While the news from unnamed sources in the Obama transition team about the closing of Guantánamo is certainly welcome, what we need are specifics about the timeline for the shuttering of the military commissions and the release or charging of detainees who have been indefinitely held for years. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Objectively speaking, Guantánamo is always sunny, the water is blue-green, the weather is perfect. ❋ Unknown (2010)
For "al Qaeda or other enemies of the United States" Guantánamo is a PR gold mine. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Viewed in that light, Guantánamo is an easy case given more than a century of exclusive U.S. jurisdiction and control. ❋ Unknown (2006)
An intricately layered, blistering tale of subterfuge and deception at the highest, most hidden levels of the government, and in the most intimate, and vulnerable, moments of individual lives, The Prisoner of Guantánamo is as timely and razor sharp in its depiction of lifeand deathat Gitmo as it is unstoppably suspenseful. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The obsession with Guantànamo is paralleled by the fact that more reports were produced about Israel in the last 16 months than any other country or organization. ❋ Helen (2006)
Guantánamo is absurd, since terrorists are not covered by those conventions. ❋ Unknown (2006)
On the seventh anniversary of the arrival of the first detainees it turns out the single most important factor in determining who still remains at Guantánamo is nationality — whether we’re talking about the approximately 60 men who cannot be returned home and need other countries to take them in or about which countries have had the clout to get their people out. ❋ Unknown (2009)
To Señor C, Coetzee’s alter ego, just about the only ray of sunshine amid such predictable horrors as Bush, Cheney, and Guantánamo is the continuing presence of Bach’s music. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The children among the Rejangs have generally a name given to them by their parents soon after their birth, which is called namo daging. ❋ William Marsden (1795)
Mr. al-Fayfi had been held in the Guant á namo Bay detention facility after being accused of training and fighting with al Qaeda at Tora Bora in Afghanistan against U.S. soldiers. ❋ Margaret Coker (2010)
The Yemen Plot The source of a tip that alerted security agencies around the world to the package-bomb plot late last week was Jabir al-Fayfi, a Saudi national and former Guant á namo Bay inmate, a Yemeni security official said. ❋ Unknown (2010)
SAN'A, Yemen — The source of a tip that alerted security agencies around the world to the package-bomb plot late last week was Jabir al-Fayfi, a Saudi national and former Guant á namo Bay inmate, a Yemeni security official said Monday. ❋ Margaret Coker (2010)
At Guant á namo, he denied being a member of al Qaeda or of ever shooting a weapon in Afghanistan. ❋ Margaret Coker (2010)
The Yemeni branch of the group has other Guant á namo detainees as members, as well as other Saudis and Yemenis who were educated in Saudi Arabia. ❋ Margaret Coker (2010)
We're told about the 'many humiliations' of prisoners at Guant á namo Bay, we're warned repeatedly about global warming, and we're informed that ObamaCare 'achieves the unthinkable ... finally.' ❋ Unknown (2010)
Over the years, its judges have handled numerous high-profile global cases, including some against the governments of China and Israel and allegations of U.S. torture at Guant á namo Bay. ❋ David Roman (2011)
Instead of detention facilities like Guant á namo, Saudis employ religious scholars to persuade militants to forsake violence and offer generous social and job benefits to entice the men to settle into routine lives. ❋ Margaret Coker (2010)
