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• Sen. Risch favors keeping Guantanamo detention facility open

  June 18, 2011 in Idaho on Page B2 BOISE – Idaho Sen. Jim Risch, who visited the Guantanamo Bay detention facility this week, says he believes it should stay open indefinitely and the detainees there should be held … 1

• Risch: Keep detainees at Guantanamo indefinitely

  June 17, 2011 in Idaho Idaho Sen. Jim Risch, who visited the Guantanamo Bay detention facility this week, says he believes it should stay open indefinitely, and the detainees there should be held indefinitely - … 5

• Guantanamo’s recidivism is high

  January 7, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – One in five terror suspects released from the Guantanamo Bay prison has returned to the fight, according to a classified Pentagon report expected to stoke an already fierce …

• Guantanamo detainees won’t be sent to Yemen

  January 6, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A10 WASHINGTON – The White House announced Tuesday that it is halting the transfer of detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay prison to Yemen, a move that could complicate President Barack …

• Keeping Guantanamo won’t make U.S. safer

  January 4, 2010 in Opinion on Page A9 The woman was sincere. And completely wrong. She was among the dozens of protesters outside a Tuesday hearing about President Barack Obama’s plan to move Guantanamo detainees to a prison … 2

• Detainees going to Illinois prison

  December 15, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has directed the federal government to buy the near-empty state prison in rural Thomson, Ill., to house federal inmates and up to 100 detainees from …

• Federal officials to tour Illinois prison today

  November 16, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 CHICAGO – Gov. Pat Quinn and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin on Sunday tried to build support and counter criticism of a proposal to sell a prison in rural northwestern Illinois … 1

• Supreme Court will hear Guantanamo detainee case

  October 21, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide whether Guantanamo detainees who are considered no threat can be ordered released in the United States – over the objections of …

• Detainee releases cleared

  September 29, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 MIAMI – The Obama administration’s task force has cleared a third of the Guantanamo detainees for release, and the military has posted notices in the camps in a bid to …

• U.S. making progress on moving detainees

  August 20, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – The Obama administration has secured commitments from nearly a dozen countries willing to accept detainees from Guantanamo Bay and is increasingly confident about its ability to transfer a …

• Pact OK’d on Guantanamo inmates

  June 16, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 MADRID, Spain – European Union and U.S. representatives reached an agreement Monday in which individual European nations can receive inmates cleared for release from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. …

• Top detainee says he lied to CIA after being abused

  June 16, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, told U.S. military officials that he lied to the CIA after being abused, according to … 1

• Obama shifting course on relocating detainees

  June 12, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – The Obama administration has all but abandoned plans to allow Guantanamo detainees who have been cleared for release to live in the United States, administration officials said Thursday, …

• Detainee to get U.S. trial

  June 10, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – The Obama administration pressed ahead Tuesday with its plans to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, flying a detainee to New York to face federal trial despite …

• Pacific nation Palau will take in Uighurs

  June 10, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A12 WELLINGTON, New Zealand – The remote Pacific island nation of Palau said today it has agreed to a U.S. request to temporarily resettle up to 17 Chinese Muslims now held …

• Detainee disclosure ordered by judge

  June 2, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – A federal judge ordered the United States on Monday to publicly reveal unclassified versions of its allegations and evidence justifying the continued imprisonment of more than 100 detainees …

• Congress calls for Guantanamo proposal

  May 25, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – Members of Congress from both parties clamored Sunday for President Barack Obama to develop a plan for dealing with the suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay if he intends …

• Supermax prisons already hold terrorists

  May 22, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A14 WASHINGTON – In news conferences, speeches and debates this week, lawmakers from both parties, as well as the director of the FBI, have sounded alarms about moving Guantanamo Bay detainees …

• Democrats stall funding to close Guantanamo prison

  May 20, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A2 WASHINGTON – Under pressure from Republicans and concerned about the politics of relocating terrorism suspects on U.S. soil, Senate Democrats rejected President Obama’s request for funding to close the Guantanamo …

• Britain may take Guantanamo detainees

  April 28, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 LONDON – British Justice Secretary Jack Straw said Monday his country would consider taking Guantanamo Bay detainees if the United States asks for such help to close the detention facility. …

• Top Taliban officer was former detainee

  March 11, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – The Taliban’s new top operations officer in southern Afghanistan had been a prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, the latest example of a freed detainee who took …

• Prisoner alleges torture by U.S.

  February 24, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 LONDON – A former British resident released after seven years in detention, more than four of them at the Guantanamo Bay military prison, arrived back in London Monday and issued …

• World in brief: Seoul: N. Korea deployed missile

  February 23, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 North Korea recently deployed a new type of medium-range ballistic missile capable of reaching northern Australia and the U.S. territory of Guam, South Korea’s Defense Ministry said today. The report …

• Former detainees on terror list

  February 5, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 CAIRO – Saudi Arabia said Wednesday that 11 men released from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay are now on the kingdom’s most-wanted list despite having attended its touted extremist …

• EU offers help with Guantanamo

  January 27, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 BERLIN – European diplomats said Monday that they are willing to help the Obama administration empty the prison at Guantanamo Bay, but stopped short of making specific promises to give …

• Eric Lewis: Closing Guantanamo the easy part

  January 27, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 President Barack Obama was courageous to issue an executive order closing Guantanamo within 12 months. Having litigated on behalf of Guantanamo detainees for the past five years, I am delighted …

• Obama targets Guantanamo

  January 23, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – Moving to claim what he described as “the moral high ground,” President Barack Obama took a series of steps Thursday to dismantle the most widely condemned components of …

• Obama closing Guantanamo as he reshapes U.S. policy

  January 22, 2009 in Nation/World President Barack Obama put his own clear stamp on U.S. national security policy on Thursday, ordering Guantanamo prison camp closed within a year, naming new envoys to the Middle East, …

• ‘20th hijacker’ tortured by military, official says

  January 14, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A2 WASHINGTON – The top Bush administration official in charge of deciding whether to bring Guantanamo Bay detainees to trial has concluded that the U.S. military tortured a Saudi national who …

• Obama set to act quickly on Guantanamo

  January 13, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama will sign an executive order in his first week in office that sets in motion the closure of the Guantanamo Bay military prison, the highest-profile …

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