Guantanamo Bay is not standing in the way of prisoner Muhammad Rahim al-Afghani’s desire to find love. His lawyer Carlos Warner runs account an account for the terrorist on Match.com.
Muhammad Rahim al-Afghani – a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay and Senior Al-Qaeda member – called GOP frontrunner Donald Trump an idiot and took up for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), saying McCain is a war hero. He also wonders why Caitlyn
Thursday afternoon in Columbia, South Carolina, former Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) joined Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) and Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) for a “Presidential Town Hall” series that Scott is hosting with the Republican presidential candidates.
Among the many foreign policy disasters for which President Barack Obama has been responsible, none is uglier than the recent Cuba deal. We are less safe because of Iran, Russia, and ISIS, But the Cuba deal has made us less free.
A U.S. military judge called off a pretrial hearing for five Guantánamo Bay detainees accused of playing a role in the Sept. 11 attacks against the American homeland, said a Pentagon spokesman.
According to reports, former Guantanamo Bay detainees were arrested near the Belgian city of Antwerp on terrorism charges. “We have dismantled a serious recruiting network for Syria,” a Belgian counterterrorism official said.
Obama plans to present the plan to Congress in the coming days, Earnest added, calling it a priority for Obama as he prepares to leave office. Earnest lectured that Republican members of Congress who block efforts to close the prison were on the wrong side of the debate, arguing that “closing the prison is actually in the national security interests of the United States.”
During Monday’s flag-raising ceremony at the newly reopened Cuba embassy in Washington, D.C., Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez made a point to note to reporters that the reestablishment of diplomatic relations would not be complete for the communist dictatorship without the “return” of the entire Guantánamo Bay military base to Cuban sovereignty.
The Pentagon announced Saturday that six Guantánamo Bay detainees, all Yemenis, had been transferred out of the military facility and into Oman, bordering their native country. Among the group were two men believed to have served as bodyguards for Osama Bin Laden.
Two of Uruguay’s six former Guantánamo Bay prisoners are planning to wed in Uruguay on Saturday, June 6. The women, reportedly both converts to Islam, are Uruguayan natives and are believed to have met the men in February, three months after their arrival to the nation.
Retired U.S. soldier Layne Morris is criticizing Canadian judge’s decision to allow the release of Omar Khadr — a former Guantanamo Bay detainee convicted of war crimes for killing U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer in 2002.
A former Guantanamo Bay inmate convicted of killing a U.S. soldier was released on bail Thursday after a judge refused a last-ditch attempt by the Canadian government to keep him imprisoned.
Five of the six former Guantánamo Bay detainees being hosted by Uruguay are refusing to sign an accord with the local United Nations body that would pay for their rent and utilities for one year, demanding that the United States subsist their lives and claiming they were promised three years of free living in the Latin American nation.
Rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight would be more suited to await trial in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where detainees have better living conditions, his attorney claimed Thursday.
At least three of five Taliban fighters swapped for the freedom of Bowe Bergdahl, a Taliban captive now being charged with desertion, are reportedly actively making efforts to join the terrorist cause once again.
If he had a chance to begin his presidency anew, “I think I would have closed Guantanamo on the first day,” President Obama announced today in Cleveland, as some in the crowd applauded.
The nation of Uruguay is struggling to properly integrate the six former Guantánamo Bay prisoners they accepted from the United States into society. Two of the men were forced into hotel housing after a heated “political and religious dispute,” while a third has traveled to Argentina to demand that the Southern Cone nation take in more prisoners from Gitmo.
Released Guantanamo Bay prisoner Abdul Rauf, who recently pledged loyalty to ISIS, was killed by a drone strike in Afghanistan.
On February 4, Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) lashed out against those pretending the closure of Guantanamo Bay will save America from terror attacks and said that as far as he’s concerned, terrorists “can rot in hell.”
Thursday a the Senate Armed Services Committee about the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) grilled principal deputy under secretary of defense Brian McKeon about anger over prison causing terror attacks. Cotton said, “They don’t attack us for
WASHINGTON — Outgoing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, in an interview with CNN, indicated that he felt pressure from Obama’s White House to release detainees from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Friday at the White House press briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest said the Obama administration has no plans to slow down or stop the release of terrorists from Guantanamo Bay, even after reports that one of the five prisoners traded
In a speech at a summit of Latin American nations this week, Cuban communist dictator Raúl Castro insisted that should the United States not gift Cuba the return of the Guantánamo Bay military base, further talks to normalize relations with the rogue island nation would yield little progress.
ARLINGTON, VA — Representatives for a Guantanamo Bay prisoner argued before Obama’s Periodic Review Board (PRB) on Tuesday that the al-Qaeda linked detainee should be reunited with his family in Yemen where the U.S.-backed government collapsed last week.
On “Fox News Sunday,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said no more terrorist should be released from Guantanamo Bay. Johnson said, “People at Guantanamo Bay are evil people and they will, many of them will return to battle. One of the
