Friday, November 07, 2008

Volunteer Orientation Wednesday Nov. 12th at 6:00pm

Volunteer Orientation Wednesday Nov. 12th at 6:00pm

To sign up please email Sara at svaz@notorture.org

Interesting article:

Rodrigo Abd / AP
The Guantanamo Bay facility presents a number of headaches for the incoming administration.
THE ROAD TO THE INAUGURATION
The Gitmo Dilemma
Four reasons Obama won't close the controversial prison soon
By Dan Ephron NEWSWEEK
Published Nov 7, 2008

The detention center at Guantanamo Bay and the flawed justice system created to try terrorist suspects held there are among the most complicated legacies of the Bush administration. They're Obama's problem now. The president elect has said he will shutter Gitmo and put some of the detainees on trial in American criminal courts or military courts martial (his campaign did not return calls seeking comment. But the prisoner mess created by Bush with the stroke of a pen in November, 2001, and made messier over seven years, will take time and resourcefulness to clean up. Here are four reasons the controversial facility will probably still be open for business a year from now.

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