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• Arraignment for 9/11 mastermind shown at Md. post

  (AP) -- A firefighter, lawyers and members of the military were among those who spent Saturday at a Maryland Army post watching on closed-circuit television the arraignment of the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.About 80 spectators wat   Read more »

• 9/11 families prepare for Guantanamo arraignment

  Nearly 11 years after the Sept. 11 attacks, family members of some of the victims will watch via closed-circuit TV on Saturday as the self-proclaimed mastermind of the attacks and four co-defendants are arraigned at Guantanamo Bay , Cuba."I want to bear   Read more »

• Appeals court won't release Yemini from Gitmo

  (AP) -- A federal appeals court has upheld a decision not to release a Yemeni detainee from Guantanamo Bay .The original decision said Mashour Abdullah Muqbel Alsabri was being lawfully detained at the U.S. naval prison in Cuba. U.S. District Judge Ricar   Read more »

• Sept 11 case returns to Guantanamo tribunal

  (AP) -- Five men accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11 attacks, including the self-proclaimed mastermind, are headed back to a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay on Saturday, more than three years after President Barack Obama put the case on hold in a f   Read more »

• US transfers 2 Guantanamo prisoners to El Salvador

  (AP) -- Two men from western China who had been held for nearly a decade without charge at the Guantanamo Bay prison amid a diplomatic struggle to find them homes, have been resettled in El Salvador, the U.S. military said Thursday.The men, ethnic Uighur   Read more »

Around the web

• Obama personally prepares 'kill list' of Qaida targets

  describe a paradoxical leader who shunned the legislative deal-making required to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, but approves lethal action without hand-wringing. The report described the top-secret process, which begins with some 5/29/12 from Times of India Read more »

• Rubio examines Gitmo facilities

  Raul, the current president. The visit, Conant said, “will allow Senator Rubio an opportunity to better understand the role Guantanamo Bay plays in US detention operations, and examine how the military commission process for trying the terrorists housed there 5/29/12 from GulfToday.ae Read more »

• Obama's terrorist 'kill list': 5 takeaways

  for presenting a "false choice between our safety and ideals," Obama promised to close down the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, end torture of suspected terrorists, and restore civil liberties that had allegedly been trampled on Bush's watch. Four years 5/29/12 from The Week Read more »

• Rubio at GITMO

  Marco Rubio is at U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, his office said, "As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Rubio is traveling to Guantanamo Bay to conduct oversight of the facility, tour the base, and meet with the commander of Joint Task   from The Buzz: Florida Politics Read more »

• Marco Rubio makes first Cuba visit -- to Guantanamo Bay

  Jeffrey Harbeson of the U.S. Navy. He also will tour Camp VI, the building in which detainees are actually held. d ore here: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2012/05/marco-rubio-makes-first-cuba-visit-to-guantanamo-bay.html#storylink=cpy   from Naked Politics Read more »