Guantanamo Bay Facility Will Be Closed

January 22-2009: Guantanamo Will Be Closed! Today the president (Barack H. Obama) reiterated that Guantanamo Bay facility will be closed within one to two years. But in the interim, a special committee was selected to make the following recommendations about who and what action/s take, to facilitate habeas corpus for those prisoners therein. * The volume of prisoners to be allowed due process currently. This includes the length of time served therein already. * Who would be considered a threat... read more

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By the CNN Wire Staff March 7, 2011 5:49 p.m. EST Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama announced Monday that the United States will resume using military commissions to prosecute alleged terrorists held at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility. In the announcement, the president said his administration remains committed to closing the controversial detention facility but will rescind its previous suspension on bringing new charges before military commissions. The commissions...

Freed Gitmo prisoner considers suing U.S. From CNN's Reza Sayah ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Muhammad Saad Iqbal is a free man after serving more than six years at the U.S. military's detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- without any charge. Now, Iqbal is considering suing the U.S. government for unlawful detention. "I am angry in my heart," Iqbal said in a recent interview. "It's easy for the U.S. government to say, 'There are no charges found and he's free.' "But who will be responsible...

At least for now, detainees at the U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay will not be getting any H1N1 vaccine, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Tuesday. "There is no vaccine in Guantanamo and there is no vaccine on the way to Guantanamo," :Gibbs said in the daily White House news briefing when asked about reports that the Pentagon would offer detainees the vaccine for the virus, also known as swine flu. A spokeswoman for Joint Task Force Guantanamo, which is responsible for the detainees, said...

By MATT APUZZO and LARA JAKES JORDAN Associated Press Writers < Under the plan being crafted inside Obama's camp, some detainees would be released and others would be charged in U.S. courts, where they would receive constitutional rights and open trials. But, underscoring the difficult decisions Obama must make to fulfill his pledge of shutting down Guantanamo, the plan could require the creation of a new legal system to handle the classified information inherent in some of the most sensitive...