Sejarah Guantanamo -

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penjara guantanamo bakal ditutup in less than a year rasanya -

macam2 cerita tentang guantanamo ni -- nanti kita share sama2

ni ada few tentang tu -

* btw malaysian ada 2 orang di guantanamo... belum lepas lagi --
masih berada di sana -

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Cerita bekas tahanan Guantanamo



GAMBAR fail 18 November 2008 menunjukkan tahanan
di penjara Teluk Guantanamo milik Amerika Syarikat di Cuba.



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LONDON - Tahanan penjara Gunatanamo yang pertama dibebaskan, Binyam Mohamed mendedahkan agensi perisikan Britain MI6 bersekongkol dengan Amerika Syarikat (AS) untuk menderanya, lapor sebuah akhbar semalam.

Binyam yang ditahan tanpa dibicarakan selama tujuh tahun oleh Agensi Perisikan Pusat AS (CIA) berkata, dia didera mulai pertengahan 2004 selama 18 bulan di Maghribi.

Dalam satu dokumen mahkamah, MI6 dipercayai memberi maklumat terperinci mengenai soalan yang perlu ditanya kepada para penyiasat CIA terhadap dakwaan pembabitan Binyam dalam pergerakan pengganas.

Dia yang baru dibebaskan pada bulan lalu menyatakan penderaan di Maghribi dilakukan oleh seorang lelaki yang dikenalinya sebagai Marwan.

Katanya, soal siasat dilakukan dalam sel yang gelap gelita.

"Tandas di dalam jel itu hanyalah sebuah baldi. Ia juga dilengkapi pembesar suara yang mengeluarkan bunyi bising sepanjang masa tanpa henti. Mereka memainkan muzik Eminem Show selama sebulan," katanya.

Menurut Binyam, dia sentiasa dirantai sama ada di tangan, kaki atau pinggang.

"Saya tidak boleh tidur dan tidak tahu siang atau malam. Saya dibenarkan mandi sekali dalam seminggu," katanya ketika menceritakan penderitaannya ketika ditahan di penjara Kabul.

Binyam, 30, kini tinggal bersama kakaknya di sebuah kawasan perkampungan setelah dibebaskan pada akhir bulan lalu.

Pembebasannya adalah kerana keputusan Presiden AS, Barack Obama yang mengarahkan penjara tersebut ditutup dalam tempoh setahun.

Taktik kotor MI6 itu ketika dia dipindahkan di sebuah penjara di Pakistan adalah untuk memaksanya mengaku terhadap plot fantasi bahawa dia merancang untuk meletupkan sebuah bom radioaktif di New York.

Binyam ketika ditemu bual masih kelihatan kurus kering tetapi sudah boleh tersenyum.

Katanya, kebanyakan kecederaan fizikal sudah pulih namun kesan trauma masih segar.

"Penderaan itu menyebabkan jiwa saya mati. Anda boleh lakukan apa sahaja tetapi saya tidak boleh merasai (penderitaan) itu lagi," katanya,

Warga Habsyah itu merupakan penduduk tetap Britain setelah dia tiba London pada 1994 berikutan rampasan kuasa di negara asalnya.

Dia turut berikrar akan melakukan apa sahaja bagi membolehkan tahanan keluar dari penjara Teluk Guantanamo, milik tentera AS di Cuba. - Agensi

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Guant醤amo Bay

Guant醤amo Bay (Spanish: Bah韆 de Guant醤amo) is a bay located in Guant醤amo Province at the southeastern end of Cuba ([url=http://stable.toolserver.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Guant%C3%A1namo_Bay&params=19_54_N_75_9_W_]19

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History




Map of Cuba with the location of Guant醤amo Bay indicated

The bay is located in Cuba and was originally named Guant醤amo by the Ta韓o. Christopher Columbus landed at the location known as Fisherman's Point in 1494 naming it Puerto Grande.On landing, Columbus's crew found Ta韓o fishermen preparing a feast for the local chieftain. When Spanish settlers took control of the island, the bay became a vital harbor on the south side of the island. The bay was briefly renamed Cumberland Bay when the British seized it in 1741 during the War of Jenkins' Ear. British Admiral Edward Vernon arrived with a force of eight warships and 4,000 soldiers with plans to march on Santiago de Cuba but was resisted by local guerrilla forces and withdrew.
During the Spanish-American War, the U.S. fleet attacking Santiago needed shelter from the summer hurricane season; Guant醤amo with its excellent harbor was chosen for this purpose. The Marines landed successfully with naval support; however, as they went inland, Spanish resistance increased to the point at which Cuban scouts were needed to assist the United States Marines.
The U.S. Guant醤amo Bay Naval Base, sometimes called "GTMO" or "Gitmo", covers 116 km

