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Official list of Guantanamo Bay detainees
The Associated PressThe list provided by the Pentagon of all current and former detainees at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, held between January 2002 and May 15, 2006; includes the names of the detainees, country of citizenship, and approximate age: 1. HICKS, DAVID --...Tags: Egypt, Tajikistan, Iraq, Bahrain, Russia
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Local veterans organizations place wreaths at the memorial in Martin L. "Marty" Snook Park
dona@herald-mail.comMore than 80 people gathered on a cold, blustery Friday morning for a ceremony to honor the 22 million surviving veterans who have served in the armed forces and the millions more who have died, either in military service or long past their discharge or...Tags: Armed Forces, Veterans Day, U.S. Navy, Defense, World War I (1914-1918)
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US military deaths in Afghan region at 930
Staff WriterAs of Friday, March 5, 2010, at least 930 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count. The AP count is four more than...Tags: Fires, U.S. Military, Armed Forces, Firearms, Pakistan
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The shadow of Gitmo
Among the most ignoble legacies of the George W. Bush administration will be the detention center for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Administration officials drunk on executive power, disdainful of due process and indifferent...Tags: International Court or Tribunal, Terrorism, U.S. Military, Prisons, Trials
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How to try terrorists
In confessing responsibility for the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other defendants may have hastened just punishment for their roles in an atrocity that killed almost 3,000 people. Satisfaction at that possibility is tempered, however, by...Tags: Terrorism, Central Intelligence Agency, Prosecution, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Defendants
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Report Links CIA To Military Harsh Interrogations
Associated Press WriterThe brutal treatment of prisoners by the military at Guantanamo Bay, Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and Afghanistan was systematic and a direct result of the CIA's early use of harsh interrogation tactics, according to a Senate report. The 232-page report...Tags: Terrorism, Lawyers, Employees, U.S. Military, Prisons
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Returning war dead: A reappearing image
The Swampby Mark Silva The flag-draped coffin of Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers of Hopewell, Va., who was 30 and the victim of an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan, arrived late last night at Dover Air Force Base in Maryland. It was......Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, George H.W. Bush, United States, Armed Forces, Explosions
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Richard Armitage: Bush's CIA tortured
The Swampby Mark Silva Richard Armitage, who served as chief deputy to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, says now that he would have resigned if he had known that the CIA was interrogating suspected terrorists with "water-boarding,'' that simulated drowning....Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Colin Powell, Prisons, Richard L Armitage, Abusive Behavior
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Whereas at last Obama officially publishes said memo creating Gitmo North in Illinois of all places
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Eight US Soldiers Killed in All Day Battle At Remote Outposts In Afghanistan
Web ReporterEight U.S. Soldiers have died after hundreds of insurgents armed with rifles and rocket-propelled grenades storms a pair of remote outposts near the Pakistan border. 20 Afghan security troops were also captured. The battle started at dawn on Saturday and...Tags: Terrorism, U.S. Military, Kabul (Afghanistan), Firearms, Pakistan
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N.C. Soldier Killed in Afghanistan
Staff WriterA soldier from Person County was among three Americans killed in Afghanistan on Saturday, the U.S. Department of Defense has confirmed. Pfc. Richard K. Jones, 21, of Roxboro, was a member of the 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Defense, Afghanistan, U.S. Military, Death
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Cheney favors gay marriage but believes states should make the decision, not the federal gov't
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday he supports gays being able to marry but believes states, not the federal government, should make the decision. "I think, you know, freedom means freedom for everyone," Cheney said...Tags: Terrorism, Prisons, U.S. Military, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Prisoners and Detainees
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