Us Naval Base In Cuba

A US appeals court on Thursday upheld the last remaining conviction of a Yemeni man prosecuted in an American military court at the Guantanamo Bay US naval base in Cuba for serving as a publicist for al Qaeda.

Tension over the South China Sea highlights the need for the United States to maintain a strong Navy to serve as a deterrent, U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Thursday, criticizing the Obama administration for proposals he said would reduce the US naval fleet.

The White House has asked the Pentagon to revise a report on how the military would close Guantanamo Bay and transfer inmates to the United States, a US official said Thursday.

A US federal court has no jurisdiction and no reason to intervene in the force-feeding of prisoners at the Guantanamo naval base, the Obama administration argued on Wednesday in its latest defense of a policy that critics have deemed unethical.

Five Guantanamo Bay prisoners accused of helping orchestrate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are due back in court as the US government tries to push the long-stalled case forward.

The US military has shut down wireless internet service at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba because of online hacking threats.

Guards rifled through defendants' cells and seized their confidential legal documents while the accused were in the courtroom listening to assurances that no one reads their private attorney-client mail, defence lawyers charged on Thursday.

The specter of torture and the veil of secrecy will loom large over a new series of hearings starting on Monday at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for the accused plotters of the September 11 attacks.

Cuba marked the 59th anniversary on Thursday of the failed uprising against the Moncada military barracks that the island considers the beginning of Fidel Castro's revolution. The main celebration kicked off at sunrise at a plaza in the eastern province of Guantanamo, home to the US naval base of the same name.

A US appeals court on Thursday upheld the last remaining conviction of a Yemeni man prosecuted in an American military court at the Guantanamo Bay US naval base in Cuba for serving as a publicist for al Qaeda.

Tension over the South China Sea highlights the need for the United States to maintain a strong Navy to serve as a deterrent, U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Thursday, criticizing the Obama administration for proposals he said would reduce the US naval fleet.

The White House has asked the Pentagon to revise a report on how the military would close Guantanamo Bay and transfer inmates to the United States, a US official said Thursday.

A US federal court has no jurisdiction and no reason to intervene in the force-feeding of prisoners at the Guantanamo naval base, the Obama administration argued on Wednesday in its latest defense of a policy that critics have deemed unethical.

Five Guantanamo Bay prisoners accused of helping orchestrate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are due back in court as the US government tries to push the long-stalled case forward.

The US military has shut down wireless internet service at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba because of online hacking threats.

Guards rifled through defendants' cells and seized their confidential legal documents while the accused were in the courtroom listening to assurances that no one reads their private attorney-client mail, defence lawyers charged on Thursday.

The specter of torture and the veil of secrecy will loom large over a new series of hearings starting on Monday at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for the accused plotters of the September 11 attacks.

Cuba marked the 59th anniversary on Thursday of the failed uprising against the Moncada military barracks that the island considers the beginning of Fidel Castro's revolution. The main celebration kicked off at sunrise at a plaza in the eastern province of Guantanamo, home to the US naval base of the same name.