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	Guantanamo Bay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Guantanamo Bay is located in Guantánamo Province at the south-eastern end of Cuba (19°54′ N 75°9′ W).
		The bay was originally named Guantanamo by the Taino and renamed Cumberland when the English took it in the first part of the 18th century during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
		Guantanamo Bay was mentioned in the James Bond movie GoldenEye (1995), which was, however, shot in Puerto Rico.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guantanamo_Bay,_Cuba (6523 words)

	Guantanamo Bay article - Guantanamo Bay Cuba Guantánamo Province United States Naval History Detention - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Guantanamo Bay (abbreviated as GTMO or "Gitmo") is located at the south-eastern end of Cuba, in the Guantánamo Province, at 19° 54' N. Lat., 75° 9' W Lon.
		The base was established in 1898, when the U.S. obtained control of Cuba from Spain at the end of the Spanish-American War.
		The peculiar legal status of Guantanamo Bay is a factor in the use of Guantanamo as a dtertion center.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Guantanamo_Bay (747 words)

	Why War? Keywords: Guantanamo Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		of its kind, a federal appeals court today decided that a detainee at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba should be granted a court hearing in the United States inqu...
		Guantanamo Bay (abbreviated as GTMO or "Gitmo") is located at the south-eastern end of Cuba, in the Guantánamo Province, and contains a United States Naval Base (116 km
		People detained at Guantanamo are legally outside of the United States and do not have the Constitutional rights that they would have if they were held on United States territory (see Cuban American Bar Ass'n, Inc. v.
	www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/places/guantanamo_bay (961 words)

	Guantanamo Bay -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The peculiar legal status of Guantanamo Bay was a factor in the choice of Guantanamo as a detention center.
		Guantanamo Bay was also featured in (Click link for more info and facts about Bad Boys II) Bad Boys II (2003).
		Guantanamo Bay was mentioned in the 1995 (British secret operative 007 in novels by Ian Fleming) James Bond movie (Large-headed swift-flying diving duck of arctic regions) GoldenEye, which was, however, shot in (A self-governing commonwealth associated with the United States occupying the island of Puerto Rico) Puerto Rico.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gu/guantanamo_bay.htm (1156 words)

	Guantanamo Bay
		Beginning in 2002 the base has been used to house suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners captured in Afghanistan and elsewhere at Camp X-Ray, Camp Delta and Camp Echo, and has also been used in the past to house Cuban and Haitian refugees who have been intercepted on the high seas.
		The peculiar legal status of Guantanamo Bay was a factor in these uses.
		Bush with the majority decision and ruled that prisoners in Guantanamo have access to American courts, citing the fact that the United States has exclusive control over Guantanamo Bay.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/g/gu/guantanamo_bay.html (583 words)

	Camp Delta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Camp Delta, Echo, X-Ray, and Iguana are prisons at Guantanamo Bay.
		The UK's Guardian newspaper [9] reported that a team of lawyers was dismissed after complaining that the rules for the forthcoming military commissions prohibited them from properly representing their clients.
		In October 2005, the report focused on pretrial detention of suspects in the War on Terror, including those held in Guantanamo Bay and Afghanistan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Camp_X-Ray (3501 words)

	GTMO celebrates 100th anniversary
		030221-N-4936C-009 Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (Feb. 21, 2003) -- Capt. Robert E. Buehn, Commanding Officer of U.S. Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, salutes during the playing of the National Anthem as the Naval Station commemorates the one hundredth anniversary of the lease agreement between Cuba and the United States.
		GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (NNS) -- A special ceremony was held Feb. 21 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the lease agreement between the United States and Cuba.
		U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay (GTMO), is the oldest U.S. base overseas and the only one in a communist country.
	www.news.navy.mil /search/display.asp?story_id=5987 (600 words)

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| Destination Guantanamo Bay
		The Cold War may be a receding memory for most of the world, but it remains a daily reality for US forces in Guantanamo Bay, a naval base in Cuba which the US leases from the island's communist government.
		The Americans had wanted the bay, one of Cuba's best natural harbours, since the first battalion of Marines landed there in 1898 during the Spanish-American War.
		Nevertheless, tensions have eased dramatically since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, when John F Kennedy blockaded Cuba to force the withdrawal of Soviet nuclear missiles.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/1731704.stm (681 words)

	CBS News \| Court Clash Over Gitmo \| April 20, 2004 20:12:42
		The prisoners in Guantanamo Bay were mostly picked up in the fighting that toppled the Taliban government in Afghanistan and Pakistan in the months following the Sept. 11 attacks.
		The Supreme Court is hearing arguments about whether foreign prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay can use the U.S. court systems to attempt to win their freedom.
		The Pentagon defended its treatment of the 650 prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay for nearly three years, revealing just how dangerous some of them are, David Martin reports.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/11/30/terror/main586001.shtml (975 words)

	Online NewsHour: Terror Suspects -- December 18, 2003
		The arrests of three men who worked at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have raised concerns about the extent of possible espionage at the detention center.
		That's essentially what's happening in Guantanamo Bay and the government is treating members of the al-Qaida and Taliban as prisoners in an armed conflict.
		I think on Guantanamo Bay they will uphold the D.C. Circuit and say the treatment of enemy combatants outside the territory of the United States is just something federal courts aren't going to get involved in.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/terrorism/july-dec03/terror_12-18.html (2016 words)

