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Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (Spanish: Base Naval de la Bahía de Guantánamo), officially known as Naval Station Guantanamo Bay or NSGB, (also called GTMO, pronounced Gitmo / ˈ ɡ ɪ t m oʊ / GIT-moh as jargon by members of the U.S. military [1]) is a United States military base occupying a location on 45 square miles (117 km 2) of land and water [2] on the shore of Guantánamo Bay at the ...
Guantanamo Bay from satellite. Guantánamo Bay (Spanish: Bahía de Guantánamo, [baˈia ðe ɣwãnˈtanamo]) is a bay in Guantánamo Province at the southeastern end of Cuba.It is the largest harbor on the south side of the island and it is surrounded by steep hills which create an enclave that is cut off from its immediate hinterland.
Guantanamo Bay officials have reported 41 suicide attempts by 25 detainees since the U.S. began taking prisoners to the base in January 2002. [117] Defense lawyers contend the number of suicide attempts is higher. [117] On 10 June 2006 three detainees were found dead, who, according to the DoD, "killed themselves in an apparent suicide pact."
Naval Station Guantanamo Bay has been used by the U.S. since 1898, when U.S. forces used the area in the Spanish-American War. According to the Navy, a lease for 45 square miles of land and water ...
About 200 US Marines have been dispatched to Guantanamo Bay to prepare the facility for the new influx of detainees, and at least 500 are expected to be there within days.
The first group of about 10 migrants was sent to Guantanamo Bay on a military aircraft on Tuesday. A second flight departed the U.S. on Thursday, a U.S. official said.
Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom is the title of a 2004 book by Victoria Brittain (a former Guardian foreign editor) and novelist Gillian Slovo (ISBN 1-84002-474-7). Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom is the title of a 2004 play, based upon interviews with the families of men detained in Guantanamo Bay, by the same authors.
Prisoner lifted by 115th MPB personnel at Guantanamo Bay detainment camp, January 2002. Camp X-Ray was originally built during Operation Sea Signal to house "excludables" in the mid-1990s when Fidel Castro allowed any Cuban wishing to do so, to cross through the Cuban-operated minefields and enter the base. Excludables were held in Camp X-ray ...