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	CNN.com - Annan: Shut Guantanamo prison camp - Feb 17, 2006
		In a report out Thursday, U.N. experts said the United States should close the Guantanamo Bay camp "without further delay" and either try the roughly 500 detainees held there or release them.
		But he said the prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay can't be held "in perpetuity" and need to be "given a chance to explain themselves."
		The 54-page report concluded that prisoners held in Guantanamo, most of whom were captured in the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, should be able to challenge the legality of their detention before a judicial body and be released if no grounds for imprisonment are found.
	www.cnn.com /2006/US/02/16/un.guantanamo/index.html (1042 words)

	Guantanamo Bay [GTMO] "GITMO"
		The primary mission of Guantanamo Bay is to serve as a strategic logistics base for the Navy’s Atlantic Fleet and to support counter drug operations in the Caribbean.
		Guantanamo Bay, located on the southeast coast of the island of Cuba about 500 statute miles southeast of Miami, Florida, is approached via the Windward Passage from the north or the Caribbean Sea from the south.
		The deep bay is sheltered by the nearby Cuzco Hills (elevations to 495 ft) to the south and east and by mountains to the north.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/guantanamo-bay.htm (2004 words)

	Guantanamo Bay Holiday Camp Guide, Cuba
		With holiday makers from 42 countries, Guantanamo Bay is a cosmopolitan vacation spot and when the camp entertainers (affectionately known as ‘guards’) aren’t insisting on silence, you’ll be able to trade stories from the road with a whole host of interesting people.
		Guantanamo Bay Holiday Camp is famous for never sleeping and, indeed, the lights are left on all night, often with accompanying heavy metal music.
		Guantanamo Bay is an experience you’ll never forget, a little pocket of all that’s good about America, nestled in the Caribbean.
	www.roadjunky.com /guide/1199/guantanamo-bay-holiday-camp-guide-cuba (738 words)

	Guantanamo Camp Xray - SourceWatch
		Guantanamo is central to the Bush Administration's strategy to prevent judicial review of the legal status of prisoners.
		Whitewashing Guantanamo in the UK "The innocence of (Moazzam) Begg, the Tipton Three and the other British detainees who have come home is a part of the story of Guantanamo that no official wants people to hear," writes Victoria Brittain, the co-author with Begg of the book Enemy Combatant.
		Following three suicides by detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in June 2006, referred to as "the gulag of our times" by Amnesty International, are apparently not what they would seem.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Guantanamo_Camp_Xray (1433 words)

	CNN.com - Congressmen tour Guantanamo camp - March 15, 2002
		GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (CNN) -- House members Friday toured the Guantanamo Bay naval base, where the U.S. military is interrogating 300 suspected Taliban and al Qaeda members captured in the war in Afghanistan.
		Michael Lehnert, the commander of the detention facility set up at Guantanamo Bay, and were quickly ushered from the naval base airport to a waiting ferry.
		A Guantanamo Bay spokesman said the modular units will be walled, with screened windows, and the 300 detainees at Camp X-Ray will be moved to the new camp soon.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/americas/03/15/guantanamo.tour/index.html (429 words)

	Prisoner 345: Campaign to free Sami Haj held in Guantanamo \| Campaign to free Sami Haj an Al Jazeera cameraman held in ...
		The health of an Al Jazeera cameraman being held in the US prison at Guantanamo Bay is deteriorating further as he remains on hunger strike, according to a Mauritanian inmate who was recently released.
		In a letter to Guantanamo detainee Sami al-Hajj, a copy of which was released by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in New York, Alan Johnston thanked al-Hajj for his appeal to the Gaza kidnappers to release him earlier this year.
		Doha: The wife of Guantanamo detainee Sami Al Haj, a Sudanese cameraman for the Al Jazeera network held since January 2002, said her husband's mental condition had deteriorated and called yesterday on relief and human rights agencies to mobilise his liberation.
	www.prisoner345.net (937 words)

