Cleared Guantanamo Prisoners

In a recent article, I examined the implications of an announcement that 75 of the remaining 223 prisoners in Guantánamo have been cleared for release. This came by way of a list posted in the prison, identifying the prisoners by nationality, and a ...

From ANDY WORTHINGTON, The Public Record,  13 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  George W. Bush,  New York Times Company,  U.S. Department of Justice

Lawyer Blasts ‘Congressional Depravity’ On Guantánamo

In a recent article, “On Guantánamo, Lawmakers Reveal They Are Still Dick Cheney’s Pawns,” I spelled out my despair and disgust at lawmakers from both parties (their names can be found here, here and here), who, since May, have voted for legislation ...

From ANDY WORTHINGTON, The Public Record,  10 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  U.S. House of Representatives,  Dick Cheney,  Eric Holder,  Barack Obama

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