Feds: No plans to use overseas statements by Guantanamo defendant; interview sites preserved

October 9th, 2009 Former Guantanamo detainee arrives in BelgiumBRUSSELS — The Belgian government says a former detainee of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay has arrived in the country where he will be granted residency.

October 5th, 2009 Feds: No death penalty for US embassy bomb suspectNEW YORK — The U.S. government has decided not to seek the death penalty against a Guantanamo detainee charged in the 1998 bombings of two U.S.

September 22nd, 2009 Feds tell police to contact self-storage sitesWASHINGTON — Counterterrorism officials are advising police officers to be vigilant for any possible bomb-making at self-storage facilities. The notice, sent by the FBI and Homeland Security Department Monday, recommends police contact storage facilities to encourage employees to report any suspicious behavior.

September 4th, 2009 Belgium to take in 1 former Guantanamo inmateBRUSSELS — The Belgian government says it has accepted a U.S. request to take in one detainee from U.S.

August 26th, 2009 Gitmo judge bars defense from secret CIA prisonsSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Lawyers for a Guantanamo prisoner charged in the Sept. 11 attack do not need to visit secret CIA prisons where he was once held since the sites have likely changed and are no longer relevant, a military judge ruled.

August 10th, 2009 Ga. terrorism defendant to call on family at trialATLANTA —The trial of a 23-year-old man charged with aiding terror groups abroad is expected to continue in Atlanta as the defendant calls relatives to testify in his defense. Ehsanul Islam Sadequee (Sah-DEE-kee) is charged with sending homemade videos of Washington-area landmarks to overseas terrorists.

July 7th, 2009 Defense in Sept. 11 case seeks 'black site' accessSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Lawyers for an alleged Sept.

July 2nd, 2009 Detainee attorney seeks to suppress interrogationsWASHINGTON — Attorneys for a Guantanamo Bay prisoner asked a federal judge Wednesday to exclude as evidence against him the statements he made during at least 57 interrogations since his capture, saying they were the result of torture and other coercion. Because of the detainee's treatment, some of his statements have already been suppressed by a U.S.

July 2nd, 2009 Guantanamo detainee seeks 'black sites' accessNEW YORK — Lawyers for a Guantanamo detainee charged with terrorism crimes have asked the U.S. government to preserve overseas locations where he was subjected to "physical and psychological ill-treatment" at secret CIA prisons known as "black sites" until they can inspect them.

June 12th, 2009 Gitmo detainees sent to Iraq, ChadWASHINGTON — U.S. officials say two more Guantanamo Bay detainees have been released, sent to their home countries of Iraq and Chad.

May 6th, 2009 France says it will take Algerian from GuantanamoPARIS — France says it will take in an Algerian who has been held prisoner by the United States at Guantanamo Bay for the past seven years. Lakhdar Boumediene was arrested along with five other Algerians in 2001 in Bosnia, suspected in a bomb attack plot against the U.S.

April 4th, 2009 BRUSSELS - The US has urged the European Union (EU) to take over some of the detainees who would be freed from its Guantanamo Bay facility, officials said. Information on each of such detainees would be provided, US officials said.

April 2nd, 2009 CAIRO - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said that his country 'would have no problems in receiving' prisoners released from the detention centre for suspected terrorists at the US navy base in Guantanamo, Cuba. 'We wouldn't have any problem receiving a human being,' Chavez said in a phone-in interview program on Qatar-based Al Jazeera television Wednesday.

January 21st, 2009 BRUSSELS - The European Union's top justice official Wednesday welcomed US President Barack Obama's decision to temporarily suspend prosecutions at the country's controversial prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. 'I am extremely pleased that one of the first actions of President Obama has been to turn the page on this sad episode of the Guantanamo prison,' said EU Justice, Freedom and Security Commissioner Jacques Barrot.

January 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US president-elect Barack Obama Sunday said that it is challenging to close down the Guantanamo prison in Cuba soon after his inauguration Jan 20. 'I think it's going to take sometime.