PlusFirst Guantanamo Trial Ends in Split VerdictFirst Guantanamo Trial Ends in Split VerdictThe Associated PressA jury of six U.S. military officers convicted Osama bin Laden's former driver of supporting terrorism but cleared him of conspiracy Wednesday in the first war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay. The jury later reconvened for a sentencing hearing. (Aug. 6)A former driver for Osama Bin Ladin could face life in prison after being convicted of some of the charges against him. A military jury found Salim Hamdan (sah-LEEM' hahm-DAHN') guilty of supporting terrorism. He was cleared of the conspiracy charge. The trial at Guantanamo Bay provided the first demonstration of a special tribunal system for prosecuting alleged terrorists.Hamdan held his head in his hands and wept at the defense table after a Navy captain presiding over the jury read the sentence.(SOT: COMMANDER J.D. GORDON, PENTAGON SPOKESPERSON) "WELL, AS WE'VE SEEN HERE OVER THE PAST FEW WEEKS; MR HAMDAN DID RECEIVE A FULL AND FAIR TRIAL. HE WAS CONVICTED OF MATERIAL SUPPORT TO TERRORISM, FIVE SPECIFICATIONS OUT OF EIGHT THAT HE WAS CHARGED WITH. AND AS WE CAN SEE, THE MILITARY COMMISSION'S PROCESS IS MOVING FORWARD."Defense lawyers had feared a guilty verdict was inevitable. They say the tribunal system's rules seemed designed to achieve convictions.(SOT: MICHAEL BERRIGAN, DEPUTY CHIEF DEFENCE COUNCIL) "THE REAL TRAVESTY ALL OF THIS IS THAT THE OFFENCES FOR WHICH MR HAMDAN WAS FOUND NOT GUILTY TODAY, WERE THE ONLY OFFENCES THAT HE WAS CHARGED WITH INITIALLY, BACK IN 2004, HE WAS ACQUITTED OF ALL OF THOSE. THE ONLY SPECIFICATIONS HE WAS CONVICTED OF ARE OFFENCES THAT WERE ADDED AFTER THE FACT BY THE MILITARY COMMISSIONS ACT 2006, LONG AFTER HE WAS CONFINED HERE AT GUANTANAMO BAY."The military accused Hamdan of transporting missiles for al-Qaida. They also say he helped bin Laden escape U.S. retribution following the Sept. 11 attacks by driving him around Afghanistan. Defense attorneys said he was merely a low-level bin Laden employee. (SOT: BEN WIZNER, STAFF ATTORNEY, ACLU ) "NEVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE LAW OF WAR HAS A MILITARY TRIBUNAL BEEN CONVENED TO PUNISH SUCH A LOW-LEVEL OFFENDER FOR SUCH LOW LEVEL CHARGES." (SOT: MICHAEL RATNER, PRESIDENT OF CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS) "I'M NOT SURPRISED BY THE VERDICT OF GUILT BECAUSE THIS WAS A HAND-PICKED JURY WITH UNFAIR RULES OF EVIDENCE, COERCED EVIDENCE AND UNFAIR CHARGES AND TRIED IN AN ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH BASICALLY SECRECY WAS THE HALLMARK. THIS IS NOT A TRIAL THAT REALLY COMPORTS WITH MY NOTIONS OR EVEN THE CONSTITUTION'S NOTIONS OF DUE PROCESS." ___ ___, The Associated Press.

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PlusSplit Verdict in First Guantanamo TrialSplit Verdict in First Guantanamo TrialThe Associated PressA jury of six military officers at Guantanamo Bay has reached a split verdict in the war crimes trial of a former driver for Osama bin Laden. (Aug. 06)A former driver for Osama Bin Ladin could face life in prison after being convicted of some of the charges against him. A military jury found Salim Hamdan (sah-LEEM' hahm-DAHN') guilty of supporting terrorism. He was cleared of the conspiracy charge. The trial at Guantanamo Bay provided the first demonstration of a special tribunal system for prosecuting alleged terrorists.Hamdan held his head in his hands and wept at the defense table after a Navy captain presiding over the jury read the sentence.Defense lawyers had feared a guilty verdict was inevitable. They say the tribunal system's rules seemed designed to achieve convictions.The military accused Hamdan of transporting missiles for al-Qaida. They also say he helped bin Laden escape U.S. retribution following the Sept. 11 attacks by driving him around Afghanistan. Defense attorneys said he was merely a low-level bin Laden employee.The judge scheduled a sentencing hearing for later today. ___ ___, The Associated Press.

