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Guantanamo
guards struggle with hunger striker
Posted: 24 Oct 2008 09:25 PM CDT
By
BEN FOX
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Three years ago, the man known as
Internment Serial Number 669 stopped eating.
Ahmed Zaid Zuhair, a compact 43-year-old with 10 children in Saudi
Arabia and Yemen, had been held at Guantanamo Bay since 2002 without
charges and decided to join a mass hunger strike in protest. [...] ![]() |
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Gaza
Guantanamo
Posted: 24 Oct 2008 09:17 PM CDT
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Lobbies
claim State delaying return of Kenyan Muslim
Posted: 24 Oct 2008 08:34 PM CDT
By
Philip Mwakio
Muslim lobbies claim the Kenya Government could be standing in the way
of Abdulmalik Mohamed’s freedom.
Mr Mohamed is a Kenyan national languishing in Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay
Prison.
Muslim Human Rights Forum Executive Co-ordinator Al-Amin Kimathi during
a Press conference in Mombasa, on Wednesday. Photo: Omondi Onyango
The Muslim Human Rights Forum and the Council of [...] ![]() |
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Lawyers
debate ‘enemy combatant’
Posted: 24 Oct 2008 08:28 PM CDT
WASHINGTON
- A federal court judge who is hearing a historic case involving
Guantanamo Bay detainees lashed out yesterday at Congress and the
Supreme Court for not defining “enemy combatant,” a label that can
trigger a suspect’s detention without charge for the duration of a war.
In a rare public hearing, US District Judge Richard J. [...] ![]() |
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U.S.
to release 2,000 in Iraq in prelude to Hajj
Posted: 24 Oct 2008 08:19 PM CDT
Stars
and Stripes At least 2,000 more detainees will be released before the
end of the year in an ongoing effort to reduce the number held in
American facilities in Iraq, officials said Thursday.
The releases are tied to the Hajj, the Islamic pilgrimage that falls
between Dec. 6 and 11 this [...] ![]() |
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