	Joint Task Force Guantanamo - Honor Bound to Defend Freedom!
		GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, Nov. 15, 2007 – A Canadian-born detainee held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, since his capture on the battlefield in Afghanistan at age 15, was arraigned by a military commission on Nov. 8.
		During the arraignment of Omar Khadr, a 21-year-old detainee who was captured in 2002, his attorneys deferred the opportunity to enter a plea for the charges against him or to raise any motions until a later date.
		GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba - Josh Holsclaw, Louis Kline and Wilfred Etienne show what it means to be "Army Strong" pulling a HUMVEE to victory in the NEX/MWR Customer Appreciation HUMVEE Pull competition Nov. 3.
	www.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil (224 words)

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	The New York Times > U.S. > Slide Show > A Portable Court Complex Under Construction at Guantánamo Bay ...
		The New York Times > U.S. > Slide Show > A Portable Court Complex Under Construction at Guantánamo Bay > Slide 1 of 11
		A Portable Court Complex Under Construction at Guantánamo Bay
		A prefabricated, portable court complex under construction in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has been dubbed Camp Justice by the Air National Guard unit that is assembling it.
	www.nytimes.com /slideshow/2007/10/13/us/20071013GITMO_index.html (67 words)

	More On Cuban Birds - New!
		Guantanamo Bay is located on the southeastern "foot" of Cuba.
		The leeward (west) side of the bay is comprised of grasslands, tidal flats, palm-scrub forests, and mangrove forests that border the bay and the Guantanamo River.
		The bay and coastal flora are nearly identical to that of the leeward side.
	uplandsandpiper1.tripod.com /id42.htm (1414 words)

	U.S. military transfers first detainees to new prison at Guantanamo Bay - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — The U.S. military has begun transferring detainees to a new, high-security prison at Guantanamo Bay and will close one of the first detention camps built to hold men swept up in the war on terrorism.
		About 430 men are currently held at Guantanamo on suspicion of links to al-Qaeda or the Taliban, including about 100 who have been cleared for release and are awaiting transfer to another country.
		Guantanamo officials said the design also makes the prison safer by limiting prisoners' ability to communicate.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-12-08-guantanamo_x.htm (842 words)

	Historical Look at Guantánamo Bay (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The first U.S. presence on Guantánamo Bay was a Marine battalion that camped there on June 10 1898, and the first American casualties of the Spanish-Cuban-American War were two marines killed there the following day.
		The agreement was forced on the new Cuban government through the Platt Amendment, which gave the U.S. authority to interfere in Cuban affairs.
		The Lease Agreement signed on February 16 1903, granted the U.S. "the right to use and occupy the waters adjacent to said areas of land and water… and generally to do any and all things necessary to fit the premises for use as coaling or naval stations only, and for no other purpose."
	www.historyofcuba.com /history/funfacts/guantan.htm (709 words)

	Guantanamo Bay prisoner 'tried to commit suicide a dozen times' - Independent Online Edition > Americas (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, held without charge for more than four years, has tried to kill himself a dozen times in an attempt to escape the misery and isolation of his incarceration.
		His 12 attempts to take his life - either by hanging, slitting his wrists or a combination of both - account for a third of all the suicide attempts by prisoners at Guantanamo Bay reported by the US authorities.
		A spokesman for Joint Task Force Guantanamo said he could not comment on specific prisoners but said one detainee had tried to take his life on 11 March.
	news.independent.co.uk /world/americas/article360403.ece (778 words)

	NPR : Detainees at Guantanamo Bay
		March 31, 2007 · Guantanamo detainee David Hicks has become the first person to be convicted under the new Military Commissions Act.
		March 27, 2007 · A military judge and lawyers meet at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to work out the sentencing of David Hicks, an Australian citizen who has pleaded guilty to providing material support for terrorism.
		The transcript of a military hearing held last Saturday at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was released by the Pentagon.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4711397 (856 words)

