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Death from Afar: The Unaccountable Killing of Anwar Al-Awlaki
What a strange and alarming place we’re in, when the US government, under a Democratic President, kills two US citizens it dislikes for their thoughts and their words, without formally charging them...
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Obama vs. Congress: The Struggle to Close Guantánamo, and to Prevent the...
It’s a sign of how skewed America is today that assassinating the world’s most wanted terrorist (Osama bin Laden), assassinating an American citizen working in Yemen as an anti-American propagandist...
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A Tired Obsession with Military Detention Plagues American Politics
Before the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, there were only two ways of holding prisoners — either they were prisoners of war, protected by the Geneva Conventions, or they were criminal...
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The Guantánamo Files: An Archive of Articles — Part Eleven, October to...
Please support my work! Since March 2006, I have been researching and writing about Guantánamo and the 779 men (and boys) held there, first through my book The Guantánamo Files, and, since May 2007,...
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“Brought to Justice? — The Indefinite Detention and Targeted Killing of the...
Last month, when I was in the US to campaign for the closure of Guantánamo on the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Bush administration’s “war on terror” prison, I paid a visit, during my 30-hour...
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Families of US Citizens Killed in Drone Attacks in Yemen Take Obama Officials...
Yesterday, in New York, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit (PDF) accusing US defense secretary Leon Panetta, CIA director David...
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“Dirty Wars”: An Immensely Powerful Anti-War Film, Uncovering Obama’s Global...
On May 13, I was privileged to be invited to a London preview of “Dirty Wars,” the new documentary film, directed by Richard Rowley and focusing on the journalist Jeremy Scahill’s investigations into...
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Life Sentence for Sulaiman Abu Ghaith Discredits Guantánamo’s Military...
On Tuesday, in a courtroom in New York City, a long-running chapter in the “war on terror” came to an end, when Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, 48, a Kuwaiti-born cleric who appeared in media broadcasts as a...
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Donald Trump, Guantánamo and Torture: What Do We Need to Know?
I wrote the following article (as “Donald Trump and Guantánamo: What Do We Need to Know?) for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012, on the 10th anniversary of the opening...
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Radio: Andy Worthington Discusses Donald Trump and Guantánamo with Brian...
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