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Timeline of Guant醤amo Bay

Timeline

• 30 April 1494

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In addition to two presidents, many other distinguished people have visited the Naval Base. At one time General John J. Pershing was a visitor on board USS Utah. Charles A. Lindbergh was a visitor during his goodwill flight around the Americas in the "Spirit of St. Louis". Before and during the World War II years, visitors included members of Congress, Cabinet officers, ambassadors, Harry Hopkins, Eleanor Roosevelt, and others.

Other important visitors the base have included: U. S. Ambassador Robert Butler (from Havana), 21-22 December 1950; Admiral and Mrs. Forrest P. Sherman, 31 December 1950-1 January 1951; Vice Admiral R. V. Symonds-Tayler, RN, 8-15 January 1951; Carlos Hevia, former President of Cuba and Cuban Minister without portfolio (graduate of U. S. Naval Academy, class of 1920) 19 October 1951; U. S. Ambassador and Mrs. Howard Travers (from Haiti), 4 December 1951 and on two occasions subsequently; Peruvian Minister of Marine Roque A. Saldias, 20-22 May 1952; Cuban Minister of National Defense Nicolas Perez Hernandez, 17 June 1952; U. S. Ambassador and Mrs. Willard L. Beaulac (from Havana) 19-20 June 1952; the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral W. M. Fechteler, 18 December 1952.

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Guantanamo Bay Naval Base




Satellite view of Guant醤amo Bay





Map of Guant醤amo Bay showing approximate U.S. Naval Boundaries




Guantanamo Bay Naval Base is located on the shore of Guant醤amo Bay at the southeastern end of Cuba and has been used by the United States Navy for more than a century. It is the oldest overseas U.S. Navy Base, and the only one in a country with which the United States does not have diplomatic relations.
The Cuban government opposes the presence of the naval base, claiming that the lease is invalid under international law. The US government claims that the lease is valid.
Since 2002, the naval base has contained a military prison, the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, for persons alleged to be enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan and later in Iraq. These are combatants who are not protected by the Geneva Conventions for various reasons. Examples of unlawful combatants, inferred from the Geneva Conventions and recognized in Case Law, include are those who are not members of the armed forces of a party state, those who do not wear military uniforms or do not carry their arms openly, and those who resume hostilities after being paroled. The Geneva Conventions explicitly state that these unlawful combatants shall be prosecuted according to the laws of the Occupying power. Therefore, only US law applies to these unlawful combatants held at Guantanamo.
In the United States there are two major Supreme Court cases dealing with these prisoners. The first, Ex parte Quirin, 317 U.S. 1 (1942), is a Supreme Court of the United States case that upheld the jurisdiction of a United States military tribunal over the trial of several Operation Pastorius German saboteurs in the United States. Quirin has been cited as a precedent for the trial by military commission of any unlawful combatant against the United States:

揫/td][td]卼he law of war draws a distinction between the armed forces and the peaceful populations of belligerent nations and also between those who are lawful and unlawful combatants. Lawful combatants are subject to capture and detention as prisoners of war by opposing military forces. Unlawful combatants are likewise subject to capture and detention, but in addition they are subject to trial and punishment by military tribunals for acts which render their belligerency unlawful.

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The second case, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507 (2004) was a U.S. Supreme Court decision reversing the dismissal of a habeas corpus petition brought on behalf of Yaser Esam Hamdi, a U.S. citizen being detained indefinitely as an "illegal enemy combatant". The Court recognized the power of the government to detain unlawful combatants, but ruled that detainees who are U.S. citizens must have the ability to challenge their detention before an impartial judge.

