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No, Obama is not trying to shut down his Guantanamo Gulag

Posted on 2015/08/15 - 2015/08/15 by jd

Tariq Ba Odah

‘The administration of President Barack Obama urged a federal judge on Friday not to order the release of a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay who has been on hunger strike for more than eight years and is described by his lawyers as being at risk of imminent death.’
via AP: USA resists immediate release for Guantanamo hunger striker

and…

‘U.S. intelligence and military officials cleared him for release five years ago from the Guantanamo detention center…’
via Reuters: Detainees’ lawyers question Obama commitment to close Guantanamo

https://twitter.com/MazMHussain/status/632383003323428868

Video and photo (above) from Witness Against Torture

Posted in news dumpTagged End of the Republic (USA), Endless War, Islamophobia

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