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Pentagon: Gitmo Detainees to Receive H1N1 Vaccine, Despite White House Claim

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 22:53:11 +0000

Guantanamo Bay detainees will be receiving the H1N1 vaccine, the Pentagon confirmed Tuesday, even though White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said minutes earlier that the vaccine is not "on the way." Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said Gibbs was correct in saying the vaccine is not ...

Weekly Standard Blog found this 5 days ago on foxnews.com

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Conservatives attack on H1N1

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:00:08 +0000

The American Future Fund, an Iowa-based conservative interest group, will launch ads tomorrow that seek to link the Obama Administration's handling of the H1N1 flu with broader questions about the viability of a public option being included in a health care overhaul. The ad begins by noting that ...

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White House: No swine flu shots for Gitmo detainees

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 22:53:11 +0000

The White House is trying to nip in the bud a budding controversy over terrorism detainees at Guantanamo Bay getting swine flu vaccine sooner than many Americans. "There is no vaccine in Guantanamo, and there's no vaccine on the way...

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Guantánamo suspects want to stay say officials

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 00:15:13 +0000

Alex Spillius tours the once notorious detention centre where terrorist suspects now fear being sent to mainland US prisons.

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H1N1 Vaccinations To Be Offered To Guantanamo Bay Detainees

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:44:20 +0000

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Pentagon will offer the H1N1 vaccination to detainees at the U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay, officials there said Friday. The Pentagon made the decision based on U.S. government assessments that people held in detention facilities are at high risk for the pandemic, said ...

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President Signs Law Granting Defense Authority To Suppress Torture Photos

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:16:44 +0000

President Obama Thursday signed into law a Homeland Security appropriations bill that contains a provision to grant the Department of Defense (DOD) the authority to continue suppressing photos of prisoner abuse.

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Tell Congress: Close Gitmo Now

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:00:39 +0000

President Obama made one of his first acts as President the signing of an Executive Order to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. But the right wing wants to play the old game of politics and fear. It’s time for us to stand up and finish what President Obama has started. Congress needs ...

Think Progress found this 9 days ago on newsecurityaction.org

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Colbert signs petition to ‘Close Gitmo Now.’

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:45:00 +0000

Last week, a group of international musicians that includes Trent Reznor, R.E.M., Pearl Jam, Jackson Browne, and others joined the National Campaign to Close Guantanamo and filed Freedom of Information Act requests seeking to declassify all secret government records pertaining to how music was ...

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The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 759 Detainees in America's Ille (9780745326641): Andy Worthington: Books

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 19:59:56 +0000

'An important book. If you care about our Government's complicity in these illegal and horrific acts then this book provides the evidence.' Ken Loach"Extraordinary rendition, false imprisonment, inhumane treatment - including torture and death in secretive detention sites - has forever ...

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US Supreme Court refuses to hear Guantanamo case (AFP)

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 22:02:43 +0000

AFP - The US Supreme Court refused Monday to consider the case of a Yemeni detainee held at Guantanamo Bay despite a lower court order for his release.

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Obama Administration to Announce Detainee Prosecutions

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 17:15:40 +0000

Within the next two weeks the Obama administration will begin to make public the names of detainees in Guantanamo Bay whom federal prosecutors plan on trying in U.S. civilian courts and which ones they will send to a military commission....

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Congressmen Decry Obama Admin's Move to Give Scarce H1N1 Shots to Gitmo Terrorists

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:22:05 +0000

Steve Hayes wrote this morning that, as high-risk people such as pregnant-mothers and young children are unable to get Swine Flue vaccinations, the Obama administration has decided to give the scarce shots to the detainees housed at Gitmo. The AP reported last night that 114 children have died ...

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Pence to Pentagon: Rethink decision to offer H1N1 vaccine to Gitmo detainees

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:14:45 +0000

The Pentagon's announcement Friday that it would provide H1N1 vaccinations to Guantanamo Bay detainees who ask for it is a "terrible decision," one House Republican stressed Friday. The White House should immediately cancel the program to ensure Americans are able to receive those vaccinations ...

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Young Afghan struggles to adapt after Guantanamo

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:15:00 +0000

Afghan detainee Mohammed Jawad, left, sits with his cousin Bader at his family home in Kabul. Jawad is believed to have been the youngest detainee at Guantanamo Bay. ( Paula Bronstein / Getty Images )

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