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Map of Cuba with location of Guant醤amo Bay indicated

The bay was originally called Guant醤amo by Christopher Columbus, who landed at the location known as Fisherman's Point in 1494. The bay was briefly renamed Cumberland Bay when the British took it in the first part of the 18th century during the War of Jenkins' Ear. In 1790, the British garrison at Cumberland died of fever as had a previous British force,before they could attack Santiago by land.
During the Spanish-American War, the U.S. fleet attacking Santiago retreated to Guant醤amo's excellent harbor to ride out the summer hurricane season of 1898. The Marines landed with naval support, requiring Cuban scouts to push off Spanish resistance that increased as they moved inland. This area became the location of U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, which covers about 45 square miles (116 km

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Until the 1953-59 revolution, thousands of Cubans commuted daily from outside the base to jobs within. In mid-1958, vehicular traffic was stopped; workers were required to walk through the base's several gates. Public Works Center buses were pressed into service almost overnight to carry the tides of workers to and from the gate.[5] By 2006, only two elderly Cubans still crossed the base's North East Gate daily to work on the base; this is because the Cuban government prohibits new recruitment.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the families of military personnel were evacuated from the base. Notified of the evacuation on October 22, evacuees were told to pack one suitcase per family member, to bring evacuation and immunization cards, to tie pets in the yard, to leave the keys to the house on the dining table, and to wait in front of the house for buses.[6] Dependents traveled to the airfield for flights to the United States, or to ports for passage aboard evacuation ships. After the crisis was resolved, family members were allowed to return to the base in December 1964.

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Since 1939, the base's water had been supplied by pipelines that drew water from the Yateras River about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) northeast of the base. The U.S. government paid a fee for this; in 1964, it was about $14,000 a month for about two and a half million U.S. gallons (10 million L) per day. In 1964, the Cuban government stopped the flow. The base had about 14 million gallons water in storage, and strict water conservation was put into effect immediately. The U.S. first imported water from Jamaica via barges, then relocated a desalination plant from San Diego, California (Point Loma).[7] When the Cuban government accused the United States of stealing water, base commander John D. Bulkeley ordered that the pipelines be cut and a section removed. A 38-inch (964 mm) length of the 14-inch (355 mm) diameter pipe and a 20-inch (508 mm) length of the 10-inch (254 mm) diameter pipe were lifted from the ground and the openings sealed.


An aerial view of the naval base with the Navy Exchange and McDonalds at left and an outdoor movie theater at bottom rightWith over 9,500 U.S. sailors and Marines,[8] Guantanamo Bay is the only U.S. base in operation in a Communist led country.

"Gitmo" has a U.S. amateur radio call sign series, KG4 followed by two letters.[9] This is completely distinct from Cuban radio callsigns, which typically begin with CL, CM, CO, or T4.[10]. For "ham" purposes it is considered to be a separate "entity." This position is not recognized by Cuba's amateur radio society[citation needed].

Notable persons born at the naval base include actor Peter Bergman and American-British guitarist Isaac Guillory.

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In 2005, the Navy completed a $12 million wind project, erecting four wind turbines capable of supplying about a quarter of the base's peak power needs, reducing diesel fuel usage and pollution from the existing diesel generators.[11]


Two of the wind turbines installed by the Navy in 2005On January 22, 2009, President Obama signed executive orders directing the Central Intelligence Agency to shut what remains of its network of secret prisons and ordering the closing of the Guant醤amo detention camp within a year. However, as he reversed the most disputed counterterrorism policies of the Bush years, Mr. Obama postponed for at least six months difficult decisions on the details.[12]

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Wednesday March 11, 2009

Guantanamo cases proceed despite Obama freeze
By Jane Sutton

MIAMI (Reuters) - The Guantanamo war crimes trials remain officially frozen while U.S. President Barack Obama weighs how to proceed with the terrorism prosecutions but several of the cases are still very much in motion.

In this photo, reviewed by the U.S. Military, a guard stands near the shadow of a detainee at Guantanamo's Camp 5 detention center, at the U.S. Naval Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, January 21, 2009. (REUTERS/Brennan Linsley/Pool/Files)

The chief judge in the Guantanamo court, Army Col. Stephen Henley, ordered the public release on Tuesday of a document in which five defendants boastfully repeated their claims of guilt in plotting the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

Military lawyers are still filing legal documents in other cases in anticipation that the Guantanamo trials will resume as soon as Obama's freeze order expires on May 20.

