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Find out what's going on in your town. en-us Rochester -- Shipping Guantanamo Bay detainees to Michigan would endanger the safety of the state and nation, require massive security details and make the area a "magnet" for foreign and domestic terrorists, according to terrorism experts and Standish... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6748746/rally-says-no-to-gitmo-detainees Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:00:08 -0700 Shipping Guantanamo Bay detainees to Michigan would endanger the safety of the state and nation, according to terrorist experts and Standish residents who spoke Monday evening at a town hall meeting. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6748763/rally-says-no-to-gitmo-detainees Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:12:08 -0700 The possible plan to bring Guantanamo Bay terror suspects to Michigan drew intense fire as a group opposed to the move says transferring prisoners here will make the state a... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6748683/gitmo-town-hall-meeting-draws-sharp-debate Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:08:08 -0700 It's a major effort to stop Guantanamo Bay prisoners from being housed on American soil. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6748665/michigan-coalition-to-stop-gitmo-north-holds-forum Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:07:08 -0700 The confessed 9/11 mastermind and four other killers from Guantanamo Bay may soon be flown to New York to face death penalty trials, the Daily News has learned. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6747030/n-y-9-11-trial-looms-feds-weigh-moving-terror-kingpin,-cohorts Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:04:08 -0700 DAYTON -- A graduate school dean at Wright State University says he never witnessed abuses of detainees involving health care professionals during his time at Guantanamo Bay. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6730073/psychologist-turned-dean-defends-guantanamo-work Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:32:08 -0700 During an interrogation at Guantanamo Bay in April 2003, an Army psychologist watched while MPs pinned a detainee to his knees and then repeatedly slammed his upper body and face to the floor up to 30 times. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6726580/retired-colonel-puzzled-by-guantanamo-critics Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:05:08 -0700 FAIRBORN - Soon after arriving at Guantanamo Bay in early 2003 as the chief psychologist for intelligence gathering, Col. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6726593/controversy-over-gitmo-abuses-follows-wsu-dean Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:22:08 -0700 As New Jerseyans, we can intimately recall the events of September 11, 2001 and remember the panic, outrage, and grief that washed over us.  Memories of the hole in the Manhattan skyline, the smoke that blanketed our suburban skies and the pain of losing nearly... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6715075/the-time-for-engagement Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:30:08 -0700 Associated Press - September 10, 2009 7:14 PM ET BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - An empty jail where promoters tried unsuccessfully to bring Guantanamo Bay terrorism detainees has landed a 10-year... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6711458/montana-jail-lands-contract-with-security-firm Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:14:08 -0700 KOROR, Palau (AP) — Three Chinese Muslims imprisoned for years at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay have agreed to be released to the tiny Pacific nation of Palau, their lawyers told The Associated Press.The deals struck recently with U.S. officials are the first... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6708552/lawyers-guantanamo-uighurs-agree-to-go-to-palau Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:42:08 -0700 The Pentagon's top lawyer on Thursday said the Obama administration remains committed to closing the Guantanamo Bay prison by early next year but stopped short of assuring it will happen. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6708900/dod-lawyer-hedges-on-closing-gitmo-by-january Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:42:08 -0700 When the United States started using Guantanamo Bay to indefinitely detain individuals without change, and later to torture them, the villains who authorized the malicious program became war criminals. They, and we don't know quite yet who, spat in the faces of every U. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6709427/obama-witch-hunt-is-necessary Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:00:08 -0700 Defense Secretary Robert Gates has rebuffed efforts by Rep. Pete Hoekstra to get more information about the detainees at Guantanamo Bay detention center before a decision on whether to relocate them to a prison in Standish. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6695132/michigan-rep-refused-gitmo-detainee-info Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:00:08 -0700 Defense Secretary Robert Gates has rebuffed efforts by Rep. Pete Hoekstra to get more information about the detainees at Guantanamo Bay detention center before a decision on whether to relocate them to a prison in Standish. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6695143/michigan-rep-refused-gitmo-detainee-info Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:00:08 -0700 Journalist Besan Sheikh recently visited the Guantanamo Bay prison facility run by the US, where al-Qaeda and other prisoners from Bush's 'war on terror' are held. (Many of the prisoners appear to have been sold by the Taliban or swept up indiscriminately in the... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6683194/guantanamo-detainees-most-requested-books-from-prison-library-harry-potte Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:23:08 -0700 United States Transfers Two Guantanamo Bay Detainees to the Government of Portugal The Department of Justice today announced that two Syrian nationals have been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the control of the government of Portugal. As... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6672775/conservative-thoughts-two-guantanamo-bay-detainees-transferred-to-portugal Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:16:08 -0700 WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge ruled that evidence suggests a Kuwaiti man held at Guantanamo Bay was part of terrorist forces, even though in a bid for freedom he claimed to be an Islamic studies teacher who didn't associate with extremists.Fawzi al-Odah, 32, sued for... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6661396/judge-denies-kuwaiti-s-request-for-gitmo-release Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:05:45 -0700 From Abu Ghraib to Guantanamo Bay, American-run prisons — especially those outside the United States — have received considerable well-earned negative attention over the last decade, proving that a picture really is worth a thousand words, Americans’ actions in... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6647971/adams-prisons-need-an-overhaul Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:00:08 -0700 WASHINGTON — Justice Department officials said Friday that two Syrians held at Guantanamo Bay have been sent to Portugal. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6640037/two-guantanamo-detainees-sent-to-portugal Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:35:08 -0700