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...detainee policy resigned, leaving the Obama administration without a pivotal player as it seeks to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Phillip Carter, an Iraq war veteran who ran the Obama campaign's veteran-outreach...

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Navigation - link to other main sections from here A novel about Guantanamo Bay has been nominated for the Costa children's book prize. Judges called Guantanamo Boy by Anna Perera, the wife of the Dire Straits founding member David...

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A key official in the Obama administration's effort to remake detention policy and close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay has resigned. Phillip Carter, who was appointed deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee policy in...

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ALGIERS (Reuters) - Two men who had been held for seven years in the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay on suspicion of belonging to an extremist group were acquitted in an Algerian court on Sunday, state media reported. The two men...

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...them?' That, I think, is the key obstacle," he said. The administration says about 90 of the 215 men now held at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay on Cuba can be released or repatriated, but it has made little progress since Obama...

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...denied military lawyers in N.Y. NEW YORK (Reuters) - The first detainee transferred to New York from a U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to face criminal charges in a civilian court will not be represented by military lawyers,...

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...to close "next year" WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he believes the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, can be closed next year, but he acknowledged that he will not meet his original January...

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