Guest Post by Alex Fielding.
In a controversial move, President Obama recently ordered the transfer of Ahmed Ghailani from Guantánamo Bay to a New York federal court for the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya which killed 224 people including 12 Americans. The Obama administration also intends to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, [...]
In addition to his Executive Order on Guantanamo, Barack Obama has also ordered a review of the detention of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri.
The order states, in part:
“For more than 5 years, the Department of Defense has detained Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri as an enemy combatant in facilities within the United States. Al-Marri is the only individual [...]
Below is the complete text of Barack Obama’s Executive Orders calling for the closure of the Guantanamo detention center within one year
EXECUTIVE ORDER — REVIEW AND DISPOSITION OF INDIVIDUALS DETAINED AT THE GUANTÁNAMO BAY NAVAL BASE AND CLOSURE OF DETENTION FACILITIES
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of [...]