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An Afghan detainee was dragged from his cell to his first pretrial hearing at Guantanamo on Wednesday, then refused to participate, telling the judge he felt "helpless." Mohammed Kamin joined a growing detainee boycott of the war-crimes trials at the Guantanamo Bay Navy base in southeast Cuba....
President Bush will tour the 82nd Airborne Division barracks where a paratrooper's father shot video of substandard conditions, including sewage standing in a bathroom.Division spokesman Maj. Tom Earnhardt said Wednesday that Bush will tour the barracks during his Thursday visit to Fort Bragg....
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- An Afghan detainee accused of spying on U.S. forces tried to bite and spit on his guards Wednesday, and was forced into his war court arraignment in handcuffs and leg shackles. ''I don't want any trial,'' protested Mohammed Kamin, wearing the bright orange prison...
By now, it's no secret that Blackwater Worldwide plans to open a facility in Otay Mesa to train Navy personnel in counterterrorism. What's not well-known is that the Navy has been outsourcing to independent contractors to train sailors for years. KPBS Reporter Amita Sharma has more.
CZECH REPUBLIC: People Battle Radar Site By Zoltán Dujisin PRAGUE, May 21 (IPS) - On the early morning of Apr. 28, 20 Greenpeace activists occupied an area of the Brdy woods 90km southwest of Prague, where the Czech right-wing cabinet intends to set up a radar base that will extend the U.S....
Inhabitants of the capital city were last Monday, May 19, treated to a great air show by the Cameroonian military at the 101 air force base in Yaounde. The show consisted of demonstrating the capacities of the air crafts and the capacity of the Defence Forces to guarantee the security of...
TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. -- A Marine has been found dead in a barracks room at the Twentynine Palms Marine base. A Marine Corps spokesman says the man was found dead Tuesday at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center. He was assigned to the 1st Marine Division but his identity is being withheld...
Now the Bush administration seems less enthusiastic about nabbing him: last week it cut the reward for al-Masri down to a mere $100,000. Yes, according to both U.S. and Iraqi sources, who base at least some of their information on intel gleaned from captured insurgents. According to American...
Canada's Supreme Court will release a ruling on Friday that could find the U.S. is violating international norms by holding a Canadian former child soldier at Guantanamo Bay for allegedly killing a U.S. soldier with a grenade in a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan.
Auburn head football coach Tommy Tuberville is one of five college football coaches that is participating in a tour visiting military bases throughout the Middle East, May 20-26. The traveling group of 25, which also includes coaches Mark Richt of Georgia, Randy Shannon of Miami (Fla.), Jack...
