US military to expand Guantanamo Bay camp

[Say_What]

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In another sign that the US detention mission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is set for the long haul, the military announced Sunday it is building a fifth camp to hold more detainees and expand interrogation facilities.

Camp V will make room for 100 more detainees, increasing the capacity at the remote naval base in eastern Cuba to 1,100, Lieutenant-Colonel Pamela Hart said in a telephone interview.

Since it first opened in January last year, the detention center has grown from open-air, chain-link cells that some likened to animal cages to trailer-style quarters where detainees have a metal bed, a sink and flush toilets.

It currently holds about 660 men from 42 countries detained for alleged links to the al-Qaeda terror network or the ousted Afghan Taliban regime that sheltered it. They include three teens aged 13 to 15 whom the military says it probably will recommend for release soon.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2003/08/26/2003065296

[tlcandie]

1. So, isn't this like the British did with Australia a LONG time ago?

Push their prisoners to far away islands w/o rules or rights? At least they had trials before they were shipped off!

Maybe this is why they don't want to lift the Cuban embargo...because then peeps might see first hand GITMO? :shrug: Just a thought.

[MaverickX]

6. the difference is the prisoners at Gitmo..

Didn't commit crimes on U.S. soil. Britain shipped people convicted of violating British laws to Australia.

[realFedUp]

2. Say what?

well, your taxdollars at work....if they build them,
they have to come. Maybe we can retire Bush Inc.
down there.

[thebigidea]

3. gee, I wonder which company gets the contract

"cough."

[arcane1]

4. Hooray!! More unsupervised wealth for Halliburton!!!

Those hard-working bastards are earning truckloads of freedom-profit!!

:puke:


war profiteering, anyone? Is that even a problem anymore? :shrug:

[lumpy]

5. And the righties condemn the Cuban courts

for dealing harshly with dissidents. At least the Cuban dissidents are provided due juducial process.

[MaverickX]

7. members of Al Qaeda are just dissidents?

Yeah right.

[lumpy]

8. ? Who said suspected members of AlQueda are dissidents ?

Read it again. The prisoners held in Guantanamo are 'suspected' Al Queda, held in limbo by the US military, unidentified, without legal course as specified under the Geneva Conventions.

[reprehensor]

9. Hopefully...

They'll put in a tennis court or pool table or something in the new camps. No? How about a foosball table?

[Say_What]

10. Related: Guantanamo may free children

Notice it says "may"

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The commander of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp has told the BBC the US military is hoping to release children it is holding there.

The BBC's Gordon Corera, in Guantanamo Bay, says the US's interviews with the three children - aged between 13 and 15 - reveal they may have been coerced into fighting in Afghanistan.

General Geoffrey Miller who leads operations at the camp is seeking to have the children released in recognition of their age and co-operation, our correspondent says.

"These juvenile enemy combatants were impressed, were kidnapped into terrorism. They have given us some very valuable intelligence. We are very close to making a recommendation on their transfer back to their home countries," General Miller said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3172617.stm