africa.reuters.com - 12/18/2008
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(Adds detail, quotes, byline) By Jane Sutton MIAMI, Dec 16 (Reuters) - The United States sent three Algerian-born prisoners to their adopted homeland of Bosnia on Tuesday in the first release under court order from the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The three were among five ...
africa.reuters.com - 12/17/2008
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By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS, Dec 16 (Reuters)
- Many U.N. officials and diplomats see the Bush
administration as an enemy of the United Nations, but U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Tuesday cooperation with the U.N. has ...
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Justice delayed is justice denied
the talking dog —
... Our post title, widely attributable to William Gladstone (though some say to William Penn) takes on a special resonance today, as in the Guantanamo litigation, which, after some men have been in what has been determined to be unlawful American detention for nearly seven years , the very, very first GTMO detainees released pursuant to court order (a pathetic total of ...
Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied
The Moderate Voice —
... Our post title, widely attributable to William Gladstone (though some say to William Penn) takes on a special resonance today. After some men have been in what has been determined to be unlawful American detention for nearly seven years, the very, very first Guantanamo Bay detainees were released pursuant to court order (a pathetic total of three men) and reached their home country of Bosnia. To be honest, I write this post more in sorrow than in anger. ...
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