US opens new Guantanamo camp jail

US opens new Guantanamo camp jail
Global Research, December 9, 2006
BBC - 2006-12-08


The US has begun moving terror suspects detained at Guantanamo Bay into a new $37m (£19m) maximum-security prison.

Forty-two prisoners were transferred from another high-security facility on the US naval base in eastern Cuba, the Associated Press reported. The new 178-cell prison will allow commanders to close the wire-fence camp originally built for early detainees.

The US holds some 430 men at Guantanamo Bay on suspicion of links to al-Qaeda or the Taleban, most without charge. UN human rights investigators and foreign governments have called on the US government to close the entire detention centre.

But the new facility has been built to provide more permanent secure accommodation for those judged to be "enemy combatants" and detained by the US military.

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20061209&articleId=4108

manacled Middle Easterners would escape into Cuba or that a rescue ship from Saudi Arabla would land and free them. When we all suspect it is another money source for Cheney and friends.

And a new toy to test new theories of running prisons. