by Matt Yurus & Noor Wazwaz | Jul 30, 2015 | GITMO, National Security
With President Obama renewing his vow to close detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Medill News Service traveled to the base and photographed the abandoned Camp X-Ray detention center. The military used Camp X-Ray from 1994 to 1996 to house...
by Ezra Kaplan | Jul 29, 2015 | GITMO, National Security
GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA – Camp X-Ray received the first prisoners in the War on Terror in January 2002. Suspected al-Qaida and Taliban fighters arrived shackled wearing orange jumpsuits, blackout goggles and face masks. They were on their way to eight by eight cube cells...
by Ezra Kaplan | Jul 29, 2015 | GITMO, National Security
GUANTANAMO NAVY BASE, CUBA — The July commission hearings for accused war criminal Abd al Hadi al Iraqi halted abruptly this week after the defendant decided he did not trust his assigned Pentagon Lawyers. Not a single one of the motions set to be argued was...
by Matt Yurus | Jul 27, 2015 | GITMO, Topics
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — On hold again: The Pentagon’s latest attempt to move forward with a military commission for an Iraqi detainee was abruptly canceled when the judge found that the accused’s defense attorney, Marine Lt. Col. Sean Gleason, was also...
by Matt Yurus & Noor Wazwaz | Jul 26, 2015 | GITMO, National Security
NAVAL BASE GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA — This isolated U.S. Navy base has many facilities and services to make life comfortable for the service members and their families stationed here. That includes a radio and TV broadcast facility holding more than 22,000 reel-to-reel...
by Noor Wazwaz | Jul 24, 2015 | GITMO, National Security
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