	Guantanamo Bay - Camp Delta
		On August 5, 2002, 34 suspected terrorists arrived at Guantanamo Bay, by an Air Force C-17 military aircraft, thus bringing to 598 the total number of detainees being housed at Camp Delta.
		An additional 204 cells are to be added to facility with the work to be finished by October 1, 2002, thus bringing the number of cells in the compound to a total of 816.
		Family housing facilities of Tierra Kay at Guantanamo Bay have also been refurbished, allowing many troops to move into those living quarters, and thus freeing up some of the SEAhuts at Camp America and Bulkeley for storage and office space.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/guantanamo-bay_delta.htm (2840 words)

	Guantanamo Camp Xray - SourceWatch
		U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay is the oldest U.S. base overseas and the only one in Cuba.
		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 is central to the Bush Administration's strategy to prevent judicial review of the legal status of prisoners.
	www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=Guantanamo_Camp_Xray (1126 words)

	Prisoners of War at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I am concerned about alleged ill-treatment of prisoners in transit and in Guantanamo, including reports that they were shackled, hooded and sedated during transfer, their beards were forcibly shaved, and that they are housed in small cages in Guantanamo that do not protect them against the elements.
		The US has obligations under international law to ensure respect for the human rights of all persons in their custody - including the duty to treat them humanely and ensure that they have recourse to fair proceedings, regardless of the nature of the crimes they are suspected of having committed.
		We consider that those who are held in Guantanamo, captured during the war in Afghanistan, should be treated as prisoners of war.
	www.ichrdd.ca /english/urgentActions/prisonersGuantanamo.html (370 words)

	CUBA NEWS CUBAN NEWS \| HavenWorks.com/world/cuba capital: Havana, Republic of Cuba, Republica de Cuba
		Magazine says a source for its story about desecration of the holy book at Guantanamo Bay is now unsure where he read the allegations.."...
		"The criminal proceedings against Captain James Yee, the former Muslim chaplain at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, charged with mishandling classified data, fell into confusion and stalled as prosecutors asked for extra time to determine whether documents found in Yee's luggage when he was leaving the base were, in fact, classified."...
		"An Australian detainee at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba last night became the first prisoner there to be given a lawyer, a strong indication that he is on track to be the first alleged al Qaeda fighter in detention to go before a military tribunal, according to informed sources."...
	havenworks.com /world/cuba (3052 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 (787 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Guantánamo torture and humiliation still going on, says shackled Briton
		Fresh allegations about a regime of torture and humiliation inflicted on detainees by their American captors at Guantánamo Bay have been made by a Briton still held there, according to Foreign Office documents seen by the Guardian.
		The claims by Martin Mubanga, from London, are the latest to surface from the prison where the US holds 550 Muslim men it claims are terrorists in conditions that have sparked worldwide condemnation.
		That period of being beyond the rule of law had now ended, he added, as a result of a supreme court decision allowing the detainees to challenge their incarceration in court.
	www.guardian.co.uk /guantanamo/story/0,13743,1371609,00.html (843 words)

	NZOOM - ONE News - World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Five Britons being held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba will be sent home within a few weeks and may face arrest in the UK, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said.
		Hicks, an alleged Taliban fighter who was arrested in Afghanistan, has already been named as one of the first of the 600 Guantanamo Bay detainees to appear before a US military commission.
		Five other Guantanamo prisoners - a Spaniard and four Saudi Arabians - were recently released and returned to their countries for detention or possible prosecution there.
	onenews.nzoom.com /onenews_detail/0,1227,256759-1-9,00.html (930 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Special report: Guantánamo Bay
		August 6: The United States is negotiating the transfer of nearly 70% of the prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay back to their home countries in an attempt to dramatically reduce the number of "enemy combatants" in US custody, it emerged yesterday.
		July 16: A federal appeals court yesterday ruled that a Guantánamo Bay prisoner could be tried by military tribunal, reversing a lower court decision to halt the controversial proceedings on the grounds they were unlawful.
		April 22 2002: The questioning of al-Qaida prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba has descended into farce, with inexperienced interrogators routinely outwitted by detainees, sources on the island said yesterday.
	www.guardian.co.uk /guantanamo/0,13743,1000982,00.html (907 words)

	CNN.com - Affidavit: Guantanamo translator had CD labeled 'Secret' - Oct. 1, 2003
		A civilian translator who worked with the U.S. military based at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, appeared in a Boston, Massachusetts courtroom Tuesday, a day after he was arrested with materials alleged to be classified information.
		DHS said in a written statement that Mehalba carried with him military identification as a contract linguist for the United States in Guantanamo Bay.
		Al Halabi served nine months at Guantanamo Bay as a translator and was arrested about seven weeks before Yee was taken into custody.
	www.cnn.com /2003/US/09/30/guantanamo.probe (768 words)

