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By Ahmad Saeid, Staff Writer
Kuwait Times
June 13, 2010
KUWAIT: Lawyers representing the remaining two Kuwaiti detainees being held at the American military base in Guantanamo Bay said that their clients' situations are getting much worse due to the continued conditions imposed by the US administration for their release, and the administration's inclination towards the idea of indefinite detention. The attorneys gave this statement to Kuwait Times during their recent visit to Kuwait.
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By Andy Worthington
Eurasia Review
June 13, 2010
The recently released Final Report of President Obama’s Guantánamo Review Task Force (PDF) was supposed to provide a cogent and definitive analysis of the status of the remaining 181 prisoners, given that it took eleven months to complete, and involved “more than 60 career professionals, including intelligence analysts, law enforcement agents, and attorneys, drawn from the Department of Justice, Department of Defense, Department of State, Department of Homeland Security, Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other agencies within the intelligence community.”
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By James Calderwood, Foreign Correspondent
The National
June 2, 2010
KUWAIT CITY // Within the grounds of the country’s central prison out in the searing heat of the Kuwaiti desert, there is a compound, ringed by locked gates and security guards, with facilities that might seem luxurious to the estimated 4,000 prisoners detained in regular sections of the jail.
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English Summaries of Arabic Articles
May 24, 2010
"Al Rai" reports that MP Dr. Walid Al Tabtabani, head of the Parliamentary Human Rights Committee, hosted two U.S. Attorneys assigned to defend the Kuwaiti detainees Fayiz al-Kandari and Fawzi al-Odah at Guantanamo. During the meeting, discussions focused on encouraging the Kuwaiti and U.S. governments to accelerate the release of the detainees. Since all the requirements and conditions have been met by the Kuwaiti government, Kuwait demands freedom for Fayiz Al Kandari and Fawzi Al-Odah.
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Head-On with Bob Kincaid
May 12, 2010
Interview with Lieutenant Colonel Barry Wingard, USAF, and Lieutenant Commander Kevin Bogucki, JAGC, USN, military lawyers representing Guantanamo Bay detainees.
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Alan Colmes Radio Show
May 4, 2010
Interview with Lieutenant Colonel Barry Wingard, USAF, and Lieutenant Commander Kevin Bogucki, JAGC, USN, military lawyers representing Guantanamo Bay detainees.
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Pacifica Radio (WPFW-FM)
May 4, 2010
Interview with Lieutenant Colonel Barry Wingard, USAF, military lawyer for Fayiz Al-Kandari.
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Blog Talk Radio
April 26, 2010
Interview with Lieutenant Colonel Barry Wingard, USAF, and Lieutenant Commander Kevin Bogucki, JAGC, USN, military lawyers representing Guantanamo Bay detainees.
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Reprinted from Huffington Post (below)
April 5, 2010
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By Lieutenant Colonel Barry Wingard
Huffington Post
March 31, 2010
During his 2008 campaign, President Obama promised the country "change we can believe in." Yet, more than a year into his administration, he has delivered "more of the same" on issues pertaining to Guantanamo Bay. The island prison is still open, detainees still await trials, and officials have recommended the worst of George W. Bush's policies -- indefinite detention.
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By Daniel Malloy, Washington Bureau
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
March 08, 2010
WASHINGTON -- Not much has changed for Fayiz Al-Kandari since Barack Obama became president a little more than a year ago.
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By Lieutenant Colonel Barry Wingard, USAF
TPM
February 16, 2010
As evidenced by the recent outpouring of generous support for the people of Haiti, America remains a caring and compassionate nation. But when it comes to human rights and the rule of law, the United States falls woefully short, trailing behind the rest of the civilized world. Case in point, the U.S. government is seriously considering indefinite detentions for some Guantanamo detainees.
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By James Calderwood, Foreign Correspondent
The National
December 19, 2009
KUWAIT CITY // US military lawyers for a Kuwaiti being held in Guantanamo Bay said that Barack Obama’s plan to relocate some of the remaining detainees to an Illinois prison will impede the defence of their client.
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By Ahmad Saeid, Staff Writer
Kuwait Times
December 16, 2009
KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti government should put in more efforts to secure the release of the remaining two citizens who were captured by US forces shortly after Afghanistan's invasion in 2001. The attorney of a Kuwaiti detainee held at the Guantanamo Bay military spoke to the Kuwait Times on the issue. The Department of Defense Attorney, Barry Wingard, who represents detainee Fayez Al-Kandari said that the judicial process to release Al-Kanderi now faces a dead end after the prosecution 'more than doubled the
number of charges that they want to use against Al-Kanderi only one week prior to the hearing of his case by a federal judge.'
