More problems for V-22 Osprey.
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More problems for V-22 Osprey.
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The Supreme Court will not hear Kiyemba, et al. v. Obama, et al. until next term, October at the earliest.
Because the Court took no formal action on Kiyemba Monday, there was no explanation. It is possible to speculate on the reasons.
Among them could be that the Court did not want to be seen to be [...]
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From Aviation Week,
The U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 squadron preparing to deploy to Afghanistan in the third or fourth quarter of this year is now flight testing a turreted gun to beef-up the aircraft’s fire-power.
The Bell/Boeing MV-22 unit is likely to be deployed to Camp Bastion in the Helmand region as part of the U.S.’s [...]
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From Reuters,
Four Chinese detainees from Guantanamo Bay arrived in Bermuda on Thursday after being freed by U.S. authorities in the Obama administration’s latest move to close the controversial prison camp for terror suspects.
Their release took place the same day China repeated its demand for repatriation of all 17 members of the Uighur ethnic group held [...]
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The case of Jamal Kiyemba v. Obama, was decided on 7 April 2009 by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The court held that no court had the power to order the Uighurs to be released to live in the United States.
The case will be heard by [...]
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One of the consequences of the increased legal rights granted to detainees at Guantanamo Bay may be an increase in targeted killings in Afghanistan using Predator drones.
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In a recent poll Americans say Guantanamo Bay should not be closed by a 2-1 margin.
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The latest on the military commissions being held in Guantanamo Bay,
Judge Patrick Parrish, a US Army colonel, decided to publicly hear arguments in the case of Omar Khadr, who was 15 years old when he allegedly killed a US sergeant with a grenade.
The case highlights the many challenges President Barack Obama faces in changing the [...]
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President Obama gives speech outlining the way forward on Guantanamo Bay and military commissions.
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Detainees from Guantanamo Bay will not be moved to Supermax federal prison in Colorado.
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Lakhdar Boumediene, of Boumediene v. Bush, has been rendered to France,
Lakhdar Boumediene, is on his way to France today, where he’ll face terrorism charges. Boumediene stood accused of planning to attack the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo; a U.S. judge ordered him released last year due to a lack of evidence. In Boumediene, the Court invalidated [...]
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From the Eastern District of Virginia,
Elbert Westley George III, 36, a U.S. Army captain who was stationed in Iraq, pleaded guilty today to participating in a scheme to steal U.S. government equipment and sell it to a local Iraqi businessman, announced Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer and Acting U.S. Attorney [...]
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According to CIA Director Leon Panetta drones are,
the only game in town in terms of confronting or trying to disrupt the al Qaeda leadership,” Panetta told the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles.
Pakistan has complained repeatedly about what it says are airstrikes on its territory by U.S.-operated drones. The U.S. military in neighboring [...]
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From WSJ,
The Obama administration is weighing plans to detain some terror suspects on U.S. soil — indefinitely and without trial — as part of a plan to retool military commission trials that were conducted for prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The proposal being floated with members of Congress is another indication of President Barack Obama’s [...]
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President Obama will announce the continued use of military commissions for detainees held at Guantanamo Bay. But the Senate will not approve any funding that would transfer any of the detainees from Guantanamo Bay to the United States.
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President Obama to announce that he will continue to use military commissions to try detainees held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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From the NYT,
WASHINGTON — An internal Justice Department inquiry into the conduct of Bush administration lawyers who wrote secret memorandums authorizing brutal interrogations has concluded that the authors committed serious lapses of judgment but should not be criminally prosecuted, according to government officials briefed on a draft of the findings.
Dreadnaught prediction: no prosecutions.
yojoe out
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Lawyers for the Obama administration are becoming more receptive to the use of military commissions for the prosecution of detainees held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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In a recently-released memo it was revealed that the United States used waterboarding on Abu Zubaydah 83 times and Kahalid Shaikh Mohammed 183 times. Now former CIA Director General Michael Hayden, USAF, explains why,
Most of the people who oppose these techniques want to be able to say, “‘I don’t want my nation doing this, which [...]
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CIA torture memo reveals that Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times.
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Congress Limits The President’s Ability To Close Guantanamo Bay
First, the title of this post is a bit misleading. President Obama never made a promise to close Guantanamo Bay (GTMO). He only ordered that the detention facility, holding those captured in the GWOT be closed by January 2010. That being said, the recent bill signed into law by the president, H.R. 2346: Supplemental Appropriations [...]
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