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Cuba's arrest of a U.S. government contractor employed to help Cuban dissidents may rattle U.S. President Barack Obama's initiative to improve ties with Havana but should not derail it, analysts said.
(RTTNews) - A limited number of detainees being held at the Guantanamo Bay military detention center in Cuba will be transferred to a state prison in rural Illinois the U.S. federal government plans to acquire, said officials Tuesday ahead of a White House announcement expected later in the day.
The federal government will buy the nearly empty Thomson Correctional Center, where it hopes to put up to 100 detainees. President Obama has directed the federal government to buy a nearly empty state prison in rural Illinois to house up to 100 detainees held at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, officials said late Monday.
Several men being held in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, may be tried in two New York federal courts, officials said.
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The State Department says the Cuban government has arrested an American citizen and U.S. diplomats in Havana are trying learn more about the case. Spokeswoman Megan Mattson says the Cuban government told the State Department that the American was detained on Dec. 5. She says the American is not a U.S. government employee.
The State Department says the Cuban government has arrested an American citizen and U.S. diplomats in Havana are trying learn more about the case. Spokeswoman Megan Mattson says the Cuban government told the State Department that the American was detained on Dec. 5. She says the American is not a U.S. government employee.
What's Your Reaction? HAVANA -- A United States government contract worker, who was distributing cellphones, laptops and other communications equipment in Cuba on behalf of the Obama administration, has been detained by the authorities here, American officials said Friday.
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President Barack Obama on Tuesday directed the federal government to acquire an Illinois prison to house Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, detainees. Read more...
Taking an important step on the thorny path to closing the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the White House plans to announce Tuesday that the government will acquire an underutilized state prison in rural Illinois to be the new home for a limited number of terrorist suspects held at Guantanamo. Administration officials as well [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has directed the federal government to acquire a little used state prison in rural Illinois to be the new home for a limited number of terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Mexico's foreign minister met with Cuban President Raul Castro for three hours Friday, the latest sign her country and the island have repaired recently chilly relations.
Taking an important step on the thorny path to closing the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the White House plans to announce Tuesday that the government will acquire an underutilized state prison in rural Illinois to be the new home for a limited number of terrorist suspects held at Guantanamo.
President Barack Obama is ordering the federal government to proceed with acquisition of the Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois to hold a limited number of terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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