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The Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, including the detention camp, is operated by the Joint Task Force Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO) of the Southern Command of the Department of Defense (DoD). [30] The main detention compound is Camp Delta , which replaced the temporary Camp X-Ray in April 2002, with other compounds including Camp Echo , Camp Iguana , and ...
The Joint Detention Group is one of the components of the Task Force. It is the organization assigned to guarding the captives, and maintaining camp security. [7] The guards within the Joint Detention Group come from the United States Army and the United States Navy. In 2009, guards outnumbered prisoners in Guantanamo by more than five to one.
The Guantanamo Bay detention center was established by the administration of George W. Bush at an American military base in Cuba in 2002. The establishment of the prison was aimed at depriving detainees of the post-9/11 “war on terror” of the constitutional rights they would enjoy on US soil. [6]
President Joe Biden made it an early goal of his administration to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, also known as GTMO, but the US made only marginal progress in moving the prisoners ...
An obscure records request, an ACLU lawsuit, and the 9/11 trial could finally shed light on what the CIA was doing at Guantánamo’s mysterious Camp 7, writes Josh Marcus
The United States and Cuba have had a tense relationship over the past 55 years. While things have gradually gotten better, it wasn't until recently that Americans were able to legally travel to ...
Name Other name(s) Detained Country Notes 1: Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al-Bahlul: Abu Anas al-Makki: 2002: Yemen: Convicted in 2008 of conspiring with al-Qaeda, soliciting murder and providing material support for terrorism, and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Camp Delta is a permanent American detainment camp at Guantanamo Bay that replaced the temporary facilities of Camp X-Ray. Its first facilities were built between 27 February and mid-April 2002 by Navy Seabees , Marine Engineers, and workers from Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root .