Another judge has already scheduled pretrial hearings at Guantanamo for the week of July 6 in the case against Tanzanian Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, accused of supplying equipment and support for the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania.

After taking office in January, Obama ordered a four-month freeze on proceedings while his administration decides whether it will move the Guantanamo prosecutions into the regular U.S. civilian or military courts or keep the widely criticized special tribunals established by the Bush administration.

A Pentagon spokesman, Navy Commander J.D. Gordon, said the filings, document releases and scheduling did not violate Obama's order, which only prohibited bringing new charges or holding war court sessions at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

"We are in compliance with the president's executive orders," Gordon said on Tuesday.

Obama has ordered the detention camp at Guantanamo shut by January 2010 as part of an attempt to restore America's human rights image and is still weighing what to do with the 241 remaining captives, many held without trial for seven years.

The Pentagon did not explain why it was moving forward with the steps. Critics accuse the military of trying to keep the momentum going so it will be harder to stop the Guantanamo process.

'TERRORISTS TO THE BONE'

The military is divided on the issue. Some of the officers who support the Guantanamo tribunals have lobbied the Obama administration to keep the proceedings rather than bring any Guantanamo defendants to the United States for trial in a court where they would enjoy more legal rights.

The document released on Tuesday from the five accused Sept. 11 plotters was immediately seized on by Guantanamo supporters as proof the offshore prison needed to stay open. The document was billed as the five suspects' response to the U.S. military's accusations against them.

In it, self-described Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-defendants boasted that they were "terrorists to the bone" and said they viewed the mass murder charges against them as "a badge of honor."

They said the United States had committed war crimes by killing civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq and indirectly in the Palestinian territories and Lebanon through its military and economic support of Israel.

"Did you forget about your nuclear bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki?" the accused al Qaeda operatives asked, adding that they were committed to "Killing you and fighting you and destroying you."

The five, who would face execution if convicted, had made similar boasts and tried to plead guilty during several pretrial hearings at Guantanamo. But their pleas were delayed until the judge decides whether two of them are sane enough to act as their own attorneys, and until he determines whether the murky rules allow guilty pleas in death penalty cases.

Military lawyers assigned to defend the accused said they had not seen the document before it was publicly released and questioned whether all five defendants had really written it.

"It is highly irregular and prejudicial for the (judge) to accept a statement from represented accused, let alone immediately order its public release before counsel were even served a copy of it or put on notice of its filing," said Navy Lieutenant Richard Federico, one of the lawyers representing defendant Ramzi Binalshibh.

The American Civil Liberties Union, which has long opposed the Guantanamo tribunals, said the release of the documents "raises the suspicion that political motivations are at play" especially since the Guantanamo judges have often refused to even release documents read in public court sessions.



aku tak leh nak bayangkan guantanamo ni finally nak kena tutup... tapi aku applaud ler... dah2 ler tu....  bukan sikit worang kena seksa kat sini...kalu baca pasai guantanamo ni... cissssssssss   mmg naik bulu sumer... bulu roma ler...  

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Tanx amazed aku x leh buke pm.

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Gitmo tutup pindah kat prsion baru lak

org Msia tu yg JI kan..

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Originally posted by tok_rimau87 at 13-3-2009 14:20
Gitmo tutup pindah kat prsion baru lak

org Msia tu yg JI kan..

tak tahu la pula pasal prison baru -
ingatkan depa bawa balik prisoner2 tu -

yang 2 orang malaysia tu  JI -
dengarnya akan bawa balik ke malaysia -

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Obama mahu tribunal bicara tahanan Guantanamo



GAMBAR fail menunjukkan seorang tahanan dikawal
oleh dua pengawal penjara di Teluk Guantanamo, Cuba.



WASHINGTON - Presiden Amerika Syarikat (AS), Barack Obama (gambar) akan mengumumkan pada minggu ini untuk memulihkan kembali suruhanjaya tribunal tentera bagi membicarakan sejumlah suspek keganasan yang ditahan di Teluk Guantanamo, Cuba, kata beberapa pegawai AS.

Mereka berkata, skop perlindungan undang-undang terhadap kumpulan tahanan tersebut diperluaskan bagi memastikan mereka mendapat keadilan.

Obama dijadual bertemu Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Kehakiman Senat, Patrick Leahy dan beberapa pemimpin kanan Kongres di White House hari ini bagi membincangkan perkara itu.