	After Guantanamo, a new limbo begins - The Boston Globe
		TIRANA, Albania -- Ahktar Qassim Basit says he is not angry about the four years he spent as a US prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, before his captors mumbled a brief apology and flew him to this drab Balkan capital to begin a new life as a refugee.
		It is this new life in Albania, Basit and other former Guantanamo detainees say, that is driving them to desperation.
		With President Bush scheduled to visit Albania today, the Uighurs and three other former Guantanamo detainees here are asking whether the United States, having flown them here in shackles, might do anything to help get them the housing, jobs, and other support they were told to expect.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2007/06/10/after_guantanamo_a_new_limbo_begins (750 words)

	Don't Cry for Thee, Guantánamo
		They have extraordinary health care, the same as U.S. troops get; their menus accommodate their cultural and religious preferences; they have exercise opportunities; they are provided liturgical necessities and daily opportunities for religious expression; they have the ability to send and receive mail.
		Although the law of armed conflict establishes the right to detain combatants, lawful or unlawful, for the duration of the conflict, the United States has no interest in keeping a Guantánamo detainee any longer than necessary, as borne out by the releases and transfers that already have occurred.
		The purpose of the detention at Guantánamo Bay is to defend ourselves, to keep Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters from attacking us.
	www.eriksvane.com /guanta.htm (1255 words)

	FBI Agents Allege Abuse of Detainees at Guantanamo Bay (washingtonpost.com)
		They suggest that extremely aggressive interrogation techniques were more widespread at Guantanamo Bay than was acknowledged by military officials.
		The documents also make it clear that some personnel at Guantanamo Bay believed they were relying on authority from senior officials in Washington to conduct aggressive interrogations.
		The government is holding about 550 people detained in the war on terrorism at a prison on the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A14936-2004Dec20.html (702 words)

	Human Rights Watch: United States: Guantanamo Detainees
		Former Guantanamo detainees who were sent home to Russia in 2004 experienced torture and other abuse despite Moscow's pledge to the US government that they would be treated humanely, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.
		Former Guantanamo detainees who were sent home to Russia in 2004 experienced torture and other abuse despite Moscow’s pledge to the US government that they would be treated humanely.
		Two defense lawyers for Guantanamo detainee David Hicks were barred from representing their client yesterday, highlighting the failure of US military commissions to meet fair trial standards, Human Rights Watch said today.
	www.hrw.org /doc/?t=usa_gitmo (1359 words)

	Guantanamo Bay News - Topix
		A suspected al-Qaida terrorist was captured in East Africa and taken to the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
		Whitman said he was transferred to Guantanamo this week after being captured in the last couple of weeks in the Horn of Africa.
		Khadr had been classified as an 'enemy combatant' by a military panel years earlier at Guantanamo Bay, but because he was not classified as an 'alien unlawful enemy combatant,' Army Col. Peter Brownback said he had no choice but to throw the case out.
	www.topix.net /news/guantanamo-bay (968 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Guantanamo
		At that point, 232 detainees had left Guantanamo Bay: 149 were released and 83 were transferred to other governments.
		In May 2005, Newsweek magazine ran a story about U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay desecrating the Qur'an to get inmates to talk, including placing the holy book on a toilet and, in one case, flushing it down the toilet.
		The commander of the Guantanamo Bay detention centre said there were also 15 cases of detainees abusing their own Qur'ans, including "attempting to flush a Qur'an down the toilet and urinating on the Qur'an."
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/guantanamo (1613 words)

	Invisible men. - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine
		It concludes: "The United States government should close the Guantanamo Bay detention facilities without further delay" and recommends the detainees be released or tried.
		But as Hegland reports, by the fall of 2002 it was already common knowledge in the government that "fewer than 10 percent of Guantanamo's prisoners were high-value terrorist operatives," according to Michael Scheuer, who headed the agency's Bin Laden unit from 1999 until he resigned in 2004.
		The only real justification for the continued disgrace that is Guantanamo is that the government refuses to admit it's made a mistake.
	www.slate.com /id/2136422 (1600 words)

