Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson is an American political commentator,writer,and television personality,who hosted the nightly political talk show Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News from 2016 to 2023.
The 2005 Quran desecration controversy began when Newsweek's April 30,2005,issue contained a report asserting that United States prison guards or interrogators had deliberately damaged a copy of the Quran. A week later,The New Yorker reported the words of Pakistani politician Imran Khan:"This is what the U.S. is doing—desecrating the Quran." This incident caused upset in parts of the Muslim world.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO) is a U.S. military joint task force based at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base,Guantánamo Bay,Cuba on the southeastern end of the base. JTF-GTMO falls under US Southern Command. Since January 2002 the command has operated the Guantanamo Bay detention camps Camp X-Ray and its successors Camp Delta,Camp V,and Camp Echo,where detained prisoners are held who have been captured in the war in Afghanistan and elsewhere since the September 11,2001 attacks. From the command's founding in 2002 to early 2022,the detainee population has been reduced from 779 to 37. As of June 2021,the unit is under the command of U.S. Army Brigadier General Lance A. Okamura.
Clive Adrian Stafford Smith is a British attorney who specialises in the areas of civil rights and working against the death penalty in the United States of America. He worked to overturn death sentences for convicts,and helped found the not-for-profit Louisiana Capital Assistance Center in New Orleans. By 2002 this was the "largest capital defence organisation in the South." He was a founding board member of the Gulf Region Advocacy Center,based in Houston,Texas.
Abdul Zahir (عبدالظاهر) is a citizen of Afghanistan currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps,in Cuba. He was the tenth captive,and the first Afghan,to face charges before the first Presidentially authorized Guantanamo military commissions. After the Supreme Court ruled that the President lacked the constitutional authority to set up military commissions,the United States Congress passed the Military Commissions Act of 2006,he was not charged under that system.
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a United States military prison within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base,also referred to as Gitmo,on the coast of Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. Of the 780 people detained there since January 2002 when the military prison first opened after the September 11 attacks,741 have been transferred elsewhere,30 remain there,and 9 have died while in custody.
Khaled Ahmed Qasim is a Yemeni citizen who has been held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba,since May 2002.
Mourad Benchellali is a French citizen,who was captured by Pakistanis forces and detained in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 161.
Erik Wemple is an American journalist who works as a columnist and media critic at The Washington Post. He was formerly the editor of the alternative weekly Washington City Paper.
Mohammed Ahmad Ghulam Rabbani is a citizen of Pakistan who was extrajudicially detained by the United States military at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba from 2004 to 2023. He was never charged with a crime,was never tried,and was a subject of enhanced interrogation techniques.
Moath Hamza Ahmed al-Alwi is a citizen of Yemen,held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps,in Cuba. His detainee ID number is 28. Guantanamo analysts estimated he was born in 1977,in Bajor,Yemen.
Kristine Huskey is an American lawyer. Huskey is notable because she volunteered to help defend Guantanamo detainees. Huskey is the author of "Standards and Procedures for Classifying "Enemy Combatants":Congress,What Have You Done?"
5 Pointz:The Institute of Higher Burnin' or 5Pointz Aerosol Art Center,Inc.,mainly referred to as simply 5 Pointz or 5Pointz,was an American mural space at 45–46 Davis Street in Long Island City,Queens,New York City. When the building opened in 1892,it housed the Neptune Meter factory,which built water meters.
Richard Warren Roberts is an inactive Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Detainees held in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps have initiated both individual and widespread hunger strikes at Guantánamo Bay,and camp medical authorities have initiated force-feeding programs.
In late 2008,the Department of Defense published a list of the Guantanamo captives who died in custody,were freed,or were repatriated to the custody of another country. The list was drafted on October 8,2008,and was published on November 26,2008. Subsequently almost two hundred more captives have been released or transferred,and several more have died in custody.
Sada Mire is a Swedish-Somali archaeologist,art historian and presenter who currently serves as assistant professor at the faculty of archeology,Leiden University. she is from Arap clan She is a public intellectual and heritage activist who has argued that cultural heritage is a basic human need in her 2014 TEDxEuston talk. In 2017,Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts selected Mire as one of their 30 international thinkers and writers. She became the Director of Antiquities pf Somaliland in 2007. Raised in the Somali capital of Mogadishu,Mire fled the country at the start of the civil war at the age of 15. She then traveled to Sweden seeking asylum. She has since returned to the Horn of Africa as an archaeologist.
Blair Imani is an American author,historian,and activist. She identifies as queer,Black,bisexual and Muslim. She is a member of the Black Lives Matter movement,and is known for protesting the shooting of Alton Sterling and Executive Order 13769.
