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A supporter of President Barack Obama uses a digital camera to snap a picture during a fundraiser at Southern Maine Community College, Friday, March, 30, 2012 in Portland, Maine.
Guantanamo   Photos   USA   Wikipedia: Guantanamo Bay detention camp   Yemen  
 The New York Times 
Obama Lifts Ban on Guantanamo Transfers to Yemen
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is lifting his self-imposed ban on transferring Guantanamo Bay detainees to Yemen, where a leadership upheaval has improved the country's security but not elimina... (photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
 AR RAMADI Iraq  During a mission in the citys marketplace, Lance Cpl. James E. Hilliard,(left) a rifleman with 3rd Squad, 1st Platoon, Company A, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, and Cpl. David L. Salgado, a rifleman and 3rd Squads squad leader, le
CIA   Photos   UK   US   Wikipedia: Extraordinary rendition  
 The Guardian 
UK provided more support for CIA rendition flights than thought – study
The Rendition Project suggests aircraft associated with secret detention operations landed at British airports 1,622 times | • The Rendition Project interactive | • CIA rendition flights explained... (photo: USMC file/Cpl. Tom Sloan)
A Sailor assigned to the Navy Expeditionary Guard Battalion stands watch over a cell block in Camp 6 at Joint Task Force (JTF) Guantanamo.  The Guardian 
Pentagon wants $450M for Guantanamo prison
DONNA CASSATA | Associated Press= WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is asking Congress for more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wan... (photo: US Navy / U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Joshua Nistas/Released)
Congress   Guantanamo   Pentagon   Photos   Wikipedia: Guantanamo Bay detention camp  
File - Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Miguel Mejiacontrera takes a blood pressure reading from a detainee at the Camp 6 Medical Center.  Al Jazeera 
Physician dismisses force-feeding concerns
A military physician who oversees a team of nurses force-feeding hunger-striking prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility has dismissed ethical concerns raised by human rights groups and med... (photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Elisha Dawkins)
Guantanamo   Health   Human Rights   Photos   Wikipedia: Guantanamo Bay detention camp  
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U.S. Army Spc. Joseph Gonzalez, security force team member for Provincial Reconstruction Team Farah, maintains security during a meeting with the Farah provincial chief justice in Farah City, May 4, 2013. Khaleej Times
End the forever war
Theres no point in engaging in a perpetual global war on terror | From both the left and the right, three common misper-ceptions have emerged about US foreign policy: Fi... (photo: US Navy / HMC Josh Ives)
Photos   Terrorism   US   War   Wikipedia: War on Terror  
Civilians inspect the aftermath of a car bomb attack while Baghdad municipality workers clean up in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 16, 2013. Al Jazeera
Iraq death toll stirs fears of civil war
The death toll in Iraq from four consecutive days of violence has reached at least 140 people, stirring fears that rising sectarian conflicts could lead the country ... (photo: AP / Khalid Mohammed)
Iraq   Photos   Terrorism   War   Wikipedia: Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal)  
File - A detainee looks through a stack of magazines at Joint Task Force (JTF) Guantanamo. San Francisco Chronicle
Gitmo prisoner: Obama has 'abandoned' detainees
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Guantanamo Bay detainee says he feels abandoned by President Barack Obama and the world after more than 10 years at the U.S. prison. | "I believe th... (photo: US Navy / MCS3 Joshua Nistas)
Guantanamo   Human Rights   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Guantanamo Bay detention camp  
File - The MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle. Asia Times
Drone strikes on trial in Pakistan
By George Gao | UNITED NATIONS - Adding fuel to a long-simmering dispute between the US and Pakistan, a Peshawar High Court declared Central Intelligence Agency drone str... (photo: USAF)
Pakistan   Photos   Terrorism   US   Wikipedia: Drone attacks in Pakistan  
Military Abuse War on Terrorism
- Sexual assault victims in military would gain rights under b
- Fort Hood GI jailed in rape, kidnapping case
- Military rapes: Enough is enough
- Hood sergeant jailed in rape, kidnapping
This citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a Syrian man carrying a child's body in the aftermath of a strike by Syrian government, in the neighborhood of Jabal Bedro, in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday Feb. 19, 2013. The Britain-based activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Aleppo Media Center reported several dead in the attack late Monday night, saying the strike appeared to be from a ground-to-ground missile.
Amnesty report condemns 'inaction' over rights abuses
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- Right-wing terror expert Funke: 'No appropriate response
- Barack Obama seeks end to perpetual US 'war on terror
- Right-wing terror expert Funke: 'No appropriate response
- Radical Muslim cleric who is banned from Britain applauds te
A member of the Blues and Royals of the Household Cavalry mounted division stands guard in his ceremonial uniform outside Horse Guards Parade in central London, Thursday, May 23, 2013.
Two more arrested over UK soldier's killing
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Detainees Refugees
- Obama lifts ban on transferring Guantanamo Bay detainees to
- Repatriating detainees to Yemen key to closing Guantanamo
- Repatriating detainees to Yemen key to closing Guantanamo
- Obama Lifts Moratorium on Transfer of Detainees
File - A detainee looks through a stack of magazines at Joint Task Force (JTF) Guantanamo.
Gitmo prisoner: Obama has 'abandoned' detainees
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- Tamil asylum seekers granted lawyers after court plea
- Tamil asylum seekers granted lawyers after court plea
- Stockholm riots throw spotlight on Swedish inequality
- Help the real refugees
U.S. academic and polemicist Noam Chomsky, left, speaks at Jordan's University in Amman, Tuesday, May 18, 2010, during an online lecture with Bir Zeit University in the West Bank.
Video: Jeremy Scahill & Noam Chomsky on Secret U.S. Dirty Wars From Laos to Yemen to Pakistan
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Immigration Human Rights
- Prosecutors appeal drug acquittal
- Tamil asylum seekers granted lawyers after court plea
- Tamil asylum seekers granted lawyers after court plea
- Arizona restaurateur abandoned by Gordon Ramsay in car crash
File - Children at play at the Yida settlement in Unity state, in northern South Sudan, 12 March, 2013. Opened in 2011, Yida has over 70,000 refugees.
Amnesty: Growing Danger for Refugees
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- Guantanamo prisoners allege widespread abuse
- Guantanamo warden may be unfit for command
- Amnesty: Growing Danger for Refugees
- UK provided more support for CIA rendition flights than thou
File - Children at play at the Yida settlement in Unity state, in northern South Sudan, 12 March, 2013. Opened in 2011, Yida has over 70,000 refugees.
Amnesty: Growing Danger for Refugees
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Guantanamo Asylum Seekers
- Satellite collides with Soviet-era rocket
- Obama defends use of drones as a “just war” against terr
- Barack Obama seeks end to perpetual US 'war on terror
- Obama defends drone use, renews push to shut Gitmo
President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, speaks about the health care reform bill, Tuesday, March 23, 2010, at the Interior Department in Washington
Obama's drone policy at a glance
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- 'Osama doc' Afridi was denied asylum in US, reveal
- Tamil asylum seekers granted lawyers after court plea
- Tamil asylum seekers granted lawyers after court plea
- Probe into Queensland asylum seeker escape
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