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outlandish's video for Guantanamo.

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Purpose made, and hopefully hard hitting, video for REFUSE/ALL's title track from their debut album

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June 2003 America has been accused of gross human rights violations for its policies at Guantanamo Bay. We gain unprecedented access to this controversial camp.

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Adel Hamad, husband and father, aid worker and teacher, has been detained at Guantanamo Bay since 2003.

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5 LANGUAGES, 1 SONG, LETS UNITE OUR VOICES TO STOP THE TERROR. LET'S UNITE OUR VOICES TO STOP THAT MADNESS. Πάμε παρέα, αδερφέ μου, μη κάνεις κράτη. Το έχω άχτι να περάσω απ' τον συρμάτινο φράκτη και τον ήλιο να θαμπώσω για λίγο, να μη μας πάρουν χαμπάρι όσο θ' ανοίγω και θα πνίγω στης γης τα ρήγματα, τα πιο όμορφα κρίματα, ζωής θελήματα, της φτώχειας γεννήματα, μονάκριβα ποιήματα και δίπλα στα θύματα η παρέα μου ίχνη αφήνει, και πατήματα Πάμε... Υο! Noi non vogliamo Bush, il figlio di papa. Non vogliamo questa guerra che e contro l'umanita. Noi prenderemo il sole, il sole e la liberta, sulla spiaggia di Guantanamo il vento ci portera. Τρομάξτε τους ήδη φοβισμένους δεσμώτες με λόγια και νότες κι οι ατσάλινες πόρτες ραγίζουν κι οι ταπεινοί τα ουράνια αγγίζουν, δυο πύρινα μάτια και πύργους γκρεμίζουν. Πάμε... A Guantanamo in gabbia c' e anche gente innocente, gente presa a caso che non c' entra niente. Dove sono i processi? Le prove? I diritti? Noi non stiamo zitti, non stiamo zitti. Falso, falso, falso, falso grande capo, sei un capo solo col fucile puntato. Non ti rispetta piu nessuno ormai nel mondo. Guantanamo e la guerra non nascondono il tramonto. Noi non vogliamo Bush e faraoni pr**atori, petrolieri ricoperti di rubini e ori. Noi non vogliamo Bush che coltiva il terrore - ultima spiaggia e speranza per restare al potere. Schiacciati in fondo al mondo come sardine eppure ancora vedi che l'umanita combatte e vive. Questo canto vola, oltre oceani e colline dove un nuovo mondo sorge e per voi c' e scritto: "Fine". Lets wonder, lets fly, lets find us in Guantanamo and free the fire. Πάμε σαν διψασμένα πουλιά μέχρι το Γκουαντανάμο να πάρουμε τη φωτιά How can we free the prisoners of war, from indefinite detention down in Cuba? I feel sorry for the innocent ones who suffer, so we dedicate this one to all world leader. If you live in a glass house, don't throw stones. What gives you the right to invade people's homes? Terrorism is something that we can't condone, but there is more than one reason why the towers came down. Πάμε σαν διψασμένα πουλιά μέχρι το Γκουαντανάμο να πάρουμε τη φωτιά Vamos aser lo imposible por una vez mas como embieja saga con un tripulacion puro la roja armada que viene de los sinquo orizontes del mundo. Curagaro deada da aqua y ensima las barreras enr**al istorias nosostros quon allas de barro y las palabras ammos libertaremos el fuego en Guantanamo. Je repense aux images des prisons de Guantanamo Des hommes dans des cages, traites comme des animaux En detention ... loin de Geneve et ses conventions Certains sont innocents de toutes ces accusations Faire subir aux autres ce qu'on n'aime pas subir C'est comme ca qu'ils poussent les terroristes a agir Je dis Attention !!! Car je sens monter la tension Ces provocations auront de graves repercussions Nos dirigeants passent leur temps a semer le vent Quand vient la tempete, les tours tombent en miettes Et qui ramassent les pots casses? C'est malheureusement Nous ... toujours nous ... encore nous ... les innocents Πάμε, φώναξε σ' όλους πως πάμε, μιλάμε, αγαπάμε, νοιώθουμε και τα δεσμά τους σπάμε. Ανταμώνουμε και σ' άλλη γλώσσα μιλάμε, στου ονείρου την άκρη περνάμε. Noi non vogliamo Bush, il figlio di papa. Non vogliamo questa guerra che e contro l'umanita. Noi prenderemo il sole, il sole e la liberta, sulla spiaggia di Guantanamo il vento ci portera. Non stiamo zitti... Noi non vogliamo Bush... Lets wonder, lets fly, lets find us in Guantanamo and free the fire. Πάμε σαν διψασμένα πουλιά μέχρι το Γκουαντανάμο να πάρουμε τη φωτιά. Vamos como pajaros del fuego en Guantanamo, libertaramos el fuego Des oiseaux ... volent vers les terres De Guantanamo ... l'ile de l'enfer Πάμε σαν διψασμένα πουλιά μέχρι το Γκουαντανάμο να πάρουμε τη φωτιά. Lets wonder, lets fly, lets find us in Guantanamo and free the fire.

