U.S. adopts tougher stance at Guantanamo

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U.S. adopts tougher stance at Guantanamo

By ANDREW SELSKY, Associated Press Writer 46 minutes ago

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - The military is toughening a new jailhouse for suspected al-Qaida and Taliban militants to protect guards after a spate of attacks and evidence that detainees have organized themselves into groups to mount uprisings, officials said.


The hardening comes as U.N. human rights investigators are calling for closing the entire detention center on this remote U.S. base. But with the war against terror groups dragging on, commanders say they have no choice in dealing with men deemed enemy combatants.

Events in recent months have made Guantanamo officials extremely wary:

• Detainees lured guards into a cell in the prison's Camp 4 by staging a suicide attempt in May, then attacked with fan blades and broken pieces of fluorescent light fixtures, the military says. Defense attorneys say the clash was sparked when guards tried to search prisoners' Qurans.

• On June 10, three detainees in Camp 1 committed suicide. Navy Rear Adm. Harry Harris, commander of the jail, described it as a coordinated protest action — "not an act of desperation but an act of asymmetric warfare against us."

[Teaser]

1. we truly are a city on a hill.

nt

[otherlander]

5. I saw John Proctor with the devil...

[Solly Mack]

2. Yeah, killing themselves really showed us!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. There's no acknowledgment that being held for five years without

charges, incognito, subject to harsh interrogation and perhaps torture, and with no word on when and if they'll ever be released might make the prisoners a little...irritable?

[otherlander]

4. Yes, it was so obviously planned in advance...

grabbing fan blades in an attempt to stop men with guns is quite obviously part of a huge conspiracy...

[MADem]

6. Well, sounds to me like the "state of the art" facility was built by cost

cutting crony contractors.

Fan blades? Chunks of fluorescent lights? How the fuck were they able to get ahold of this shit, unless the facility was constructed by morons with no clue as to how to build prisoner - proof facilities, and the guards weren't doing much in the way of watching their camp "guests."

And come on, any asshole who watches the "LOCK UP" documentaries on MSNBC knows that the old 'weapon making' escapades happen with things like removable faucets--why weren't the ones installed down there they the kind used in PRISONS? And poo-flinging; that's a staple, too:

Guards recently discovered detainees in Camp 1 were dismantling faucets on sinks, removing long, sharp springs and reinforcing them into stabbing weapons, Army Lt. Col. Mike Nicolucci said. Camp 1 has been emptied of detainees while new faucets are installed, with inaccessible springs.

From July 2005 through August, the military recorded 432 assaults by detainees using "cocktails" of bodily excretions thrown at guards, 227 physical assaults and 99 instances of inciting or participating in disturbances or riots.....

And look at the MONEY they are throwing at this fucking farce, and look at the CAPACITY:

Underscoring the military's toughening stance, a jailhouse in the final stages of construction on a cactus-studded plateau overlooking the Caribbean is being "hardened" into a maximum-security facility. Camp 6 was to have opened in August as a medium-security lockup.

The modifications have pushed back the completion date of the $37.8 million jailhouse, which has a capacity for 220 inmates, to Sept. 30. It will take its first detainees in mid-October, Army Capt. Dan Byer said.

As a medium-security jail, inmates would have had common areas where they could talk and share meals. The eight common areas, with gleaming metal tables and stools, still exist, but will be off limits to detainees under maximum security.

"Anti-jump fencing" is being added to second floor tiers, and a high-tech control room will allow guards to monitor the facility while sitting at computers.

Shower doors have been specially made for the modification. Inmates will be escorted to showers, shut in and escorted back to their cells when they are finished washing. As a medium-security jail, inmates would have been able to walk unescorted across the common area to the showers.

Camp 6 underscores the prison's increasing permanence.....

[ConcernedCanuk]

7. Too much detail MADem, - "morons with no clue" - that's enuf right there

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And that's what y'all have running your country

"morons with no clue "

[daleo]

8. U.S. adopts tougher stance at Guantanamo

= more sophisticated forms of toture?