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...controversial holding center for terrorism suspects, not a week has gone by without a number of former inmates making headlines - and, from the U.S. perspective, for all the wrong reasons. The cases are a virtual Rorschach test of where you stand on the to-close-or-not-to-close-Gitmo debate. (See pictures from inside Guantánamo...
...government had him tortured prior to his transfer to Guantánamo Bay was released and returned to the U.K. on Feb. 23. Ethiopian-born Binyam Mohamed (above) was arrested in Pakistan in 2002. He says he was then sent to Morocco and Afghanistan and tortured before ending up at Gitmo. The British government had been lobbying for Mohamed's release since 2007, and American authorities--who claimed he was planning a dirty-bomb attack on U.S. soil--dropped all charges in October...
...video could hardly have come at a worse time for the Obama Administration, which has just announced that it will close Gitmo within a year and is already being accused by some Republicans of jeopardizing U.S. security. But it is doubly discomfiting for the Saudi government. Officials in Riyadh now say they have rearrested at least nine other men who had previously been rehabilitated; it's not clear how many of those are ex-Gitmo detainees...
...Pentagon says it will not change its policy on repatriating Gitmo detainees to Saudi Arabia. "There are never any absolute guarantees," said Navy spokesman Commander Jeffrey Gordon. "There's an inherent risk in all detainee transfers and releases from Guantánamo...
...doesn't look or feel anything like a prison. TIME's Scott Macleod, who visited the center in fall 2007, says it's akin to a college campus or country club, where the detainees play Ping-Pong and sip Pepsi. It could hardly be more different from Gitmo...