Officials: Top Taliban Leader Was at Gitmo

Mullah Abdullah Zakir is the Taliban leader in charge of operations in southern Afghanistan, the central front in the growing nationwide insurgency. But anonymous officials told the Associated Press today that the Mullah has a very interesting backstory. He got his...

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The Guantánamo Challenge

Even if President Obama's order to close the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay will have at best a superficial effect on America's detention program, the news of its eventual closure was greeted by a worldwide expression of relief. In another year, one of America's most...

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Obama Drafts Order to Close Gitmo

President Obama will reportedly sign a new executive order calling for the detention center at Guantanamo Bay to be closed within a year, and will also halt the war crimes trials in the meantime. It remains unclear when he will sign the draft, however. The draft says...

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