Guantanamo Bay detention camp

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The significance of President Obama’s proposal of closing the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center could not be more delayed from both a moral and justice standpoint. A case in point is that the infamous detention center continues negatively to be seen as an inhumane facility that violated the human rights and lack of due process for detainees. On January 22, 2009, President Obama’s proposal of closing the detention facility in one year showed the slightest of promises to say the least. For example,…

Guantanamo Bay Prison, a controversial topic, where the worst of the worst reside, most uncharged, and are interrogated day in and day out all in an effort to protect the citizens of the United States. The film, The Road to Guantanamo, tells the story of three friends before and during their time in Guantanamo through their own accounts, archival footage, and dramatized re-enactments. Through the use of the witness interviews and the dramatized re-enactments of the real events described, The…

Guantanamo bay is a prison camp built by the United States to hold and interrogate suspected terrorists, extremists and prisoners of war from other countries, with these interrogations we have received valuable information that has helped us prevent and stop terrorist attacks that would have taken many innocent lives, this is why i believe it would be a mistake to shut down guantanamo bay or change the interrogation methods that we have used over the years to gather the valuable information we…

with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. He has been a political lightning rod since he was exchanged in May 2014 in a prisoner swap approved by the White House in which five Taliban officials were released from the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and kept under supervised watch in Qatar. The decision was made by Gen. Robert Abrams, the four-star commander of U.S. Army Forces Command at Fort Bragg, N.C. It came after Bergdahl broke his…

This book is an incredible, first-person story about imprisonment, torture, and life in the secret world of Guantanamo. It is complete with government redaction bars as well as footnotes tying the narrative to declassified documents. Especially interesting are the human relationships formed with guards and interrogators throughout Slahi’s ordeal. Sadly, this tale illustrates the plight of many other Gitmo prisoners. A little of Slahi’s story: he’s from Mauritania and when he was 18 went to…

legislation through Congress . The best example of mutual pressure between the president and the congress is the Guantanamo bay closure argument. In his campaign for the presidency, Obama criticized the Bush administration for its interrogation policies and promised to close the prison at Guantanamo if he were elected. Later in his first year, his administration decided to prosecute some Guantanamo detainees in the federal court system and to hold the trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed in New York…

Release of Guantanamo Bay Prisoners On President Obama’s third day in office he ordered, “The detention facilities at Guantanamo to be closed "as soon as practicable, and no later than one year from the date of this order” (Rath). This event caused a mix of emotions and opinions among United States citizens, which would be case in all of former President Obama’s orders surrounding Guantanamo Bay prisoners. To truly understand Obama’s decisions you must understand the history of Guantanamo Bay…

The enduring value of dystopias lies in its ability to speak to the significant role of individuals as agents of hope and life in a despondent society whose limitations aim to caution the audience of alarming contextual trends. Dystopian literature is a product of dark times and a vehicle for moving its readers to see the differences of an elsewhere and thus think critically about their current world and the issues within it (Baccolini, 2004). Alfonso Cuarón, director of Children of Men (2006),…

end of a Cuban Ak-47 Assault Rifle” (A Few Good Men). Everyday in GTMO, these marines are putting their lives on the line. Santiago needed to realised his perceived laziness could have been disastrous for the entire unit of marines stationed in Guantanamo. Jessup then goes on to say, “off the records, I tell you it is an invaluable part of close infantry training and if it happens without my knowledge so be it”(A Few Good Men). The main purpose of code red was to build character. Based on the…