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• At Christmas, Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Is Reunited With His Family by Andy Worthington

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 521
  by Andy WorthingtonFeatured WriterDandelion Saladwww.andyworthington.co.uk25 December 2009On December 21, the following article, written by Kevin Cullen, was published by the Boston Globe. It brings up to date the story of Oybek Jabbarov, an innocent man from Uzbekistan, held in Guantánamo for nearly eight years, who ...
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• The Clock Ticks Slowest at Gitmo: Why It’s Taking so Long to Close the Prison

  
  On The Hill — Authority: 496
  by Dafna Linzer, ProPublica As we have reported throughout the year, the Obama administration has been serially hampered in its efforts to shutter the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It underestimated the time needed to close the facility and was unprepared for Congressional opposition. Finding countries to ...
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• The New Yorker Asks…

  
  The Vigilant Lens — Authority: 129
  10 questions of you, myself and or some other human in a position to answer them.  These 10 questions are called Unsolved “Mysteries” in the War on Terror.Sure in the end…the author just want’s us to think about these unanswered questions.  But we’ve proven time and time again, that we’re not a nation ...
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• I Dont Think They Wanted Gitmo Terrorists For Christmas

  
  Cutting Through The Fog — Authority: 130
  While all of us are exchanging gifts and Santa is flying all over the world to give our little ones the presents theyve asked for, the people of Thomson, Illinois have already gotten their lump of coal. Thanks to the Obama Administration, their Christmas presents will be the former prison population of Guantanamo ...
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• No Entrapment in Toroto 18 Case

  
  freedetainees.org — Authority: 140
  *** Posted as an FYI since some people still don’t get it. To be fair, this only applies to the youth proceedings but the message applies broadly to the remaining accused also. MS *** No entrapment, judge rules in terrorism casePolice mole vindicated as court clears actions with accused youthAfter years of “trash ...
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• Politicians Are Portraying ‘Gitmo North’ as a Terrific Local Jobs Program — Don’t Count On It

  
  freedetainees.org — Authority: 140
  By Liliana Segura, AlterNet The decision announced by the Obama administration this week to transfer some Guantánamo detainees to an empty supermax prison in northwestern Illinois has been portrayed as another step toward finally shutting down Guantánamo. But the more we learn about the government’s plans for ...
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• Gitmo may have to stay open until 2011

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 647
  By GottaLaff ( via ) Even when Gitmo is finally closed down, theres still the problem of indefinite detention at the Illinois supermax prison. President Barack Obama s commitment to close the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba , by next month may be delayed until 2011 because it will ...
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• Gitmo may have to stay open until at least 2011

  
  Fire Andrea Mitchell! — Authority: 601
  Before the terrorist scum can be transferred to the prison in Illinois, it will take several months before the government can buy the prison and upgrade it to hold the jihadists. Hence, this will delay (even further) the closure of Gitmo until at least 2011 . The AP Reports : The drawn-out construction timetable ...
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• About that moving Gitmo to Illinois…

  
  Fausta's Blog — Authority: 142
  the Obama administration is struggling to come up with the money : While Mr. Obama has acknowledged that he would miss the Jan. 22 deadline for closing the prison that he set shortly after taking office, the administration appeared to take a major step forward last week when he directed subordinates to move “as ...
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• Exclusive! Witness Account of Sterling Hearing on Thomson Correctional Center

  
  Chicago News Bench — Authority: 512
  EXCLUSIVE to Chicago News Bench - Following is a report from one of the hundreds of people attending the Dec. 22, 2009 public hearing in Sterling, Illinois on the proposed Transfer of Guantanamo prisoners to Thomson Correctional Center. The report comes to us from Steve Ruggiero , who is the campaign director for ...
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• William Kelly Plans Lawsuit to Stop Sale of Thomson Prison

  
  Chicago News Bench — Authority: 512
  STERLING, IL - Dec. 22, 2009 - In testimony before a rowdy public hearing in on the proposed Transfer of prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois, William J. Kelly announced plans to file a class-action lawsuit to stop the sale of the prison to the federal government ( ...
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• Gitmo Not Likely to Close Till 2011 at the Earliest

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  We’d already set aside the January 2010 deadline for closing the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay that President Obama set on his first day in office. But now the administration is acknowledging that it probably won’t close the prison down until 2011 — at the earliest. While funding is the most immediate ...
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• Democrats Refuse to Fund Purchase of Gitmo II in Illinois

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Rebuffed this month by skeptical lawmakers when it sought finances to buy a prison in rural Illinois, the Obama administration is struggling to come up with the money to replace the Guantánamo Bay prison. As a result, officials now believe that they are unlikely to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and ...
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• Guantánamo Bay Prisoner Transfer Delayed

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 735
  President Barack Obama made waves just after taking office when he announced his administration’s intent to close the infamous Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba by Jan. 22, 2010, but it looks as if he’s going to miss that deadline. The president and his sidekicks in the federal Bureau of Prisons had been looking to ...
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• Rallying against Gitmo North

  
  Michelle Malkin — Authority: 798
  When no one else will fight for your national security, you have to D-I-Y.Do it yourself.Defend Our Defenders continues to step up to the plate. Here’s the latest on the citizen backlash against the Obama administration’s Gitmo North plans at Thomson Correctional Facility.And details of a potential lawsuit:GITMO ...
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• Raucus Gitmo North hearing in Sterling

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 572
  Although I had a day off from work yesterday, I couldnt spare the time to attend the one public hearing on the transfer of Guantanamo Bay terrorists to Thomson, Illinois. Christmas is on Friday--oh, that was the idea--have the hearing on a day when people are confronted priorities, such as shopping and (in my case) ...
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• Opening Gitmo North Might Take A While

  
  The Skeptical Bureaucrat — Authority: 425
  The Obama administrations plan to buy an Illinois state prison and re-fit it for holding Gitmos detainees has hit a couple of unexpected snags, according to the New York Times ( Plan to Move Guantánamo Detainees Faces New Delay ): [I]n interviews this week, officials estimated that it could take 8 to 10 months to ...
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• Gitmo in the Heartland: Public hearing held.

  
  Report on Arrakis — Authority: 516
  Unfortunately, it appears that very few members of the public got to be heard . It was mostly window dressing public officials trying to talk their way into a new federal slush fund funding source and attempting to calm the sheeple with their magical thinking. An example: Closing Guantanamo will stifle ...
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• Gitmo to Stay Open at Least One More Year

  
  ANIMAL — Authority: 667
  Hey remember when Obama promised to close Gitmo by January 2010? Yeah, well, so much for that! | New York Times |
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• Gitmo Closure Delayed Until 2011 At Earliest

  
  A Blog For All — Authority: 510
  For all the hopeful and wishful thinking by the left that President Obama would close Guantanamo Bays detention facility for terrorists, it now appears that the facility will not close before 2011 at the earliest.As a result, officials now believe that they are unlikely to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, ...
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