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Over 300 men and women are still at the US military run detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, most of them never charged of any crime...they are enemy combatants in the war on terror. January 11, 2008 marks the six-year anniversary of the arrival of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay. Draxtor Despres visited the virtual detention center in SL and felt how it is to be utterly hopeless!

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harold and kumar escape from guantanamo bay greenband trailer

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This live music reggae video "Guantanamo" in roots style by Ras Nas was recorded live at NRK P2 (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) on 18th April 2007. The song "Guantanamo" is one of the tracks in the upcoming Ras Nas CD "Dar-es-Salaam". Ras Nas is a musician and poet from Tanzania who blends reggae, dub poetry and African music. "Guantanamo" appears in Ras Nas forthcoming album "Dar-es-Salaam". The CD contains reggae and African music.

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Lawyers for a Canadian prisoner held at Guantanamo Bay have released a videotape showing him being interrogated. The pictures offer the first glimpse inside the secretive and isolated US prison in Cuba. In the video, a Canadian Security Intelligence Services agent is shown grilling Omar Khadr in 2003, when he was 15. The video shows him weeping, his face buried in his hands. Khadr also tells his captors he's been tortured. The Canadian citizen is accused of throwing a grenade that killed a US soldier during a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan. Al Jazeera's Dan Nolan tells the story.

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Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay

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The Lighter Side of Torture. Brought to you by First Church Of Christ, Filmmaker.

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The Road to Guantanamo Trailer Green-Band Winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO is the terrifying first-hand account of three British citizens who were held for two years without charges in the American military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Known as the "Tipton Three", in reference to their home town in Britain, the three were eventually returned to Britain & released, still having had no formal charges ever made against them at any time during their ordeal. The film has already engendered significant controversy due to its critical stance towards the American & British governments. Part documentary, part dramatization, the film chronicles the sequence of events that led from the trio setting out from Tipton in the British Midlands for a wedding in Pakistan, to their crossing the Afghanistan border just as the U.S. began their invasion, to their eventual capture by the Northern Alliance & their imprisonment in Camp X-Ray & later at Camp Delta in Guantanamo. Source http://RoadToGuantanamoMovie.Com *** - CAMP DELTA - Camp Delta, situated at 19°54′09″N, 75°05′57″W, composed of detention camps 1, 2, 3, 4, & Camp Echo, is a permanent 612-unit detention centre at Guantanamo Bay that replaced the temporary facilities of Camp X-Ray. It was built between February 27 & mid-April 2002 by Navy Seabees, Marine Engineers, & workers from Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root. Most of the security force are U.S. Army military police, & U.S. Navy Masters-at-Arms. Detainees are first sent to Camp 3, the maximum security camp. Detainees who cooperate with their guards are moved to Camp 2, then, after more co-operation, to Camp 1. Prisoners who are considered to show no security risk & cooperate with interrogators are moved to Camp 4. Camp 4 buildings have a shower & lavatory, plus four communal living rooms for 10 detainees each. Each detainee has a bed and a locker for items such as diaries & books. Camp 4 has small, common recreational areas for playing board games and team sports. Detainees at Camp 4 share communal meals, & wear white instead of orange. - CAMP X-RAY - Camp X-Ray was a temporary detention facility located at the Joint Task Force Guantanamo on the U.S. Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. It was named Camp X-Ray because various temporary camps in the station were named sequentially from the beginning & then from the end of the NATO phonetic alphabet. The legal status of detainees at the camp has been a significant source of controversy, ultimately reaching the United States Supreme Court. Source http://WikiPedia.Org

