http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:46:29 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/Closing_Guantanamo_Bay_Prison_Could_Mean_the_Release_of_Yemenis_Who_Are_Unrepentant_Terrorists.html The single biggest opportunity -- and potential difficulty -- for the incoming administration's plan to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, comes from the same group of Yemeni prisoners, who make up fully 40 percent of the detainees still held there. http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:46:29 +0100 http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/Gates_orders_plan_drafted_for_closing_Guantanamo_prison_%0A____%28AFP%29.html <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081218/pl_afp/usattacksjusticeguantanamoobama"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20081218/capt.cps.ooa42.181208195946.photo00.photo.default-512x351.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=U5_7cKO5rPG8d.6Si7d90w--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, pictured in October 2008, has ordered aides to prepare a plan for closing the Guantanamo prison, a declared priority for president-elect Barack Obama, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Brendan Smialowski)" border="0" /></a>AFP - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has ordered aides to prepare a plan for closing the Guantanamo prison, a declared priority for president-elect Barack Obama, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:46:29 +0100 http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/Closing_Guantanamo_may_not_be_enough%3A_U.N._envoy_%0A____%28Reuters%29.html Reuters - The next U.S. president, whether it is Barack Obama or John McCain, will likely shut down Guantanamo Bay prison camp but may decide to keep some prisoners indefinitely, a U.N. rights envoy said on Wednesday. http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:46:29 +0100 http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/Gates_orders_plan_for_closing_Guantanamo_%0A____%28AFP%29.html <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081218/pl_afp/usattacksguantanamo"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20081218/capt.cps.ooa88.181208212328.photo00.photo.default-512x351.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=VLP338EUd1UTdCwFz1vbZQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, pictured in October 2008, has ordered aides to prepare a plan for closing the Guantanamo prison, a declared priority for president-elect Barack Obama, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Brendan Smialowski)" border="0" /></a>AFP - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has ordered aides to draw up plans for closing the "war on terror" prison at Guantanamo, a declared priority for President-elect Barack Obama, a spokesman said Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:46:29 +0100 http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/Australia_says_considering_Guantanamo_prison_intake_%0A____%28Reuters%29.html <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090102/ts_nm/us_australia_guantanamo"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20090102/2009_01_01t193701_450x338_us_australia_guantanamo.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=bNcUjnmwdJJ2XOGy8tfJ1g--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="Razorwire-topped fences are seen at the 'Camp Six' detention facility at U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay December 10, 2008, in this file image reviewed by the U.S. military. (Mandel Ngan/Pool/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Australia is considering a U.S. request to re-settle inmates from the Guantanamo Bay military prison camp, but would apply strict security screening before accepting an unspecified number.</p><br clear="all"/> http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:46:29 +0100 http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/Plans_Being_Drawn_to_Close_Guantanamo_Prison.html The Pentagon is drawing up plans to shut the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to be prepared for any order from President-elect Barack Obama, who has promised to close the controversial facility after he assumes office Jan. 20, a defense official said yesterday. http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:46:29 +0100 http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/Film_shows_McCain%26%23039%3Bs_release_from_Vietnamese_prison_%0A____%28AP%29.html <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080911/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_vietnam_video"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080911/capt.2284b154a34143bb94b5e76a6201e9fe.mccain_vietnam_video_ny134.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=DEekazvLTdqxhmzoG_hi4Q--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="This still from video obtained exclusively by Associated Press Television News shows Republican presidential candidate and then prisoner of war John McCain after stepping off a bus as he and other POWs were released by the North Vietnamese in Hanoi on March 14, 1973. The frame is part of footage found in the archives of Swedish broadcaster SVT.(AP Photo/AP TV News,SVT)" border="0" /></a>AP - Previously unseen footage emerged Thursday showing Republican presidential candidate John McCain as a proud, stoic prisoner of war in Hanoi on the day his Vietnamese captors released him to the U.S. military.</p><br clear="all"/> http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:46:29 +0100 http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/Film_shows_McCain%26%23039%3Bs_release_from_Vietnamese_prison_%0A____%28AP%29.html <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080912/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_vietnam_video"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080911/capt.2284b154a34143bb94b5e76a6201e9fe.mccain_vietnam_video_ny134.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=DEekazvLTdqxhmzoG_hi4Q--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="This still from video obtained exclusively by Associated Press Television News shows Republican presidential candidate and then prisoner of war John McCain after stepping off a bus as he and other POWs were released by the North Vietnamese in Hanoi on March 14, 1973. The frame is part of footage found in the archives of Swedish broadcaster SVT.(AP Photo/AP TV News,SVT)" border="0" /></a>AP - Previously unseen footage emerged Thursday showing Republican presidential candidate John McCain as a proud, stoic prisoner of war in Hanoi on the day his Vietnamese captors released him to the U.S. military.</p><br clear="all"/> http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:46:29 +0100 http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/Judge_rejects_release_of_two_Guantanamo_inmates.html WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge refused to release two Guantanamo terrorism suspects on Tuesday and upheld the government's authority to keep them, after ordering freedom last month for five prisoners whose case led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling. http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:46:29 +0100 http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/Judge_Orders_Release_of_Five_Guantanamo_Bay_Detainees.html For the first time, a federal judge ordered the release yesterday of detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay after evaluating and rejecting government allegations that five men were dangerous enemy combatants. http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:46:29 +0100