Guantánamo Bay
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Former Guantánamo detainee Jamal al-Harith was able to travel to Iraq because he was not considered a major security threat
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Editorial: Jamal al-Harith, previously held at Guantánamo Bay, has blown himself up for Islamic State. But his case cannot justify the expansion of such detention and use of torture
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Former PM denies his government paid compensation to British jihadi who died in Iraq and says Mail campaigned for his release
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British-born jihadi who blew himself up for Islamic State this week was a convert detained for two years at Camp X-Ray
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Family identifies Jamal al-Harith, paid £1m compensation by UK government, as man Islamic State says was behind Mosul attack
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I suffered years of barbaric physical and mental abuse by numerous government agencies. The results were devastating, and entirely counterproductive
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Retired Marine Corps general was in charge of US southern command, including Guantánamo Bay
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Pentagon says release of Yemeni Shawqi Awad Balzuhair, held without trial since October 2002, leaves 59 prisoners at US base in Cuba
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Letters: The president must act with urgency and let the remaining prisoners go home to their families before Donald Trump becomes the next commander-in-chief on 20 January
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Researchers in Afghanistan say US made ‘obvious’ mistakes that harmed detainees and helped fuel country’s insurgency amid 15-year war
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Detainee-turned-memoirist transferred to his native Mauritania after 14 years captivity at the US detention center
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Sent to a remote border town in a strange country, Lutfi Bin Ali describes an isolated existence haunted by 13 years in the world’s most notorious prison
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Two confirmed as joining militant groups in first six months of 2016 – but rate was much higher in Bush years, says intelligence assessment
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Detainee, who the CIA admitted it had waterboarded and who has never been charged with a crime, appears for first time in 14 years at quasi-parole hearing
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Gays Against Guns protest against firearms manufacturers; Trump proposes ‘extreme vetting’ for immigrants; homeless children learn at Oregon school
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Only 61 detainees remain at US facility after transfer made in final months of Obama’s presidency, a move to be announced by Pentagon later on Monday
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Moazzam Begg is interviewed about his incarceration in Cuba in a documentary of great clarity and gravitas
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Why it was right to release Jamal al-Harith in 2004