White House Terms Permanent Detention Without Trial Regrettable

No end soon for Guantanamo: White House
Source: AFP WASHINGTON — The White House admitted Sunday it would be unable to shut Guantanamo Bay in the near future, even as it acknowledged the US naval Prison camp is a rallying cry for Islamic Extremists. Nearly a year has passed since President Barack Obama's self-imposed deadline to shutter the camp, but his spokesman said legal and legislative hurdles would prevent that goal being realized any time soon. "It's certainly not going to close in the next month. I think it's going to be a whi...

No end soon for Guantanamo: White House
Agence France-Presse · Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010 WASHINGTON - The White House admitted Sunday it would be unable to shut Guantanamo Bay in the near future, even as it acknowledged the U.S. naval Prison camp is a rallying cry for Islamic Extremists. Nearly a year has passed since President Barack Obama’s self-imposed deadline to shutter the camp, but his spokesman said legal and legislative hurdles would prevent that goal being realized any time soon. “It’s certainly not going ...

No end soon for Guantanamo: White House
Stumble This! WASHINGTON — The White House admitted Sunday it would be unable to shut Guantanamo Bay in the near future, even as it acknowledged the US naval Prison camp is a rallying cry for Islamic Extremists. Nearly a year has passed since President Barack Obama's self-imposed deadline to shutter the camp, but his spokesman said legal and legislative hurdles would prevent that goal being realized any time soon. "It's certainly not going to close in the next month. I think it's going to...

Connie Lawn: Thoughts on White House Events
This White House runs fairly smoothly, and the staff members are, on the whole, very nice to the media. We tend to have good personal relations. But, many of us in the press corps hope they can find more zip, electricity, and passion in the days ahead. It is a good thing to be organized, but it has its limitations. I have been fortunate enough to cover the White House since the Lyndon Johnson Administration, in 1968. I guess that makes me senior correspondent, unless I can find someone who has...

Obama's Spokesmouth Robert Gibbs Feels Sorry For Poor Detained Al-Queda Terrorists
More denial from the Obama Regime about Islamofascist Terrorists (Politico) White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says it's unfortunate that some terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay need to be held indefinitely without trial. "Some would be tried in federal courts, as we've seen done in the past. Some would be tried in Military commissions, likely spending the rest of their lives in a maximum-security Prison that nobody, including terrorists, have ever escaped from. Some, regrettably, will ...

Obama's Guantanamo headache continues
The White House admits it can't shut Guantanamo Bay in the near future, even as it acknowledged the US naval Prison camp is a Lightning Rod for Islamic Extremists. Nearly a year has passed since President Barack Obama's self-imposed deadline to shutter the camp, but his spokesman said legal and legislative hurdles would prevent reaching that goal any time soon. "It's certainly not going to close in the next month. I think it's going to be a while before that Prison closes," Robert Gibbs told CNN...

On the Radar: Blizzard in Northeast U.S., bomb blocked in Italy
Baby, it's cold outside : Travelers in the northeastern U.S. are stuck Monday because several major airports are closed due to blizzard conditions. All three airports in the New York City area are shuttered, and blizzard warnings are in effect for parts of New England. More than 2,500 flights have been canceled across the country since the storm began, airline representatives said. Watch for live weather and flight updates in New York and Philly on CNN. Italy Embassy bomb : Police in Italy ...

Suspected U.S. Missiles Hit Pakistani Tribal Region
Monday, December 27, 2010 By Rasool Dawar, Associated Press Peshawar, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani intelligence officials say the death toll in a suspected U.S. Missile Strike in Pakistan's northwest has doubled to 12. They say the death toll could rise even more. The officials say six missiles struck two vehicles Monday in the Shera Tala area of the North Waziristan tribal region. North Waziristan has been the primary target of a ramped up campaign of American missile strikes fired from drone...

Obama's Repeated Claim That Gitmo Is Major AQ Recruitment Tool Is Nonsense
Obama and other liberals have been saying Gitmo is a major recruitment tool for Al Qaeda for years. They never quite getting around to proving that or demonstrating what exactly will be different if we closed Gitmo but that doesn't stop them from saying it ad nauseam. Doing the job the MFM is supposed to but won't do, Thomas Joscelyn looked at Al Aqeda Propaganda statements over the years and found that Gitmo rarely makes the Propaganda cut. THE Weekly Standard has reviewed translations of 34 ...

Suicide bomber kills 3 in south Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan — A Suicide car bombing in the southern Taliban stronghold of Kandahar killed three people and wounded 26 others, mostly police, officials said Monday, in an attack spotlighting instability in Afghanistan as the NATO-led fight against Insurgents there approaches the start of its 10th year. The bomber struck in the crowded center of the city, near a police compound and a branch of Kabul Bank, and witnesses described a chaotic scene after the dust and smoke cleared. "I was...

Be thankful Obama broke his promise on Guantanamo
AP File A U.S. soldier keeps watch from a guard tower overlooking Camp Delta Detention Center on Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. "We're going to close Guantanamo," said Candidate Barack Obama at a June 2007 campaign Fundraiser in San Antonio, Texas. "We're going to close Guantanamo," Obama said at a rally in Fairfield, Iowa, 10 days later. "We're going to close Guantanamo," Obama said in a Speech in Chesapeake, Va., in August 2008. It was perhaps the simplest, clearest promise of the Ob...

States of Conflict: An Update
By IAN LIVINGSTON, HEATHER MESSERA, MICHAEL E. O’HANLON and AMY UNIKEWICZ NYT IT is fairly straightforward to summarize the past year in Iraq and Pakistan, but a more complicated matter for Afghanistan. This was the year of two big developments in Iraq: the major reduction in American combat forces and a protracted election in which voting in March was followed by a nine-month delay in forming a new government. Despite the political confusion, violence did not escalate, and The Economy conti...