	The Compassionate Conservatives - Guantánamo Bay
		Serving as a permanent home-away-from-home for wayward children and other "enemy combatants", Guantánamo was the first bold experiment in how to handle prisoners in the indefinite War on Terror® without having to be held accountable to rules of international law.
		God might bless America and our worldwide network of secret jails, but apparently He doesn't care too much about those lost souls at Guantánamo Bay, including obvious-non-terrorist Sean Baker who was beaten within an inch of his life during an "interrogation" training exercise.
		Further debunking Bush`s lame "bad apples" explanation is the Pentagon's infamous "torture memo", penned by Bush buddy Jay Bybee who provides legal arguments on how to circumvent laws that ban torture.
	www.peak.org /~greglief/cc/Guantanamo_Bay.html (415 words)

	Guantanamo high-tech court complex prefab, portable
		The complex, including the tent city dubbed Camp Justice, may be the perfect architecture for the long-running limbo that is Guantanamo.
		Officials from President Bush on down have said they would like to close Guantanamo, yet the administration is just as eager to show progress in trying some of the 330 detainees, most of whom have been held for years without formal charges.
		Neal Sonnett, a Miami lawyer who has been an observer at Guantanamo for the American Bar Association, said given the have-court-will-travel aspect of the construction, "I would read it that there is not a high level of confidence that Guantanamo is going to be around as a detention facility."
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/14/MN7HSPN2A.DTL&feed=rss.news (1036 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Americas \| Guantanamo Bay inmates 'tortured'
		The report levels a raft of allegations against the US Treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay constitutes torture in some cases and violates international law, a leaked UN draft report says.
		The report suggests some of the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay meets the definition of torture under the UN Convention Against Torture.
		The camp at Guantanamo Bay was set up in 2002 to hold foreign terror suspects, many of them captured in Afghanistan.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/4710966.stm (481 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Close Guantanamo Prison
		Guantánamo Bay came under United States control in 1903 when Cuba was occupied by the US army after its intervention in Cuba's war of independence against Spain.
		The 1903 Agreement on Coaling and Naval Stations gave the United States the right to use Guantánamo Bay "exclusively as coaling or naval stations, and for no other purpose." Twenty-one years later, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a new treaty with the Republic of Cuba, which abrogated the Platt Amendment and the 1903 treaty.
		Additionally, article III of the 1934 treaty provides that the Republic of Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "for coaling and naval stations." Nowhere in either treaty did Cuba give the United States the right to utilize Guantánamo Bay as a prison camp.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2005/052305B.shtml (1276 words)

	Many Held at Guantanamo Not Likely Terrorists - Los Angeles Times
		WASHINGTON -- The United States is holding dozens of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay who have no meaningful connection to Al Qaeda or the Taliban, and were sent to the maximum-security facility over the objections of intelligence officers in Afghanistan who had recommended them for release, according to military sources with direct knowledge of the matter.
		At least 59 detainees -- nearly 10% of the prison population at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- were deemed to be of no intelligence value after repeated interrogations in Afghanistan.
		Michael E. Dunlavey, the operational commander at Guantanamo Bay until October, traveled to Afghanistan in the spring to complain that too many "Mickey Mouse" detainees were being sent to the already crowded facility, sources said.
	www.latimes.com /la-na-gitmo22dec22,0,2294365.story (896 words)

	JURIST - Guantanamo
		U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay has a unique posture in the Western Hemisphere in that it is the oldest U.S. base outside the continental United States, and the only one in a country that does not enjoy an open political relationship with the United States.
		Located in the Oriente Province on the southeast corner of Cuba, the base is about 400 air miles from Miami, Fla. In February 1903, the United States leased 45 square miles of land and water at Guantanamo Bay for use as a coaling (fueling) station.
		[JURIST] A former Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee was convicted by a Tunisian court Wednesday on charges of belonging to a terrorist organization.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /currentawareness/guantanamo.php (712 words)

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