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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/07/15/khadr-tapes.html A teenage Omar Khadr sobs uncontrollably as Canadian spy agents question him at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in a brief video excerpt released via the internet early Tuesday morning. The 10-minute video posted just after 5 a.m. ET is of poor quality and the voices are often inaudible, as it was never intended to be viewed by the public. But it shows Khadr, 16 at the time, being interviewed by Canadian officials in late February 2003. The excerpt is from five formerly classified DVDs consisting of 7.5 hours of questioning, six months after Khadr was captured following a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan. The tapes, made public under a court order obtained by Khadr's lawyers, offer a rare glimpse of interrogations of Guantanamo detainees and of Khadr. Khadr, now 21, has been held at the military prison for the past six years. Shows interrogator wounds At one point during one of the interviews, Khadr raises his orange shirt to show wounds on his back and stomach that he says he sustained during the firefight. "I'm not a doctor, but I think you're getting good medical care," the interrogator responds. Khadr cries, "I lost my eyes. I lost my feet. Everything!" in reference to how the firefight in Afghanistan affected his vision. "No, you still have your eyes and your feet are still at the end of your legs, you know," a man says. Between gasping sobs, Khadr tells the agent several times, "You don't care about me." As Khadr continues crying, the agent calls for a break. 'Help me,' Khadr chants "Look, I want to take a few minutes. I want you to get yourself together. Relax a bit. Have a bite to eat and we'll start again," the interrogator says. Then Khadr begins sobbing with his head in both his hands, chanting over and over again in a haunting voice: "Help me ... Help me ... Help me." In the next interview excerpt, Khadr sits on a blue couch looking down as he is questioned. He mumbles short answers and declines an offer of food. The interrogator asks him a string of innocuous questions to try to warm him up. "I want to stay in Cuba with you. Can you help me with that?" he says, commenting on how nice the weather is in the country. He later asks, "What other interesting things do you want to tell me about?" Khadr's response cannot be heard. Sessions videotaped by U.S. agents The U.S. Defence Department granted special permission to CSIS and Canada's Foreign Affairs ministry to question Khadr after he was brought to Guantanamo Bay, where he is still being held on charges he killed a U.S. soldier during a firefight in Afghanistan. Michel Juneau-Katsuya, a former CSIS agent, told CBC that the unprecedented release of the interrogation tapes is likely to put a damper on Canada's relationship with the U.S. — at least in the short term. "Anybody can logically sort of assume that the Americans will be a little bit more cautious about what they give to us or or in the context they give it to us, the Canadian authorities," he said Monday. In May, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that branches of the Canadian government had to hand over key evidence against Khadr to his legal team to allow a full defence of the charges against him, which include accusations by the U.S. that he spied for and provided material support to terrorists. Several Canadian media organizations then applied for and obtained the release of the DVDs, as well as a package of documents that made headlines last week. Disc copies of the 5-DVD collection were to be made available to the media at 1 p.m. ET at the lawyers' offices in Edmonton.

