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Four Afghan Guantanamo inmates sent home
Four Afghan detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison have been sent back to their home country, the Pentagon says. Shawali Khan, Khi Ali Gul, Abdul. The repatriation is the latest in a series of transfers from the Guantanamo Bay, as President Obama.
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. Scotlands top prosecutor has reaffirmed his belief that Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is guilty of the deaths of 270 people in the Lockerbie bombing. [BBC]. #GUANTANAMO BAY After a decade in the military prison, four Afghan detainees are being sent home.
Hard National Security Choices
The Pakistani military announced today that it had killed 62 militants in renewed fighting near the border with Afghanistan following a Pakistani Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar that killed 148 people. Dawn also reports that at least four.
CIA report: Who were the detainees?
He claims to have personally beheaded the captured US journalist, Daniel Pearl. Born in Kuwait to Pakistani parents, he graduated at a US university, before travelling to Afghanistan to fight the Soviets. There he is believed to have first met Osama.
US Releases Six Guantanamo Detainees; Sends Them For Resettlement As.
Uruguays President Jose Mujica decided to accept the detainees on humanitarian grounds in March but the move was delayed until after Uruguays elections, according to a BBC report. The men, four Syrians, a Tunisian and a Palestinian, were flown to the .
Man Haron Monis
January 2010 - Monis faces charges of sending grossly offensive letters to families of Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan. September.. Just minutes passed before paramedics carrying four empty stretchers ran in to the Lindt cafe. When they.
The siege in the Lindt cafe in Martin Place has tested Australians as.
Police say four people were injured, including a police officer who suffered a non-life threatening gunshot pellet wound to the face. The other. There is 13 Australians held as hostages in a cafe and there R 100s of Muslims held as hostages in.
Lord West says UK spies may have seen CIA torture
Yesterday the Mail published details of how Home Secretary Theresa May was among the politicians and diplomats who held meetings with the Senate intelligence committee. But last night the. During an interview with BBC Radio 4 Today, he added: Would.
Guantanamo prisoners released as US defends raid
Guantanamo prisoners released as US defends raid. ���The United States will spare no effort to use all of its military, intelligence and diplomatic capabilities to bring Americans home safely, wherever they are located,��� he said. A senior US defense.
Ex-CIA chief: I would use waterboarding again if it meant saving lives of.
During an interview with BBC Radio 4 Today, he added: Would I waterboard again Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the 9/11 killings and beheader of over 40 people? Would I waterboard him if I could have a good chance of saving thousands of .
US Transfers 5 Guantanamo Detainees To Georgia, Slovakia
The United States has transferred five detainees being held at its prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Georgia and Slovakia. As The Wall Street Journal reports, four of the men are Yemeni, and that is important because they are the first Yemeni.
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The final chapter kicks off today, when House GOP leaders are expected to unveil their govt-funding bill, the ���cromnibus.��� The legislation will keep most of the govt open through Sept 2015 but extend Dept of Homeland Security funding only until Feb.
Kuwaiti Guantanamo Bay inmate sent home
One of the longest-held detainees at the US facility at Guantanamo Bay, a Kuwaiti man, has been sent home, officials say. Fawzi al-Odah. Mr Odah had argued that he travelled to Afghanistan and Pakistan to teach the Koran and provide humanitarian aid.
Kabul Bank fraud: Ghani reopens Afghan corruption case
Afghanistans new leader is resuming the investigation into a banking fraud said to be one of the worlds largest. Ashraf Ghani said reopening the Kabul. Many of the banks staff were sent to prison but the brothers of former President Hamid Karzai.
Child accidentally takes 250 heroin bags to US nursery
A four-year-old child took about 250 packets of heroin to her nursery and began passing them out, believing them to be chocolate, Delaware police say. Police say the child unknowingly brought the drugs to the centre when her mother gave her a different.
Bradfords Hanson Academy uniform row sees 33 pupils sent home
More than 30 pupils were barred from an academy in Bradford as a row over uniform policy continued. They were turned away as Hanson Academys head teacher Elizabeth Churtons crackdown entered a third day. On Tuesday, 152 pupils were sent home, .
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Life after Guant��namo: Stories from Afghanistan | Andy.
On February 24, I was delighted to be interviewed about Guant��namo by BBC World News ��� the BBCs global, commercial arm ��� as part of their ���Freedom��� series. As the website states, ���Whether its freedom from��.
Life after Guantanamo prison | The Essential Field Guides
The following piece on Afghans incarcerated ��� often with little or no evidence ��� by the Americans in Guantanamo by Dawood Azam was published on the BBC World website. See link.. There are believed to be around 155 prisoners in Guantanamo currently ���I usually say to people that Guantanamo is like the mother-in-laws home. That its a. After the joy of homecoming, though, the experience of picking up after four or five lost years has often been bitter. ���I went��.
US military prisoner released by the Afghan Taliban.
Summary: A US Army sergeant, captured by the Taliban in 2010, has been released in exchange for the release of five Guantanamo inmates. Initial debate focuses on how he. Amidst (mainly) relief that their son has come home, America is grappling with several questions arising in relation to the Bergdahl case: a) was he doing.. Sent: 4 days ago; BBC News - Ukraine crisis: Russia under pressure at G20 summit bbc.com/news/world-aus���Sent: 6 days ago; BBC��.
