Morning Star Online, January 22, 2010
by Paddy McGuffin
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Almost 200 prisoners remain in the former naval base on Cuba
Friday saw Barack Obama’s self-imposed deadline for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp lapse.
The US administration pledged to shut the prison by January 22 at the latest but on Friday night almost 200 prisoners remained in the former naval base in the Caribbean amid new allegations of murder, torture and state cover-ups.
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Ahmed Belbacha, Guantanamo’s forgotten prisoner
March 13, 2010Morning Star Online, Friday 12 March 2010
Former British resident Ahmed Belbacha is beyond any doubt the forgotten man of Guantanamo. A tragic figure, who although declared innocent after eight years of false imprisonment, cannot leave as he has no country to return to.
For all Barack Obama’s much-vaunted election pledges to close Guantanamo Bay, Belbacha, along with his fellow prisoner Shaker Aamer, continues to languish in the US camp despite having been cleared of any wrongdoing and being deemed eligible for release.
Belbacha’s case, perhaps more than any other, exposes the appalling absurdity and cynicism of the so-called war on terror.
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