	Human Rights Watch: United States: Guantanamo Detainees
		The Federal District Court for the District of Columbia faulted the Department of Defense for not properly determining the legal status of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay and for imposing rules of evidence that violate fair trial standards.
		This week’s hearings at Guantanamo Bay highlighted serious deficiencies in the U.S. military commission members’ understanding of the laws of war and principles of criminal justice, Human Rights Watch said today.
		The military commission proceedings against the first four detainees at Guantanamo Bay were mired in confusion because of fundamentally flawed legal procedures and inadequate interpreters, Human Rights Watch said today.
	hrw.org /doc?t=usa_gitmo (1188 words)

	Guantánamo Bay - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Two detainees are escorted to a medium security facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
		The detention camp at the US Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay in Cuba has become a symbol of the US administration’s refusal to put human rights and the rule of law at the heart of its response to the atrocities of 11 September 2001.
		As evidence of torture and widespread cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment mounts, it is more urgent than ever that the US Government bring the Guantánamo Bay detention camp and any other facilities it is operating outside the USA into full compliance with international law and standards.
	web.amnesty.org /pages/guantanamobay-index-eng (394 words)

	The Other Guantanamo Bay - Worldpress.org
		Though almost three years have passed since hundreds of captives from the Afghan theater first arrived at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, interrogators say they are still getting good intelligence on al-Qaeda — without the use of torture.
		In early November, the Associated Press got hold of a Pentagon report documenting cases of abuse at Guantanamo — all of which were fairly minor episodes provoked by the detainees themselves.
		United States, that the leased naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is effectively under American sovereignty, so detainees could bring suits in US federal courts challenging their detention.
	www.worldpress.org /Americas/1981.cfm (3087 words)

	Strange Loops - Guantanamo Bay Prisoners
		The use of Guantanamo is carefully calculated - it is technically Cuban territory, leased to the US military - and if the detainees are never brought to American soil, the administration claims they can have no recourse to appeals under U.S. federal law.
		Jamal al-Harith, a British captive freed from Guantanamo in March of 2003 after two years in confinement without being charged of any crime, says he was assaulted with fists, feet and batons after refusing a mystery injection.
		According to a September 2003 physical evaluation, "traumatic brain injury was due to [the] soldier playing [a] role of [a] detainee who was noncooperative and was being extracted from detention cell in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, during a training exercise." Baker also suffers from seizures caused by the beating.
	www.strange-loops.com /freexray.html (1967 words)

	USA: "Double jeopardy" for some Guantánamo detainees - Amnesty International
		Video: The mother of Abdel Aziz al-Sawaidi, who is detained in Guantanámo Bay, talks to an AI delegate about the suffering of his family.
		On 12 August 2004, United States Secretary of State Colin Powell said that the ethnic Uighurs in military custody in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, will not be returned to China.
		Held in isolating conditions, the detainees held in Guantánamo Bay have not been allowed to see lawyers or relatives, or to have access to any court.
	web.amnesty.org /pages/usa-070104-action-eng (318 words)

	LexisNexis U.S. Politics & World News, Hurricane Katrina Rita Wilma, President George Bush, Samuel Alito, Harriet ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The mother of a Canadian teenager charged with murder and held at Guantanamo Bay accused Americans of acting like gods yesterday and slammed Ottawa for doing nothing to help her son.
		The British prisoners at Guantanamo naval base slump on their cots, staring at nothing but the ceiling or the chain-link fence that confines them.
		TORONTO (CP) _ The mother of a Canadian teenager charged with murder and held at Guantanamo Bay accused Americans of acting like gods Tuesday and slammed Ottawa for doing nothing to help her son.
	www6.lexisnexis.com /publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayCiteList&orgId=574&topicId=100010243 (1208 words)

	Online NewsHour: Inside Guantanamo -- October 14, 2003
		Margaret Warner takes a look inside the U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the U.S. military is detaining "enemy combatants" in the war against terrorism.
		NEIL LEWIS: Remember, this is a strange place anyway, the naval base at Guantanamo Bay.
		And around it also there are soldiers who patrol in small groups usually of four, on hot, miserable Guantanamo days with green camouflage paint on their faces.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/military/july-dec03/gbay_10-14.html (1599 words)

	The Memory Hole > Deleted Material from the Website for Guantanamo Bay
		In the past year or so, the official Navy Website for the base at Guantanamo Bay (known as Gitmo) has removed some material.
		The transfer of custody from Afghanistan to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is all part of the global war on terrorism.
		Guantanamo Bay is preparing to receive up to 2,000 Al-Qaeda and Taliban detainees.
	www.thememoryhole.org /gitmo/gitmo-site.htm (2353 words)

	On Point : Breaches at Guantanamo Bay - Breaches at Guantanamo Bay
		Bewildering stories of espionage are tumbling out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
		Guantanamo Bay is supposed to be America's super terrorist lockup, where 680 prisoners, Al Qaeda and Taliban members, from 40 countries are being held.
		Both the chaplain and the translator talked extensively to Guantanamo prisoners, and may have known each other.
	www.onpointradio.org /shows/2003/09/20030924_a_main.asp (335 words)

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