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George Clooney to Make Movie About Gitmo Detainee Salim Hamdan

Amol Rajan, Arifa Akbar, Independent UK. August 15, 2008.
The film will be based on The Challenge, by journalist Jonathan Mahler, which portrays the fight for a fair trial for Osama bin Laden's driver.

Suicide Note from a Guantanamo Bay Detainee

ZP Heller, Brave New Films AlterNet: Video. August 13, 2008.
From "My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me"

End Psychologists' Role in State Torture

Stephen Soldz, Boston Globe. August 12, 2008.
Psychologists have become accomplices to torture. They owe it to their profession to oppose abuses, not participate in them.

Mayer: Justice Department Lawyer Says Lunatics Running the Country

ZP Heller, Brave New Films AlterNet: Video. July 28, 2008.
"The Dark Side" author talks torture with Bill Moyers.

Supreme Court to Bush: You Are Not Above the Law, Gitmo Detainees Have Right to Habeas Corpus

Liliana Segura, AlterNet. June 13, 2008.
After a six-year battle that cut to the Constitution's core, a look at how advocates for Gitmo prisoners won a major victory against Bush.

Why Has the British Government Forsaken Gitmo Prisoner Binyam Mohamed?

Clive Stafford Smith, Independent UK. May 30, 2008.
As the Pentagon prepares to prosecute Binyam Mohamed in a lawless military tribunal, his own government is MIA.

Sami al-Haj: Free After 6 Years in Gitmo

Mike Connery, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. May 2, 2008.
A Sudanese cameraman for Al Jazeera is finally released after 6 and a half years in Guantanamo.

The Murat Kurnaz Story: An Innocent Man Tortured at Gitmo Tells All [VIDEO]

Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. March 31, 2008.
An innocent man held as a terror detainee for years talks about how Americans tortured him in Afghanistan and Gitmo.

Afghanistan: The Brutal and Unnecessary War the Media Aren't Telling You About

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. February 26, 2008.
It's easy to forget that the road to Guantánamo began in places like Kandahar and Jalalabad.

Six Years Since An American Gulag Was Created 90 miles Off Our Shore

Cliff Schecter, Cliff Schecter's Blog AlterNet: Video. January 11, 2008.
Today marks the 6th Anniversary of when our democracy was officially put in shackles under cover of the night.

Six Years of Guantanamo: Enough Is Enough!

Andy Worthington, AlterNet. January 11, 2008.
The sixth anniversary of the creation of Bush's legal "black hole" is upon us.

CIA Jet Carrying Four Tons of Cocaine Also Made Trips to Gitmo [VIDEO]

Manila Ryce, The Largest Minority AlterNet: Video. December 27, 2007.
Perhaps the reason why the CIA’s well-documented role in the global drug trade is never really acknowledged is because it never really ended.

Britain Gives Rude Welcome to Innocent Gitmo Prisoners

Victoria Brittain, Comment Is Free. December 24, 2007.
To admit that they pose no threat would show how complacent the Brits have been in supporting the U.S.'s black prison network.

Gitmo and the Supreme Court: What Happened?

Andy Worthington, AlterNet. December 22, 2007.
The Supreme Court's decision in June 2004 has been undermined twice by Congress in the intervening years.

Huckabee Claims "If Anything," We Treat Inmates at Gitmo "Too Nice"

Matt Corley, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. December 21, 2007.
FBI agents who worked there have said detainees were subjected to harsh conditions, including "the use of growling dogs" to "intimidate detainees."

Shocking Stories of Sudanese Aid Workers Just Released From Guantánamo

Andy Worthington, Andy Worthington's Blog AlterNet: PEEK. December 15, 2007.
I thank God almighty and express my gratefulness to you," Adel Hamad said. "I can finally see the light after the darkness."

Gitmo Detainee Attempts Suicide, US Navy Cmdr Claims He's Trying to Make America Look Bad

Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: PEEK. December 5, 2007.
Melissa McEwan: We have forgotten he is human. He is trying to remind us.

At Gitmo, Toilet Paper Is a Reward

GottaLaff, Brave New Films AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. December 4, 2007.
GottaLaff: A leaked copy of a March 2004 manual of Gitmo's "Standard Operating Procedures" for Camp Delta was published yesterday.

Rumsfeld Flees France, Fearing Arrest

World NewsOctober 29, 2007.
Anti-torture protesters in France believe that the defense secretary fled over the open border to Germany, where a war crimes case against Rumsfeld was dismissed by a federal court.

Close Gitmo Now [VIDEO]

Adam Howard, AlterNet: Video. June 11, 2007.
Colin Powell calls on the Bush Administration to end the torture in Guantanamo and to give terror suspects real trials in America.

A Dubious Honor

Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. June 5, 2007.
Jayne Lyn Stahl: The U.S. now has the dubious honor of being the first country in modern history to try an individual who was a child at the time of their alleged war crimes.

Gitmo prisoner David Hicks MTV parody [VIDEO]

Evan Derkacz, AlterNet: Video. March 29, 2007.
Visit a Gitmo "crib"...

David Hicks pleads guilty from Gitmo -- sort of [VIDEO]

Evan Derkacz, AlterNet: Video. March 29, 2007.
Through his lawyers, some of whom are no longer on the case...