Menurut satu sumber kelmarin, Presiden AS itu akan mendesak Kongres yang mewujudkan tribunal tentera pada 2006 supaya menolak penggunaan bukti berdasarkan khabar angin, mengharamkan pengakuan secara paksaan dan membenarkan suspek memilih peguam mereka.

Langkah tersebut akan memberi kesan positif terutamanya kepada lima suspek utama dalam serangan ke atas bandar raya New York dan Washington pada 11 September, 2001 termasuk ketua mereka, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

"Saya percaya perkara itu akan diumumkan dalam tempoh terdekat," kata Pengerusi Pasukan Keselamatan Senat, Carl Levin

Penjara Teluk Guantanamo di Cuba kini masih didiami 241 suspek pengganas dari 30 buah negara.

Obama sebelum ini mengkritik keras penggunaan tribunal tentera bagi tujuan itu ketika era pentadbiran Presiden George W. Bush.

Malah, pada 22 Januari lepas, White House mengumumkan bahawa Obama telah menandatangani arahan menggantung suruhanjaya berkenaan selama 120 hari manakala penjara Teluk Guantanamo pula akan ditutup dalam tempoh setahun. - AFP

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Wednesday June 10, 2009

First Guantanamo suspect moved to U.S. for trial

By Edith Honan

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States transferred the first detainee from Guantanamo Bay on Tuesday to stand trial in a U.S. civilian court in a test case for President Barack Obama's plans to close the controversial prison for foreign terrorism suspects.

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian held at the U.S. naval base in Cuba since 2006 accused of involvement in the bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa, is depicted in this courtroom sketch of his arraignment, in New York, June 9, 2009. (REUTERS/Christine Cornell)

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian held at the U.S. naval base in Cuba since 2006, pleaded not guilty in Manhattan federal court to charges of conspiring in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya that killed 224 people.

He had been escorted to New York by U.S. marshals, the Department of Justice said.

Bringing Ghailani to the United States and putting him on trial in a civilian court will test Obama's contention that some of the roughly 240 detainees at the camp can be safely prosecuted and imprisoned in the United States.

Republicans have criticized the president's plan to transfer Guantanamo suspects to the United States. "This is the first step in the Democrats' plan to import terrorists into America," House of Representatives Republican leader John Boehner said in a statement.

Civil liberties advocates say Obama should bring all Guantanamo detainees into U.S. civilian courts.
Ghailani faces 286 counts, including charges of conspiring with Osama bin Laden and other members of al Qaeda to kill Americans, and separate charges of murder for each of the 224 people killed in the Aug. 7, 1998, bombings.

Ghailani was brought into the courtroom wearing a blue jail uniform and appeared relaxed. Judge Loretta Preska asked him how he would plea, and he said, "Not guilty" in English. At other points, he spoke in Swahili through a court interpreter.

Ghailani's military defense attorneys, Jeff Colwell and Rick Rider, said their application to assist in Ghailani's defense is pending before the U.S. defense department.

"We hope he gets his day in court and we hope he gets a fair trial," Colwell told reporters on the courthouse steps. "It is a good thing for the rule of law. He's in an established court, with established procedures. Not in kind of the limbo that he's been in for so many years."

Ghailani was transferred three weeks after Obama laid out his plans for closing the Guantanamo camp by January 2010. The prison, long condemned by human rights groups, was opened in 2002 under President George W. Bush after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

HELPING IN TANZANIA BOMBING

Ghailani is charged with helping to buy a truck and oxygen and acetylene tanks used in the Tanzania bombing, and of loading boxes of TNT, detonators, and other equipment into the back of the truck in the weeks immediately before the bombing.

At a 2007 hearing at Guantanamo Bay to determine that he was an "enemy combatant" and thus eligible to be held at Guantanamo, Ghailani confessed and apologized for supplying equipment used in the Tanzania bombing but said he did not know the supplies would be used to attack the embassy, according to military transcripts.

Republican congressional leaders were quick to criticize Ghailani's transfer, saying it endangered U.S. security and was opposed by most Americans.

But Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement the Justice Department had a "long history of securely detaining and successfully prosecuting terror suspects" and it could be repeated in this case. Four other co-conspirators in the bombings were tried and convicted at the same federal court in New York in 2001.

