US wants to delay release of CIA, Pentagon documents on detainees until next week

October 10th, 2009 Congress set to act to keep abuse photos hiddenWASHINGTON — Congress is set to allow the Pentagon to keep new pictures of foreign detainees abused by their U.S. captors from the public, a move intended to end a legal fight over the photographs' release that has reached the Supreme Court.

October 1st, 2009 House votes against releasing detainee abuse picsWASHINGTON — The House is backing the Obama administration's refusal to release new photos showing U.S. personnel abusing detainees held overseas.

September 16th, 2009 Delay sought in Guantanamo trialsWASHINGTON — The Obama administration is seeking another two-month delay in a handful of key military commission trials of terrorism detainees, as two key senators said Wednesday they no longer believe Guantanamo Bay inmates will be transferred to Kansas. The previous delay granted in six commission cases ends Thursday.

September 16th, 2009 AP Sources: Delay sought in Gitmo trialsWASHINGTON — The Obama administration is seeking another two-month delay in a handful of key military commission trials of terrorism detainees at Guantanamo Bay. The previous delay granted in six commission cases ends Thursday.

June 13th, 2009 3 Gitmo detainees sent home to Saudi ArabiaWASHINGTON — U.S. officials say three Guantanamo Bay detainees have been sent home to Saudi Arabia.

June 12th, 2009 Obama won't rule out releasing detainees in USWASHINGTON — A White House spokesman says the Obama administration hasn't decided whether or not to release Guantanamo Bay detainees in the United States. Spokesman Robert Gibbs said President Barack Obama has made clear "we're not going to make any decision about transfer or release that threatens the security of this country." Asked if that meant he was ruling out releasing any detainees in the United States, Gibbs said: "I'm not ruling it in or ruling it out." A tentative plan to release some Guantanamo detainees in the United States drew fierce opposition from Republicans and many Democrats in Congress, forcing the Obama administration to shelve the plan to bring some Chinese Muslims known as Uighurs to Virginia.

June 11th, 2009 Beijing demands return of 17 Muslim detaineesBEIJING — Beijing says the 17 Chinese Muslims the United States is sending to Pacific island nation of Palau are terrorists and should be handed back to China instead. Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said Thursday that the United States should "stop handing over terrorist suspects to any third country, so as to expatriate them to China at an early date." Palau President Johnson Toribiong said earlier this week that Palau had agreed to a U.S.

June 5th, 2009 Uighurs urge court to order releaseWASHINGTON — Lawyers for Guantanamo detainees who continue to be held, though they have been cleared for release, urged the Supreme Court on Friday to put teeth into a year-old ruling that allowed the prisoners to challenge their confinement. Lawyers representing a group of Chinese Muslims said federal judges and the Obama administration have rendered the high court's decision worthless, by insisting that judges lack the power to order release of detainees into the United States if no other country will take them.

June 2nd, 2009 Judge holds Bagram detainee casesWASHINGTON — A federal judge has put a hold on his order allowing detainees at a U.S. air base in Afghanistan access to courts until the government can appeal.

May 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - About one in seven of the 534 prisoners released from the Guantanamo Bay dentition center in Cuba, has returned to terrorism or militant activity, an unreleased Pentagon report has claimed. This conclusion could strengthen critics' arguments against the transfer or release of any more detainees as part of President Obama's plan to shut down the facility.

May 9th, 2009 Holder: Administration won't free terroristsWASHINGTON — The Obama administration will not release Guantanamo detainees thought to be terrorists into the United States, Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress Thursday as he sought to reassure worried lawmakers. "We don't have any plans to release terrorists," Holder testified at a Senate hearing on the administration's budget for the Justice Department.

April 23rd, 2009 Holder won't play 'hide and seek' with memosWASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress Thursday he won't play "hide and seek" with secret memos about harsh interrogations of terror suspects and their effectiveness. In testimony before the House Appropriations Committee, Holder said he's willing to release as much information as possible about the interrogations.

April 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is reported to have given its approval to the Central Intelligence Agency to use insects as a method of torture against Guantanamo Bay detainees. The New York Times quotes the Justice Department as saying in a report the methods approved by the Bush administration for extracting information from senior operatives of Al Qaeda in careful detail - like keeping detainees awake for up to 11 straight days, placing them in a dark, cramped box or putting insects into the box to exploit their fears.

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.

January 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Sixty-one detainees once held at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison are believed to have returned to terrorism after being released, the US Defence Department has said. Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said Tuesday intelligence officials have confirmed that 18 have returned to terrorism while 43 are 'suspected of returning to the fight'.