Ukraine-Poland border
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba was the "least worst place" to send the Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters picked up on the battlefield in Afghanistan. The administration wanted to move the detainees out of the war theater to a secure location for questioning as quickly as possible. Guantanamo had the dual advantage of being controlled by the United States, yet not on domestic soil. The president's advisers believed a facility within the United States could become a terrorist target. They also didn't want the federal courts to interfere with their management of the prison, or take up due-process challenges from the detainees.
The remote island of Guantanamo, called "Gitmo" by the generations of marines who served there, had a long and bizarre history: The oldest American base outside the continental U.S., Gitmo is also the only base to sit on the soil of a country that maintains no diplomatic relations with the United States.
"We thought the fact that Guantanamo was outside the territory of the United States would eliminate an important legal ambiguity," says Bradford Berenson, associate White House counsel from 2001 to 2003. "As it turns out, we were wrong."
In June 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Rasul v. Bush that Guantanamo detainees have the right to challenge their detentions in federal court. To date, 100 habeas corpus petitions have been filed on behalf of 225 detainees.
http://www.answers.com/topic/windsor-ontario
This is just an encyclopedia article about windsor, but it breaks up into lots of different catagories.. but the following section on Transportation was pretty interesting... (especially the second & third paragraphs)
WASTE KNOT: Too dirty for Canada, Canflow dumps in Detroit sewers. (2-20-2002)
Published:
Responding to a demand from border guards for weapons to defend themselves and combat criminals, the federal government said Thursday that it would begin arming guards in September 2007.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper said some guards would begin receiving firearms next fall, with about 150 expected to be armed by March 2008. But it will take at least a decade to arm all of the nearly 5,000 guards along
The plan calls for 500 to 600 guards to be armed each year over the course of the program.
Mr. Harper, announcing the plan at a crossing south of
The plan will also add a second guard at crossings that now have only one on duty, an increase of 400 guards at a cost of about $91 million.
Larger crossings, like the one at
The unarmed guards, members of the Canada Border Services Agency, have walked off the job several times in the past year, saying they need guns to defend the border and themselves. The union representing them threatened a strike over the issue in 2005. In January, Canadian guards in
That incident came days after a federal election campaign that pitted the long-ruling Liberal Party against Mr. Harper's Conservatives. The Liberal Party opposed the arming of border guards, offering instead to add armed officers of the mounted police at the busiest crossings. Mr. Harper promised more border guards and firearms for them.
Some experts see the move as an acknowledgment that border security is a growing concern, even if it comes at the expense of smooth-flowing border traffic.
''It's a move away from the border being a place where essentially we collect taxes -- recognition that it has a real security component to it that directly affects the safety and security of Canadians,'' Scott Newark, a security expert, said in a television interview.
Since taking office in February, Mr. Harper has tried to improve relations with the White House through an increased role in
Mr. Harper's decision to arm guards may allay fears in the
