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Ayotte presses Obama for answers on Guantanamo releases

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen Kelly Ayotte is calling on President Barack Obama to "tell the truth" about terrorist detainees who have "reportedly killed Americans and our allies" after being released from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. Guantanamo has been a frequent subject for Ayotte,

Barack Obama

Saudi threat over 9/11 bill spurs uproar on eve of Obama visit

WASHINGTON – Ahead of President Barack Obama's jaunt to Saudi Arabia this week, the Persian Gulf nation laid down a threat last week. The Arab kingdom demanded the defeat a bipartisan bill pending in Congress that would let families of Sept. 11 victims sue the government in Riyadh over

Democrats

Ayotte sharpens attacks on Obama over Guantanamo detainees

WASHINGTON – New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte is ramping up her criticism of President Barack Obama's decision to release radical Islamic terror suspects from the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, proposing a ban on the transfer of detainees to prisons on American soil as well as

Barack Obama

Obama outlines plan to move terrorists from Gitmo to US prisons

(CNSNews.com) – "I am very clear-eyed about the hurdles to finally closing Guantanamo," President Barack Obama told the nation on Tuesday, as he submitted his plan to shutter the military prison in Cuba. One of those hurdles is a law barring the transfer of Gitmo detainees to U.

Russia

Syria mass executions documented by U.N. investigators

GENEVA (AP) — International investigators say several thousands of detainees have been executed, beaten to death or otherwise left to die during Syria's civil war, in policies that appear to amount to extermination under international law. The U.N.-backed Commission of Inquiry on Syria presented a 25-page report

terrorism

First of 17 detainees to be released from Gitmo next week

WASHINGTON (AP) — The first of 17 detainees scheduled to be released from the Guantanamo Bay prison in January will be transferred next week, as the Obama administration continues to reduce the population at the controversial detention center, a senior U.S. official said Monday. Another three detainees are slated to

terrorism

Bin Laden henchman rejoins al-Qaeda after Guantanamo release

WASHINGTON – At least one released Guantanamo Bay detainee has returned to a leadership role with al-Qaeda, as a member of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, according to a website that focuses on the global war against Islamic extremists. The man was once one of Osama bin Laden's personal

President Barack Obama

Critics: Changing Guantanamo prison’s ZIP code isn’t a fix

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's quest to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, perhaps by moving some detainees to the United States, has fostered an unusual alliance between his congressional critics and liberal-leaning advocacy groups that say changing the detention facility's ZIP code won't