The American Civil Liberties Union has called on the Obama administration to go further.

"Trying terrorists in federal court is the legal and the wise way to address the remaining Guantanamo detainees," said Jonathan Hafetz, staff attorney at the ACLU's National Security Project. "The federal prosecutions stand in contrast to the failed military commission system that the Obama administration said it's reviving."

In a speech on Guantanamo last month, Obama said detainees could be tried in U.S. criminal courts, released or sent to other countries, or tried in revised military tribunals. There was also a category of inmates he considered too dangerous to be released or prosecuted.

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EU setuju bantu tahanan Guantanamo

LUXEMBOURG - Kesatuan Eropah (EU) semalam bersetuju untuk membantu pentadbiran Presiden Amerika Syarikat (AS), Barack Obama bagi membuka lembaran baru berhubung isu penjara Guantanamo.

EU dan AS dalam satu kenyataan bersama menyatakan, beberapa negara di Eropah bersedia untuk menerima tahanan dari penjara AS di Cuba tersebut dengan meneliti setiap kes mereka.

Washington kini berharap dapat mencari rumah tahanan bagi membantu pembebasan mereka di pusat tahanan Teluk Guantanamo yang sehingga kini masih belum dibicarakan di mahkamah.

Hampir 50 daripada 240 tahanan meninggalkan penjara Guantanamo menjelang bulan depan akan dihantar semula ke Eropah.

Pada satu ketika, terdapat 778 tahanan di kem Guantanamo yang mula dibuka pada awal 2002 berikutan usaha AS dalam menentang keganasan setelah bangunan World Trade Centre di New York ranap dalam satu serangan pengganas pada 11 September 2001.

Pegawai EU, Jonathan Faull berkata, langkah berkenaan adalah permulaan baru dalam hubungan AS-EU. - AP

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Gitmo tetap ditutup Januari

WASHINGTON 30 Jun - White House berkata, Presiden Barack Obama tetap yakin beliau akan berjaya menutup kem tahanan di Teluk Guantanamo menjelang Januari ini, meskipun ahli politik membangkitkan persoalan mengenai nasib tahanan-tahanan yang ada.

Keyakinan terbaru White House itu muncul apabila penggubal undang-undang Amerika Syarikat (AS) meneliti secara mendalam untuk menerima tahanan-tahanan dari kem tersebut di bumi AS dan kerjasama Washington dengan sekutunya untuk menerima sebahagian tahanan-tahanan tersebut.

Jurucakap White House, Robert Gibbs dalam taklimat hariannya semalam ketika ditanya sama ada Obama akan dapat menutup kem berkenaan dalam tempoh setahun, seperti yang dirancang, berkata; "Sudah tentu".

"Saya rasa kamu telah melihat perkembangannya begitu progresif sejak beberapa minggu terakhir ini, terutama dengan kenyataan-kenyataan yang dikeluarkan oleh Kesatuan Eropah dan negara-negara individu tentang kesediaan mereka untuk sama-sama memikul tanggungjawab bagi menyelesaikan pemindahan tahanan-tahanan terbabit."

Gibbs juga memberi amaran setiap berita tentang urusan itu dan bahasa undang-undang yang dipertimbangkan oleh pentadbiran tidak bermaksud bahawa Obama telah membuat keputusan mengenai bagaimana cara terbaik untuk menutup kem tersebut.

"Saya rasa terdapat banyak cerita mengenai perkara ini yang cuba mendahulu keputusan yang belum diputuskan.

"Saya tidak tahu sama ada berita-berita itu disebarkan oleh jabatan-jabatan yang berbeza dengan pandangan yang berbeza, tetapi belum ada keputusan muktamad telah dibuat di sini." katanya.

Pada Jumaat lalu, White House telah menafi laporan bahawa ia telah membuat draf mengenai arahan eksekutif bagi membenarkan penahanan selama-lamanya di AS, sebahagian pengganas paling dikehendaki di Teluk Guantanamo.

Seorang pegawai pentadbiran memberitahu AFP bahawa tidak terdapat draf arahan seperti yang dilaporkan, walaupun berlaku perbincangan dalaman mengenai bagaimana untuk mengendalikan tahanan-tahanan yang tidak boleh dibebaskan atau dibicarakan di mahkamah awam.

