This morning, President Barack Obama delivered a statement on his plan to close Guantanamo Bay. You can watch the statement below (begins at 34:08).

Mohammed Jawad was arrested in Kabul in December 2002 by Afghan security forces responding to the scene of a grenade attack on US military personnel. See Jawad v. Gates, No. 14-00811 (D.D.C. July 8, 2015...

Editor's Note: This piece was originally published on Markaz.

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