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A video of a 16-year-old detainee being questioned at the US's Guantanamo Bay prison camp is made public for the first time. The video was filmed secretly through an air duct. (Read full Story and find the transcript at http://davron.wordpress.com ) It shows 16-year-old Omar Khadr being asked by Canadian officials in 2003 about events leading up to his capture by US forces, Canadian media have said. The Canadian citizen is accused of throwing a grenade that killed a US soldier in Afghanistan in 2002. He is seen in a distressed state and complaining that he has been tortured. The footage was made public by Mr Khadr's lawyers following a Supreme Court ruling in May that the Canadian authorities had to hand over key evidence against him to allow a full defence of the charges he is facing. 'Help me' During the 10-minute video - filmed secretly through a ventilation shaft - Mr Khadr can be seen crying, his face buried in his hands, and pulling at his hair. He can be heard repeatedly chanting: "Help me." At one point he tells the foreign ministry official and agents from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) that he was tortured while being held at the US military detention centre at Bagram air base in Afghanistan. He raises his orange shirt to show wounds and tells them: "You don't care about me." Later, one of the officials tells Mr Khadr: "You know I'm not a doctor, but I think you're getting good medical care." Mr Khadr was 15 when he was captured by US forces during a gun battle at a suspected al-Qaeda camp in Afghanistan. One of Mr Khadr's lawyers, Dennis Edney, said they hoped the video would cause an outcry in Canada and pressure Prime Minister Stephen Harper to demand the US not prosecute their client. "I hope Canadians will be outraged to see the callous and disgraceful treatment of a Canadian youth," Mr Edney told the Toronto Star. "Canadians should demand to know why they've been lied to." Mr Harper reiterated last week that he would not interfere in Mr Khadr's military tribunal, due to begin at Guantanamo on 8 October. Mr Khadr, now 21, faces multiple terrorism-related charges, the most serious of which is murder. He faces up to life in prison if convicted. BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7507216.stm

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Adel Hamad, husband and father, aid worker and teacher, continues to be detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, despite efforts to clear his name and return him to his family in Sudan

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The Al Jazeera cameraman describes how he was treated during the seven years he was detained at the US detention center in Cuba.

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Martin Mubanga, who was imprisoned alongside Sami al-Hajj, tells Al Jazeera about their time in captivity.

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The Divine Comedy's (still unofficially released) song, set to photographic evidence from the archives.

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A teenage Omar Khadr sobs uncontrollably as Canadian spy agents question him at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in a brief video excerpt released via the internet early Tuesday morning. The 10-minute video posted just after 5 a.m. ET is of poor quality and the voices are often inaudible, as it was never intended to be viewed by the public. But it shows the Toronto-born Khadr, 16 at the time, being interviewed by Canadian Security Intelligence Service officials in late February 2003. The excerpt is from five formerly classified DVDs consisting of 7½ hours of questioning that took place six months after Khadr was captured following a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan. The tapes, made public under a court order obtained by Khadr's lawyers, offer a rare glimpse of interrogations of Guantanamo detainees and of Khadr. Khadr, now 21, has been held at the military prison for the past six years. more info: ........................... http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/07/15/khadr-tapes.html

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Deutschlands Bündispartner die USA betreiben weltweit über 10 Konzentrationslager in welchen nachweislich grausamste Foltermethoden, Demütigung und Erniedrigung vorherrschen. Das politische Establishment und die Massenmedien müssen sich darüber in Schweigen und Ignoranz hüllen. "Volkskanzerlin" Merkel und Konsorten genehmigten US-Gefangenentransportern sogar Überfluge in die Lager. Aufgabe der Lager ist es politische Gegner (sog. "Terroristen") "heranzuzüchten" und zu Anschlägen zu motivieren, um daraufhin mehr Überwachungs- und Kontrollmaßnahmen gegen die eigene Bevölkerung der Industriestaaten durchzusetzen. Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble wörtlich am 01.12.2007: "Diejenigen die sagen Guantanamo ist nicht die richtige Lösung, müssen bereit sein darüber nachzudenken was eine bessere Lösung ist."

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"The Road to Guantánamo" trailer

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Guantanamo-Dj Kitoko feat Pit Bacardi

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Concerto da Orquestra Juvenil da Sociedade Recreio Lajense.

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