US military improving detention conditions at Guantanamo Bay
US Navy Rear Adm. Mark H. Buzby , commander of Joint Task Force - Guantanamo Bay, has said that the US military plans to improve conditions by providing low-risk detainees at Guantanamo Bay more educational...
White House mulling closure of Guantanamo detention facilities: AP
The White House is considering the closure of detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay and the transfer of the estimated 385 detainees currently held there to other military detention facilities, AP reported Thursday. Three senior Bush administration...
Guantanamo will close after Bush out of office: rights lawyer
Prominent human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith said Sunday he expects detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay to be closed after US President George Bush leaves office next year, adding that the recent dismissal of...
Powell urges immediate closure of Guantanamo detention facilities
Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday that he favors the immediate closure of all detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay , adding that he would also "get rid" of the framework created...
Spain prosecutors appeal indictment of US soldiers in Iraq death of journalist
Spanish National Court prosecutors Friday appealed investigating magistrate Santiago Pedraz's indictment of three US soldiers with homicide and "a crime against the international community" in the 2004 death in Iraq of cameraman Jose Couso [advocacy website, in English; JURIST...
Three US soldiers were indicted Friday for the 2003 death of a Spanish reporter who was killed when their tank fired a shell at a Baghdad hotel. A Spanish judge charged Sgt. Shawn Gibson, Capt. Philip Wolford and Lt....
Spain reissues arrest warrant for US soldiers involved in Baghdad hotel attack
Spain's National Court has reissued a warrant for the arrest of three US soldiers who killed Spanish Telecinco cameraman Jose Couso in 2003 when their tank opened fire on a hotel in Baghdad....
Federal appeals court upholds terrorist designation for militant Jewish group
The Jewish organization Kahane Chai was properly designated as a terrorist organization by the US Department of State in 1997 and former Secretary of State Colin Powell in 2003, a federal appeals court...
Senate committee approves military commissions bill over Bush objections
The US Senate Armed Services Committee voted 15-9 Thursday to send a bill authorizing military commissions drafted by Republican Senators John Warner, Lindsey Graham and John McCain to the full Senate for consideration...
Ben Davis : "The rejection today by the Senate Armed Services Committee of the President's draft bill on detainees and the voting out of a draft supported by Senators Warner, McCain and Graham and Democrats,...
