Highlights

An eight-month probe by McClatchy of U.S. war-on-terror detention policy and practices, from Afghanistan to Guantánamo Bay
Documents

The Miami Herald's Guantánamo archive (updated 12/03/08)
Pop Culture

Guantánamo as iconic in the theater, books and music
By the numbers

The prison camps census, war crimes tribunals and more
Prison camps

How the detention center has evolved across six years
An interactive timeline on detainees and the courts, from 2001
9/11 trial

An interactive illustrated Who's Who guide

Detainees in Afghanistan seeking right for release

On Dec. 31, 2001, a US Army Soldier with the 65 Military Police Company, 187 Battalion, 10th Mountain Division photographs a detainee in the prison at Sherberghan, Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom.

Four men being held as terror suspects at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan are asking a federal judge for the right to sue for their release - a right already given to detainees at Guantánamo Bay. 1231338456

Judge: Government hiding evidence in Gitmo case

In a federal court in Washington, a judge handling a habeas corpus petition accused the Bush administration of hiding evidence in the case of a Yemeni held at Guantánamo for six years
Court: Detainees' IDs are secret

A federal appeals court ruled Monday that the government can keep secret the identities of detainees who claim they've been abused at the prison camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
France tries accused 9/11 plotter in Tunisia blast

A European convert to Islam allegedly caught on camera beside Osama bin Laden denied Monday any role in a 2002 suicide attack on a Tunisian synagogue allegedly ordered by the self-described mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S.
U.N. envoy: Nations must take Guantánamo inmates

More nations must take in Guantánamo inmates once the U.S.-run prison closes, the U.N.'s torture investigator said Monday, insisting that many were held simply because they were ``in the wrong place at the wrong time.''

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In the Courts
Closing the Camps
Guantánamo Special Coverage

Pentagon sets court date in Cole death penalty case

With the clock ticking toward an end of the Bush administration, there is a flurry of activity planned for ...
Judge mandates medical exam for hunger striker

A judge has ordered an independent medical exam for a Saudi prisoner at Guantánamo who has been on h...
Saudi at Gitmo war court to Obama: Close the camps

A Saudi captive accused of plotting an ill-fated al Qaeda terror attack waved a picture of Barack Obama at ...
Supreme Court revives former Guantánamo detainees' lawsuit

In the dwindling days of the Bush administration, the U.S. Supreme Court takes yet another detainee rights ...
Judge delays last terror trial of Bush administration

With a judge's order, the next Guantánamo terror trial is likely to open six days after Barack Obama...
Five offer guilty pleas in 9/11 plot

A chaotic day at the Guantánamo war court featured an effort by five 9/11 attack suspects to enter g...
Witness pulled in Guantánamo case against Canadian

With military commissions teetering on the edge of extinction, prosecutors pulled a witness in the case of ...
- With war court in doubt, 9/11 case gets new judge
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Britain: No US request to resettle Gitmo captives

Prime Minister Gordon Brown says the U.S. has not asked Britain to accept Guantánamo Bay detainees if the c...
Ex-UK advisor: Britain must help close Gitmo

Britain's former chief legal advisor warned Friday that the U.K. should be prepared to take in Guantá...
GUANTANAMO BAY

Uncertainty shrouds 17 unusual detainees

The question of what to do with 17 Uighur men held at Guantánamo is one of the challenges awaiting a...
Australia 'unlikely' to accept Guantánamo detainees

Australia will likely reject a U.S. request to accept detainees freed from the prison camps at Guantá...
Poland not eager to take detainees

Poland's foreign minister says in remarks published on Saturday that Warsaw is not inclined to help the Uni...
Germany considers taking in Guantánamo prisoners

Germany is considering taking released inmates from the U.S.-run Guantánamo Bay detention center who...
Pentagon staff writing plan to empty prison camps

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has asked his staff to draw up a plan for closing the U.S. detention facilit...
- Gitmo repatriates 3 Algerians to Bosnia
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Closing detainee camp a minefield of critical steps

To find a formula to close the Guantánamo prison camps, the incoming Obama administration will have ...
Once sleepy Navy base could return to oblivion

This was a sleepy Navy outpost before the U.S. began using it to hold prisoners in the wake of the Sept. 11...
PART III | Guantánamo: Beyond the Law

How Gitmo became a terror training ground

Side-by-side with violent extremists at Guantánamo, low-level detainees are being built into new fig...
'Platinum' captives held at off-limits Gitmo camp

Somewhere on this isolated outpost, strictly off-limits from the Pentagon's media tour, is a secret prison ...
7 'worst of the worst' captives now gone

A Miami Herald investigation found that six years after Guantánamo Bay received its first 20 detaine...
Photos echo 6 years later

In 2002, a Navy photographer captured the first Guantánamo detainees in shackles on their knees, cre...
IN THE PRISON CAMPS

Terror suspects' beards are safe now

In a practice that ended in May, guards at the prison camps cut Muslim captives' beards as a disciplinary m...
- Captives rigged nooses
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