The Washington Post yang melaporkan berita itu, kemudian mengubah artikelnya dengan berkata bahawa pihak pentadbiran AS 'sedang merangka draf' arahan eksekutif itu, sebagai sebahagian daripada perubahan.

Jika White House tidak dapat bersetuju dengan cadangan penggubal undang-undang untuk membawa apa yang didakwa pengganas-pengganas paling berbahaya ke bumi AS, arahan eksekutif yang dikeluarkan oleh Presiden boleh menjadi salah satu pilihan bagi mewujudkan sistem penahanan baru.

Jabatan Kehakiman telah membisu berhubung sistem penahanan jangka panjang sebelum kajian semula di peringkat dalaman berhubung 229 tahanan 'perang ke atas keganasan' yang masih berada di kem tahanan di pangkalan tentera laut AS di selatan Cuba itu siap sepenuhnya pada 21 Julai ini. - AFP

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Guantanamo mungkin hanya ditutup 2011

WASHINGTON 24 Dis. - Komitmen Presiden Barack Obama untuk menutup penjara Teluk Guantanamo menjelang bulan depan mungkin akan ditangguhkan sehingga 2011.

Ini kerana ia akan mengambil masa berbulan-bulan untuk kerajaan persekutuan membeli sebuah penjara di negeri Illinois dan menaik taraf penjara tersebut bagi menempatkan suspek pengganas.

Jadual waktu pembinaan yang dikeluarkan menunjukkan risiko politik yang pernah dijanjikan Obama, satu kelewatan yang tetap menyaksikan tentangan Kongres dalam membiayai pembelian dan proses naik taraf Pusat Penjara Thomson.

Penggubal undang-undang kedua-dua parti telah menyatakan kebimbangan berhubung keputusan membawa tahanan penjara itu ke Amerika Syarikat (AS).

Peguam Negara, Eric Holder sebelum ini telah memutuskan bahawa perancang utama serangan 11 September 2001, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed dan empat lagi suspek akan dibicarakan di mahkamah persekutuan Manhattan, New York.

Di Senat, seorang jurucakap kepada pemimpin Parti Republikan, Mitch McConnell berjanji bahawa parti itu akan menggunakan taktik kelewatan tersebut bagi menghalang peruntukan wang kepada penjara Illinois dan mengharapkan sokongan daripada Parti Demokrat.

Obama sebelum ini berkata, penjara Teluk Guantanamo akan ditutup pada 22 Januari depan.

Sementara tarikh itu dilihat tidak realistik, Presiden tersebut turut mengarahkan pegawai pentadbirannya supaya segera menyediakan keselamatan maksimum di penjara Thomson.

Jurucakap White House, Ben LaBolt semalam bagaimanapun tidak menyatakan bilakah penjara Teluk Guantanamo dijangka akan ditutup.

Menurutnya, presiden masih komited dengan matlamatnya untuk menutup penjara tersebut sama seperti beliau mula-mula berkhidmat dan perkembangan penting telah dicatat dalam tempoh beberapa minggu kebelakangan ini.

''Jumlah tahanan yang berada di Guantanamo kini juga sudah berkurangan berbanding tahun 2002.

"Kami akan bekerja bersama Kongres untuk memastikan kami memperoleh peruntukan yang perlu bagi membeli dan menaik taraf penjara Thomson, yang akan beroperasi sebahagian besarnya pada kos yang lebih rendah kepada pembayar cukai, tahun depan,'' katanya - AP

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Ahad Februari 28, 2010
Warkah Guantanamo
Oleh LOURDES CHARLES


Gambar terbaru Hambali yang sedang membaca
Al-quran di Kem Guantanamo, Cuba.

CIANJUR (Jawa Barat): Sejak ditahan di Thailand pada tahun 2003, kita tidak pernah menatap wajah pengganas bernama Hambali - pemimpin keempat terpenting dalam rangkaian al-Qaeda dan Osama bin Laden - yang dikaitkan dengan pengeboman Bali dan juga serangan ke atas Pusat Dagangan Dunia di New York.

Tetapi hari ini untuk pertama kalinya dalam tempoh tujuh tahun, wajah terbaru lelaki itu - seorang rakyat Indonesia beristerikan rakyat Malaysia - dipaparkan kepada umum dalam laporan “eksklusif dunia” Mingguan mStar.