Pakistan: suspected US drone strike against Taliban kills 18
A Reaper drone, as used by the CIA and American Military in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Photograph: Ethan Miller/Getty Images Suspected US missiles struck two vehicles in a Taliban stronghold near the border with Afghanistan today, killing 18 alleged Militants, according to Pakistani intelligence officials. The attack in the North Waziristan tribal region came at the end of a year that has seen an unprecedented number of US drone strikes on Pakistani soil, part of a ramped-up US campaign to ta...

No White House action on Afghanistan oversight; McCaskill irate
A full year has passed since a Bipartisan group of senators began calling for the sacking of Arnie Fields, the embattled Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), and those senators are as frustrated as ever that the White House refuses to address the situation. Sens. Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Tom Coburn (R-OK), and Susan Collins (R-ME), have been pressing the White House to fire Fields since December 2009, following complaints about both the conduct and the work produc...

White House Pushing Back Against Revived Chatter About End-Of-Life Planning
The White House is denying that a new Medicare Regulation revives language dropped from the Health Care Reform Bill that covered voluntary end-of-life planning sessions between doctors and patients. The policy was removed from the Health Care bill after Republicans and right-wing opponents of the bill construed the provision as creating "Death Panels" for old people. The New York Times reported yesterday that beginning January 1st: Under the new policy, outlined in a Medicare regulation, the...

Gibbs: Gitmo Not Closing Anytime Soon
CNN reports: A year has passed since the Obama Administration said the Guantanamo Bay Military Prison would close, but White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Sunday that the facility won’t go away in the near future. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Gibbs said that even though the site is a recruiting tool for Islamic Terrorists, legal and legislative issues have contributed to the delay in its closing. “It’s certainly not going to close...

WH: Replacement for Summers by Mid-Jan
The AP reports: Don’t look for any big changes in President Barack Obama’s Cabinet as the new year gets under way. The president’s Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs, tells CNN’s “State of the Union” that he doesn’t expect any major shuffling to take place in the Cabinet. Gibbs says that there’s much work yet to be done at the Treasury Department to implement Financial Reform and at the Health and Human Services Department to implement Health Care ref...

One less New Years resolution for Obama
President Barack Obama can cross at least one New Year’s resolution off his list … quitting Smoking. According to White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, it’s been about 9 months since the president indulged in that habit. He told Candy Crowley on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Obama decided to quit after the battle over healthcare Legislation. “I can report that it’s been probably about 9 months since he last smoked a Cigarette. H...

Militias stem Pakistani Taliban, but at what cost?
MATANI, Pakistan - Tribal Militias allied with the government helped block a Taliban advance in this corner of northwest Pakistan close to the Afghan border, but their success has come at a price: the Empowerment of untrained, unaccountable private armies that could yet emerge as a threat of their own. Tensions are emerging between authorities and the dozens of Militias that they helped to create predominantly in and near the northwest tribal regions. Operating from fortress-like compounds...

18 Taleban suspects killed in strike
Suspected US missiles struck two vehicles in a Taleban stronghold on Pakistan's side of the border with Afghanistan yesterday, killing 18 alleged Militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The attack in the North Waziristan tribal region came in the final days of a year that has witnessed an unprecedented number of such strikes from drone Aircraft flying over Pakistani soil, part of a ramped-up US campaign to take out Al-Qaeda and Taleban fighters seeking sanctuary outside Afghanistan. ...

Drone strikes kill 25 in Pakistan
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Two drone attacks on trucks in mountainous northwest Pakistan Monday killed 25 suspected Militants, officials said. Geo News reported one unmanned Aircraft fired several missiles at targets in Mir Ali village, about 16 miles east of Miranshah, the North Waziristan district's main town. "Four missiles hit the vehicle and two struck the compound," an official said. The identities of those killed weren't immediately known, the network said. The Los Angeles Time...

US missile attack kills at least 15 in Pakistan
US missiles killed at least 15 Militants in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt where the United Nations said Monday it was suspending food handouts in one district after a Suicide Attack. The missiles destroyed a vehicle and compound in North Waziristan, reputedly the country's most impregnable Taliban and Al-Qaeda fortress where US officials want Pakistan to launch a ground offensive to eliminate the militant threat. Local security officials said unmanned US Aircraft struck Mir Ali village, 25...

US missiles hit Pakistan borderlands, killing 18
© Unknown DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan - Suspected U.S. missiles struck two vehicles in a Taliban stronghold on Pakistan's side of the border with Afghanistan on Monday, killing 18 alleged Militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The attack in the North Waziristan tribal region came in the final days of a year that has witnessed an unprecedented number of such strikes from drone Aircraft flying over Pakistani soil, part of a ramped-up U.S. campaign to take out al-Qaida and Taliban...

Intel: Alleged U.S. Missiles Hit Pakistan, Kills 6
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan - Suspected U.S. missiles struck a vehicle in a Militant stronghold on Pakistan's side of the border with Afghanistan on Monday, killing six people, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The attack in the North Waziristan tribal region came in the final days of a year that has witnessed an unprecedented number of such drone-fired strikes on Pakistani soil, part of a ramped-up U.S. campaign to take out al-Qaida and Taliban fighters seeking sanctuary outside Afgha...

Suspected U.S. Drone Strike Kills 18 In Pakistan
Suspected U.S. missiles struck two vehicles in a Taliban stronghold on Pakistan's side of the border with Afghanistan on Monday, killing 18 alleged Militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The attack in the North Waziristan tribal region came in the final days of a year that has witnessed an unprecedented number of such strikes from drone Aircraft flying over Pakistani soil, part of a ramped-up U.S. campaign to take out al-Qaida and Taliban fighters seeking sanctuary outside Afghanistan...