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Former Guantanamo Detainee Returns to Work at Al Jazeera

16 hours ago ago from Perspective Journal: News and Politics

Filed under: Bush Administration , Terror , Afghanistan Sami al-Hajj was stopped by Pakastani forces on the border of Afghanistan in 2001. The New York Times reports that the U.S. military accused him of falsifying documents and delivering money to Chechen rebels, and held him for the next seven years without a charge. The nearly 800 detainees to end up at Guantanamo Bay had similar stories, but there was one thing unique about Hajj: he ...

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STOCK MARKET WATCH, Wednesday December 23 – Democratic Underground

21 hours ago ago from Stock Capitalist

STOCK MARKET WATCH, Wednesday December 23, 2009. Bush Administration Officials Convicted = 1. Name(s): David Safavian Bush Administration Officials Charged = 1. Name(s): Richard Lopez Razo Financial Sector Officials Convicted since 1/20/09 = 11 .. The Fed is in no hurry to hike the fed funds rate in the months ahead, pointing to the low capacity utilization rate for factories and mines and the high jobless rate , which in turn is expected to ...

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Closing Guantanamo Costs Money; But There Is an Alternative - The Washington Independent

23 hours ago ago from Congratulations President Obama

MiamiHerald.com Closing Guantanamo Costs Money; But There Is an Alternative The Washington Independent When the Obama administration announced its plan earlier this month to transfer military commissions-bound Guantanamo ... Plan to Move Guantánamo Detainees Faces New Delay New York Times Officials seek to reassure Illinois residents on Guantanamo prison transfer Los Angeles Times Obama Plan to Move Guantanamo Inmates ...

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About that moving Gitmo to Illinois…

15 hours ago ago from Fausta's Blog

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 expeditiously as possible” to acquire the Thomson Correctional Center, a nearly vacant maximum-security Illinois prison, and to ...

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Obama’s Plan to Move Gitmo Detainees Hit a Snag – Considered Circumventing Congress

18 hours ago ago from The Lonely Conservative

This would be good news, if not for the fact that the Obama administration will do anything to get its way. The New York Times reported Obama was unable to convinve the big spending Congress to include an extra $200 million in the military budget to buy him a prison in Illinois. 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 ...

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