President Obama ordered the detention facility at Guantanamo closed within a year. Prior to the announcement a terrorist known as Said Ali al-Shihri who was released after spending six years inside the U.S. prison camp and is now the number 2 of Yemen's al-Qaeda branch according to a purported internet terror network statement. Although al-Shiri was released in Nov. 2007 and transferred to his homeland, he ended up in Yemen and is now reported to be working for al-Qaeda again. ...more

February 15, 2009

The best way to sanely experience the tunnel of an MRI machine is to keep your eyes closed. I did that for the longest time before curiosity got the best of me. I opened them for an instant, freaked out and shut them again quickly. The white wall of the machine seemed 2 inches from my face, even though it wasn't really that close. ...more

June 21, 2008

A Kuwaiti freed from Guantanamo Bay carried out a suicide car bombing recently in Iraq, the U.S. military said Wednesday, confirming what is believed to be the first such attack by a former detainee at the U.S. military detention center in Cuba. ...more

May 8, 2008

Over the past seven years, an imposing building on the outskirts of this city has served as a secret holding cell for the CIA. ...more

December 1, 2007

TAMPA - The Jamaican detainee had been in a federal facility for three months when she was put in the custody of Immigration Enforcement Agent Wilfredo Vazquez. ...more

November 19, 2007

TAMPA - A former immigration agent employed at MacDill Air Force Base was arrested in Tampa Friday night in connection with the rape of a 39-year-old Jamaican detainee, according to records and published reports. Wilfredo Vazquez, 35, is accused of sexually assaulting the mother of two at his Tamarac home, in Broward County, on Sept. 21, the Miami Herald reported in today's edition, citing a criminal complaint filed Friday in Miami federal court. ...more

November 17, 2007

The U.S. military reported the deaths of nine soldiers Monday - including seven killed in a vehicle accident - and Iraq's prime minister said the nation's armed forces are not ready to fight without American help. ...more

September 11, 2007