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politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 1/22/2009
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A detainee is seen through a fence in July at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
WASHINGTON (CNN) – A new national poll suggests Americans are split over whether the U.S. should close the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay. But the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday indicated that support for closing the detention [...]
google.com - 1/24/2009
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3 hours ago WASHINGTON (AFP) Two men released
from the US "war on terror" prison at Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba have appeared in a video posted on a jihadist website, the SITE monitoring service reported. One of the two former inmates, a Saudi man ...
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AFP: Two ex-Guantanamo inmates appear in Al-Qaeda video
news.yahoo.com - 1/21/2009
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GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) Hours
after taking office on Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama
ordered military prosecutors in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals to ask for a 120-day halt in all pending cases. Military judges were ...
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Obama seeks halt to Guantanamo trials - Yahoo! News
cnn.com - 1/23/2009
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A guard keeps watch from a tower at
the military facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Obama signs order to close Guantanamo Bay facility
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Running On Torture
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... don't have a ton of issues in which public opinion is on their side; they should press the argument that American policy on detainees in the War on Terror ought to consider the objections of Americans in places like Kansas, California, and South Carolina as much as it considers the objections of the editorial boards of Le Monde, Der Spiegel and the Guardian. How about an open debate then, eh? And just how certain are you the public is on your side? Hmmm? ...
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