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unusual facts about Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom



Abdul Haq Wasiq

In March 2012 it was reported that Ibrahim Spinzada, described as "Karzai's top aide" had spoken with the five men, in Guantanamo, earlier that month, and had secured their agreement to be transferred to Qatar.

Abdulla Majid Al Naimi

Bahraini Member of Parliament Mohammed Khalid expressed dismay at the arrest of a third former Guantanamo captive by Saudi authorities, and said that the Saudis had not offered a formal justification for his arrest.

Ahcene Zemiri

On July 27, 2008 Michelle Shephard, writing in the Toronto Star, reported that Canadian security officials had interviewed Zemiri and two others at Guantanamo in addition to Khadr.

Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame

Representative Howard McKeon, Chairman of the United States House Committee on Armed Services, said transferring Warsame out of Guantanamo "directly contradicts Congressional intent and the will of the American people", and Senator Susan Collins stated that captured foreign nationals "should be tried in a military commission, not a federal civilian court in New York or anywhere else in our country".

Ahmed F. Mehalba

Mehalba received a medical discharge from the Army in May 2001 and was later hired a San Diego defense contractor, Titan Corporation, to be an Arabic-English translator at Guantanamo Bay.

Al-Asadi v. Bush

On July 3, 2008, US District Court Judge Thomas F. Hogan issued an order regarding former Guantanamo captives, who might seek relief for their former detentions.

Alfredo Rostgaard

Born in Guantanamo in 1943 Rostgaard studied at the Jose Joaquin Tejada school of art in Santiago de Cuba.

Anne-Marie Lizin

Shanita Simmons interviews Lizin during a visit to Guantanamo

Belmar

Richard Belmar (born 1979), a British man who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps

Bruce Vargo

Vargo was interviewed about the use of extreme force in the force-feeding of hunger striker Ahmed Zaid Salim Zuhair.

Cageprisoners

By November 2010, The Guardian reported that US embassy cables in the Wikileaks showed then-U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg, Cynthia Stroum, praising Begg for his campaign to persuade European nations to take in Guantanamo detainees for resettlement.

Cuba national cricket team

Their teams played in leagues and cup competitions in Santiago de Cuba, Guantánamo and Baraguá.

David Woods

David B. Woods, USN Admiral, former commandant Guantanamo prison camp

Dirty thirty

Dirty thirty (Guantanamo Bay Naval Base), a group of Arab captives in Guantanamo, believed to be Osama bin Laden bodyguards

Djamel Ameziane

On July 27 Michelle Shephard, writing in the Toronto Star, reported that other Canadian security officials had interviewed Ahcene Zemiri, Djamel Ameziane and Mohamedou Ould Slahi, three Guantanamo captives who had lived in Canada.

Ghulam Rabbani

Abdul Al-Rahim Ghulam Rabbani (born ca. 1969), Pakistani citizen held by the US military at the Guantanamo camps in Cuba

Guantánamo

The municipality is divided into the barrios of Arroyo Hondo, Baitiquirí, Bano, Bayate, Caimanera, Camarones, Caridad, Corralillo, Cuatro Caminos, Filipinas, Glorieta, Gobierno, Guaso, Hospital, Indios, Isleta, Jaibo Abajo, Las Lajas, Macurijes, Mercado, Ocujal, Parroquia, Palma de San Juan, Rastro, Tiguabos and Vínculo.

Guantanamo Bay detainee uniforms

In May 2006, a Turkish judge barred Loai al-Saqa, a suspected terrorist, from being brought into his own trial, because he chose to wear an orange jumpsuit for the hearing, demonstrative of his solidarity with those in Guantanamo, and his intentions to protest or resist legal authority.

Guantanamo Bay homicide accusations

In January 2010, Harper's Weekly and NBC News released the report of a joint investigation, based on accounts by four former Military Intelligence staff, stationed at the time at Guantanamo.

Guantánamo Province

Guantánamo also has a high number of immigrants from Jamaica, meaning that many buildings are comparable to those of the French Quarter of New Orleans in the U.S. state of Louisiana.

Guantanamo: My Journey

Jason Leopold, lead investigative reporter of Truthout, who landed the first interview with Hicks, described how moved he was by Hicks' book and the torture he endured.

Gul Mohammad

::This article is about the cricket player, for the Guantanamo detainee see Mohammad Gul.

Jamal J. Elias

One of the justifications offered for the continued detention of over three dozen of the Guantanamo captives was that they had participated in the activities of a Pakistani Islamic missionary group named Tablighi Jamaat.

