Read more Guantanamo prisoners stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/13824/guantanamo-prisoners.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 14:29:28 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74292/obama-we-wont-make-gitmo-deadline.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGuantanamo Bay prison won't close by the January deadline he set when he took office, President Obama admitted today, but he still hopes to shut it next year. Obama is "not disappointed" in missing the deadline, he says in a FoxNews interview airing this morning, since closing the facility is...http://www.newser.com/story/74292/obama-we-wont-make-gitmo-deadline.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 18 Nov 2009 5:40:33 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74054/prison-in-illinois-may-replace-gitmo.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe leading contender to take Guantanamo Bay's prisoners when it shuts down is a federal prison in Illinois, sources tell the Chicago Tribune . The near-empty facility in the small town of Thompson, about 150 miles west of Chicago, would take an unspecified but "limited" number of Gitmo's remaining 215 or...http://www.newser.com/story/74054/prison-in-illinois-may-replace-gitmo.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 14 Nov 2009 14:04:02 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74007/prosecutors-hope-plea-deals-will-close-gitmo-cases.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFederal and military prosecutors looking to convict Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other high-profile Guantanamo Bay detainees are competing with each other to offer plea bargains to lower-profile inmates in exchange for testimony. Some detainees have remained at Gitmo because they are considered too difficult to prosecute, and the evidence against...http://www.newser.com/story/74007/prosecutors-hope-plea-deals-will-close-gitmo-cases.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 13 Nov 2009 16:45:36 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73760/gitmo-mickey-dees-now-hiring.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe only McDonald's in Cuba is looking for an assistant manager. An ad posted on a job website last week invited candidates with valid American passports to apply for a job at the franchise at the Guantanamo Bay base. Burgers are shipped in from Florida and detainees cleared by the...http://www.newser.com/story/73760/gitmo-mickey-dees-now-hiring.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 11 Nov 2009 7:32:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73031/6-gitmo-uighurs-arrive-in-palau.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSix Chinese Muslims newly released from Guantanamo Bay traded life behind bars today for rooms with ocean view in the tiny Pacific nation of Palau. The Uighurs, in US custody since 2001, were met at the airport in the middle of the night by President Johnson Toribiong and taken to...http://www.newser.com/story/73031/6-gitmo-uighurs-arrive-in-palau.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 01 Nov 2009 7:56:27 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72856/no-clear-way-for-us-to-prosecute-gitmo-prisoners.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama is edging closer to his goal of closing the Guantanamo Bay prison: Congress has approved detainee trials on US soil and the National Defense Authorization Act, passed yesterday, attempts to repair the damaged legality of President Bush’s military-commissions system. But hurdles remain, with legal scholars split on using...http://www.newser.com/story/72856/no-clear-way-for-us-to-prosecute-gitmo-prisoners.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 29 Oct 2009 23:11:11 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/72281/stars-demand-bush-music-torture-files.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA coalition of celebrity musicians is demanding the release of Bush administration documents revealing how music was used to torture Guantanamo Bay inmates. Songs from Metallica, The Real Slim Shady , and the Star Spangled Banner , among many others, were blasted all day for days on end to rattle prisoners, inmates...http://www.newser.com/story/72281/stars-demand-bush-music-torture-files.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 22 Oct 2009 2:55:52 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/72163/senate-oks-us-trials-for-gitmo-prisoners.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama won a modest victory today in his continuing effort to close the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba and allowing the government to continue to transfer detainees to the US for prosecution. The plan to permit terror suspects to be shipped to U.S. soil to face trial passed...http://www.newser.com/story/72163/senate-oks-us-trials-for-gitmo-prisoners.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 20 Oct 2009 19:54:06 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71980/bush-ag-court-terror-trials-too-dangerous.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Obama administration wants to try alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other Guantanamo detainees in federal courts—and that's a major mistake, says Michael Mukasey. Terrorism trials pose "overwhelming" security challenges, and classified information would have to be revealed, warns George Bush's relatively moderate third attorney general in...http://www.newser.com/story/71980/bush-ag-court-terror-trials-too-dangerous.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 19 Oct 2009 4:40:46 CDT