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December 9, 2009
WASHINGTON, DC - The United States today released Fouad Al Rabiah to Kuwait after being held for nearly eight years at Guantanamo Bay. Al Rabiah is an innocent man who was tortured and abused while in U.S. custody.
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By Christopher Flavelle
ProPublica
October 12, 2009
When President Obama took office and ordered the detention center at Guantanamo closed by next January, the biggest challenge was supposed to be the hard cases. Those were the ones in which the detainees were too dangerous to be let go but in which the evidence was insufficient for an American court, or had been obtained through torture, or would endanger national security if it became public. But a case decided last month in a Washington, D.C., federal court shows that for the Obama administration, the far easier cases—in which a judge has ordered a detainee released because there's no evidence he poses a danger—can also be hard.
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By Andy Worthington
September 30, 2009
In four years of researching and writing about Guantánamo, I have become used to uncovering shocking information, but for sheer cynicism, I am struggling to think of anything that compares to the revelations contained in the unclassified ruling in the habeas corpus petition of Fouad Al Rabiah, a Kuwaiti prisoner whose release was ordered last week by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly (PDF). In the ruling, to put it bluntly, it was revealed that the U.S. government tortured an innocent man to extract false confessions and then threatened him until he obligingly repeated those lies as though they were the truth.
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By Carol Rosenberg
The Miami Herald
September 30, 2009
WASHINGTON - A year ago, an Air Force prosecutor swore out charges of conspiracy and providing material support to a terrorist organization against Fouad Al Rabiah, a 50-year-old Kuwaiti aviation engineer who was seized by U.S. forces in Afghanistan nearly eight years ago.
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By Lyle Denniston
SCOTUSBLOG
September 26, 2009
Of the 38 decisions so far by federal judges implementing the Supreme Court’s mandate in Boumediene v. Bush to test the legality of Guantanamo Bay detentions, the most critical assessment of government evidence has just emerged, in Al Rabiah v. U.S. (District Court docket 02-828). Decided on Sept. 17, but just released Friday in an unclassified version, the 65-page ruling by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly is measured in tone but sweeping in impact. Despite heavy deletions, blacking out many details, what remains is a withering denunciation of military and intelligence data.
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By Jeremy Pelofsky
Reuters
September 17, 2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday ordered the Obama administration to release another Kuwaiti detainee held at the controversial U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ordered that Fouad Al Rabiah be released . . .
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By Jeremy Pelofsky
Reuters
August 12, 2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. military lawyer for a Kuwaiti detainee held at the American prison at Guantanamo Bay charged on Wednesday the Obama administration was hampering his efforts to clear his client's name.
Navy Lieutenant Commander Kevin Bogucki said the U.S. State Department would not issue him clearance to travel on Friday to Kuwait, where he planned to hold a news conference outlining the case involving his client, Fouad Al Rabiah.
Al Rabiah was an engineer for Kuwaiti Airlines and has spent seven years at the U.S. detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he stands accused of conspiracy and providing material support to the Taliban and al Qaeda. His military lawyer said the charges were false and that it was a case of mistaken identity.
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By Haviland Smith
The Baltimore Sun
January 25, 2008
America needs to develop a rational policy for dealing with terrorism.
Almost everything we are doing today is counterproductive. Our actions and attitudes create more radical Muslim terrorists and encourage moderate Muslim passivity toward those terrorists and their operations.
Let us accept, for a moment, as true the Bush administration's claim that the techniques and tools that diminish our civil liberties at home and our reputation abroad are worth it because they have stopped terrorist attacks. Even then the argument fails, for such actions represent a tactical response to a strategic threat. They may stop the occasional attack, but they won't address the fundamental issue.
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Cox News Service
January 24, 2008
As chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen has a voice that demands attention on issues regarding the nation's military. And President Bush should heed his advice to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a way of restoring influence and moral authority to the American mission abroad.
The installation became a flash point quickly after the invasion of Afghanistan as the United States began shipping suspects deemed to be the most dangerous to the facility for imprisonment and interrogation. At its height, the inmate population exceeded 600.
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Kuwait News Agency
January 11, 2008
By Eman Al-Awadhi KUWAIT, Jan 11 (KUNA) -- US President George W. Bush has promised to "seriously" take into consideration Kuwait's request for the return of its four citizens held in Guantanamo prison, said Kuwait's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr. Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah on Friday.
"His Highness the Amir brought up the issue of Kuwaitis detained in Guantanamo ... and President Bush promised to take this request into serious consideration and notify us as soon as possible with measures that will be taken in this regard," he told KUNA following a meeting between the two leaders at Dar Salwa.
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