Jamil el Banna

On March 29, 2007, UK Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett announced that the UK Government had negotiated the return from Guantanamo of el-Banna's traveling companion, Bisher al-Rawi, also a legal British resident.

Jarallah

Jaralla al-Marri, Qatari citizen, former detainee at the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp

Jeffrey D. Gordon

In his position as Pentagon spokesman, on July 25, 2009 Gordon wrote to a senior editor at The Miami Herald, reporting what he characterized as sexual harassment by its reporter Carol Rosenberg, whose beat is the Guantanamo detention camp.

Karen L. Henderson

In 2008, Henderson, ruled that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a statute that applies by its terms to all "persons" did not apply to detainees at Guantánamo.

Maha el-Samnah

In 2007 Michelle Shephard, author of Guantanamo's Child, reported Maha's comments on the first phone call her son Omar was allowed to make from Guantanamo.

Mahfouz

Sabir Mahfouz Lahmar, an Algerian-born naturalised Bosnian citizen currently detained by the United States in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Medical torture

The SERE ("Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape") program's chief psychologist, Col. Morgan Banks, issued guidance in early 2003 for the "behavioral science consultants" who helped to devise Guantánamo's interrogation strategy although he has emphatically denied that he had advocated the use of SERE counter-resistance techniques to break down detainees.

Military Commissions Act of 2009

According to Edwards, some Obama appointees had tried to get new rules that would have caused the Prosecution to abandon charging Guantanamo captives such as Omar Khadr with murder.

Mohammed Al Afghani

Muhammad Rahim al Afghani, captured in Lahore in 2008, transferred to Guantanamo

Naimi

Abdulla Majid Al Naimi, Bahraini formerly held in extrajudicial detention in the U.S. Guantanamo Bay detention camp

Naval Consolidated Brig, Charleston

On October 12, 2011, the Charleston Post and Courier reported on memos from E.P. Giambastiani to Charles Stimson Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs, requesting that Hamdy, Padilla and al Marri be transferred to Guantanamo.

No blood, no foul

In Guantanamo, “doctors were made to agree to torture in advance and to live by the motto: “No blood, no foul.”

Pacha Khan Zadran

Four Guantanamo detainees Khan Zaman, his son Gul Zaman, his brother Abib Sarajuddin,and his neighbor Mohammad Gul, were all captured on the night of January 21, 2002, early during the administration of Hamid Karzai.

Patricia Sullivan

Patricia A. Sullivan (lawyer), lawyer who assisted captives held in extrajudicial detention at Guantanamo -- Guantanamo Bay attorneys

Quran desecration

In May 2005, a report in Newsweek, claiming that it was U.S. interrogators who desecrated the Quran at the Guantanamo Bay base, further sparking Muslim unrest.

Rasul v. Bush

The United States Supreme Court, over the administration’s objections, agreed in November 2003 to hear the cases of the Guantánamo detainees, namely Rasul v Bush, which was consolidated with al Odah v. Bush (the latter represented twelve Kuwaiti men).

Rasul v. Rumsfeld

Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal, and Rhuhel Ahmed were featured in the The Road to Guantánamo (2006) a docu-drama by Michael Winterbottom about their experiences based on their published account, beginning with their trip to Pakistan, through their detention at Guantánamo.

Rendition: Guantanamo

He claims that the main character was not going to be Moazzam Begg, an actual detainee of Guantanamo, but was instead going to be a man named Adam.

Richard Bassett

Richard Basset (JAG), investigated claims Guantanamo guards bragged about abusing captives, see Heather Cerveny

Rick Baccus

After General Baccus’ departure from Guantanamo Bay, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave the Military Intelligence Team control over the Military Police and all aspects of Camp X-Ray and, later, Camp Delta.

SS Empire Dunstan

She arrived at San Pedro de Macorís on 8 February, departing four days later for Guantanamo Bay, arriving on 14 February and sailing two days later for New York, where she arrived on 23 February.

Steven David

Steven H. David, formerly a Chief Defense Counsel at Guantanamo, currently a Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court

Susan Crawford

Susan J. Crawford, American judge and senior Pentagon official, the convening authority for Guantanamo military commissions 2007–2010

Team Delta

Team Delta has provided expertise and reality sequences for We Can Make You Talk on the History Channel, Guantanamo Guidebook on Channel 4UK, and independent film maker Coco Fusco's Operation Atropos where Mr. Moore and Mr. Ritz are listed as co-directors.

Wild Nights in Guantanamo Bay

Wild Nights in Guantanamo Bay is the first full-length album by The Kominas.

Zidan

Ibrahim Mahdy Achmed Zeidan, Libyan man detained at Guantanamo Bay from 2002 to 2007


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