Dalam proses untuk memperoleh laporan eksklusif ini, wartawan Mingguan mStar telah menjelajah dari Kuala Lumpur ke Jakarta dan kemudiannya ke Cianjur di Jawa Barat sebelum menyusuri pedalaman dalam kegelapan malam tanpa bintang sehingga tiba di kediaman asal Hambali.

Dilihat sebagai salah seorang daripada segelintir anggota bukan Arab dalam rangkaian al-Qaeda, Hambali kini sedang dipertimbangkan untuk dibawa ke ibu negara Amerika Syarikat, Washington D.C. atau New York untuk perbicaraan di mahkamah terbuka.

Pusat tahanan Guantanamo yang ditadbir oleh AS di tengah Cuba kini dalam proses penutupan atas arahan Presiden Barack Obama.


Gambar Hambali yang dirakam pada tahun 1995 semasa perkahwinannya

Pada 15 Disember tahun lalu, presiden itu menandatangani memorandum mengarahkan sebuah pusat pemulihan baru diwujudkan di bandar Thomson, Illinois bagi penempatan semula para tahanan dari pusat tahanan yang mendapat bantahan penduduk dunia.

Berita mengenai perbicaraan Hambali itu telah menimbulkan reaksi negatif di kalangan penduduk dan masyarakat di kedua-dua buah bandar raya terbabit kerana bimbangkan keselamatan mereka.

Perbicaraan Hambali, 46, dianggarkan melibatkan wang pembayar cukai sebanyak AS$250 juta (RM851 juta) - bakal menjadikannya perbicaraan paling mahal di dunia.

Sementara nasib tahanan tersebut sedang mengambil tempat, tidak banyak maklumat yang diketahui mengenai nasib dua orang rakyat Malaysia yang sedang ditahan di Teluk Guantanamo.

Kedua-duanya - Mohd Farik Amin@Zubair dan Mohd Nazir Lip@Lilliie - disifatkan sangat berbahaya dan mempunyai kaitan secara langsung dengan Jemaah Islamiah, iaitu sebuah lagi organisasi yang mempunyai hubungan dengan al-Qaeda.

Amin dan Nazir dipercayai menerima arahan secara langsung daripada Hambali untuk melaksanakan serangan di bumi AS.


Gambar ketika keluar meninggalkan Malaysia pada tahun 2001.

Mingguan mStar yang berjaya menjejaki kampung halaman keluarga Hambali di sini baru-baru ini, telah memperoleh foto terbaru Hambali dan juga berpeluang menatap surat-surat yang dikirimkan kepada keluarganya itu dari Guantanamo.

Gambar terbaru lelaki buruan AS itu dipercayai dirakamkan oleh Jawatankuasa Antarabangsa Palang Merah di dalam selnya di Kem Delta - iaitu salah satu daripada tiga blok utama kem tahanan Guantanamo.

Ia menunjukkan Hambali yang memakai baju tahanan duduk membaca al-Quran dan kelihatan jauh lebih kurus dengan jambang yang lebih panjang berbanding gambar-gambarnya semasa ditahan pada tahun 2003 dan juga pada tahun 2001 ketika dia berjaya meloloskan diri dari Malaysia.

Bagaimanapun, Hambali berjaya ditangkap di Ayuthaya, Thailand pada 2003 dan kemudiannya dia ditempatkan di beberapa pusat tahanan yang dirahsiakan sebelum diterbangkan ke Guantanamo pada tahun 2006.

Dalam warkah yang dikirim dari Cuba itu Hambali tanpa berselindung menyatakan perasaan rindu terhadap ibunya yang dipanggil “ummi”. Hambali juga menulis bagaimana dia turut merindui adik-beradik dan sanak-saudaranya yang lain selain sentiasa berdoa untuk mereka di samping mengharapkan mereka juga turut mendoakan kesejahteraannya.


Gambar pada 2003 sebagaimana dalam pasport Sepanyol

Warkahnya itu ditulis menggunakan bahasa Indonesia dan juga dialek etnik Sunda iaitu etnik kedua terbesar di Jawa dan merupakan populasi terbesar di Barat Jawa.

Malah terdapat juga di sana sini perkataan Inggeris yang turut dicoretkan Hambali dalam warkahnya itu.