From Guant��namo, Shaker Aamer Tells BBC He Is ���Falling.
31.5.13. On Guant��namo, despite President Obamas fine words at a news conference a month ago, and in a major speech on national security last week, we wait and we wait and still nothing happens. Eight days after he promised to resume releasing. The easiest prisoner release would be to send Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guant��namo, home to his family in London ��� his British wife and his four British children. Shaker is one of the 86 cleared prisoners, and the��.
Fawzi Al-Odah Freed from Guant��namo, Returns Home to.
Congratulations to the Obama administration for arranging for Fawzi al-Odah, one of the last two Kuwaiti prisoners in Guant��namo, to be sent home, a free man, on the day after the US mid-term elections ��� although he will be held in Kuwaiti custody.. He added that, according to officials, the administration ���had been poised to repatriate four Afghans who have long been approved for transfer, but Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel recently pulled back from that plan.
Gitmo-UK? 80 to 90 Afghans held at British base without.
British troops in Afghanistan are holding 80 to 90 people, some for up to 14 months, without charges. In response to lawyer allegations the facility is a Guantanamo-style prison, the UK has said the prisoners will be returned to��.
Guant��namo Envoy: US Should Have Taken Cleared.
In an interview for Radio 4s Today program, which was partly filmed and televised on BBC News, Fried gave Jon Manel a largely spin-free account of the problems he faces, some of which have been exacerbated by the US.. pervasive, society-wide depravity��� where the likes of Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, the numerous ���black site��� prisons of the CIA, and Bagram prison in Afghanistan become the feeder-site training grounds of our own domestic county jails, state��.
Uruguays President Mujica Confirms Offer of New Home for.
Back in March, President Jos�� Mujica of Uruguay announced that he had been approached by the Obama administration regarding the resettlement of Guant��namo prisoners, cleared for release from the prison in 2009 by President. The first three were captured together crossing from Afghanistan to Pakistan in December 2001, along with another man, Maasoum Mouhammed, who was given a new home in Bulgaria in May 2010... Thanks for this good news, Andy.
BBC: Former Guantanamo Prisoners Nothing More Than.
Such is the case of a recent piece by the BBC, covering a love-fest reunion between the former Guantanamo guard who has seen the light, repenting for his evil ways, and two ex-inmates whose only goal in Afghanistan back in 2001 was to provide aid work, sight see, and. The Army attempted to recall Brandon from his Inactive Ready Reserve (IRR) status to active duty in May 2007, but this is his explanation of what happened next: I ignored all letters to my house.
Radio: On the BBC World Service, Andy Worthington.
14.2.14. This morning, I was interviewed on the BBC World Services ���World Update��� programme about Bagram prison in Afghanistan, and the latest news from the facility, in the long, drawn-out process of the US handing over control of the prison to the Afghan government... Also see the four-part definitive Guant��namo prisoner list, and ���The Complete Guant��namo Files,��� an ongoing, 70-part, million-word series drawing on files released by WikiLeaks in April 2011. Also see the��.
Shaker Aamer: Britains last Guant��namo Bay prisoner - The.
Aamers side of the story is that he and his family quickly realised their mistake in coming to Afghanistan and, as war swirled around them, decided to return to Britain via Pakistan. It is said that some. Whatever the truth of the matter, in 2007, after a lengthy inquiry, the US authorities admitted they did not have a case, and approved Aamers release back to his home country: Saudi Arabia. Rights there are less... Popular in world news; Popular across the guardian. 1��.
Afghan Detainees Sent Home to Face Closed-Door Trials.
The Washington Post: Afghan detainees held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are being transferred home to face closed-door trials in which they are often denied access to defense attorneys and the U.S. evidence. News from the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA).. BBC Persian, Nov.14, 2007: Members of Afghanistan parliament accuse some officials of Pul-e-Charkhi prison in Kabul for raping women prisoners.
The Stories of the Afghans Just Released from Guant��namo.
Few of their stories are known at all, and on their return to Afghanistan they were promptly imprisoned in a wing of Pol-i-Charki, Kabuls main prison, which was recently refurbished by the US authorities... off the record, blamed the US for the return of Taliban commanders to the battlefield, explaining that ���neither the American military officials, nor the Kabul police, who briefly process the detainees when they are sent home, consult them about the detainees they free.
Shaker Aamer - WikiSpooks
According to documents published in the Guantanamo Bay files leak, the U.S. military Joint Task Force Guantanamo believed in November 2007 that Aamer had led a unit of fighters in Afghanistan, including the Battle of Tora Bora. Supporters of Aamer contend that the UK should intervene in his detention because he moved to the United Kingdom in 1996, married a British woman, fathered four young children and was in the process of applying for British citizenship.
The Prisoners Speak: Reports from the Hunger Strike in.
On Friday, I received an alarming message from inside Guant��namo, from a reliable source who described the impact of the prison-wide hunger strike, now nearing the three-month mark, by stating that the the guards were ���putting people in isolation and all day long making lots of. The source added, ���There are at least four people that are at the very edge and one named Khiali Gul from Afghanistan is in a bad shape and cannot move and cannot talk or eat or drink.