Guantanamo Bay Naval Base

Whereas at last Obama officially publishes said memo creating Gitmo North in Illinois of all places

2009-12-16 04:34:32

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'Liberty'

2007-12-14 00:00:00

Most Americans would probably agree with the 19th century abolitionist Wendell Phillips that "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." But our vigilance has been erratic, and we have paid the price for our inattention. This nation's history is littered...

A voice from Gitmo's darkness

2007-01-11 00:00:00

Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba — I AM WRITING from the darkness of the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo in the hope that I can make our voices heard by the world. My hand quivers as I hold the pen. In January 2002, I was picked up in Pakistan,...

The shadow of Gitmo

2008-10-12 00:00:00

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...

How to try terrorists

2008-12-10 00:00:00

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...

The Supreme Court's habeas hearing

2007-12-09 00:00:00

Afew months after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. government transported almost 700 suspected terrorists who had been captured abroad to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, where the Bush administration assumed -- wrongly -- that they would have no...

Feedback for Wednesday, May 8

2013-05-07 16:58:33

Local high schools recognized nationally Seven local public high schools are ranked among the top 2,000 in the nation, according to an online list released by Newsweek magazine Monday. More than 5,000 schools were invited to participate and nearly 2,...

Hagerstown sets new weather record with hottest day ever in June

2012-06-29 16:50:00

A new weather record was set in Hagerstown on Friday. The temperature reached 100.7 degrees at 3:57 p.m., the hottest day in June ever recorded in Hagerstown, according to i4weather.net, a website operated by local weather observer Greg Keefer. It...

Local veterans organizations place wreaths at the memorial in Martin L. "Marty" Snook Park

2011-11-11 16:01:00

More 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...

Cheney favors gay marriage but believes states should make the decision, not the federal gov't

2009-06-02 05:05:00

WASHINGTON (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...

Eight US Soldiers Killed in All Day Battle At Remote Outposts In Afghanistan

2009-10-04 21:54:00

Eight 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...

Official list of Guantanamo Bay detainees

2006-05-15 00:00:00

The 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 --...

Cynthia Marie Fagundes, the widow of Marine Corporal Paul Fagundes, watches her husband's casket carried from St. Anne's Church in Fall River, Mass. after his funeral service.

2010-07-13 00:00:00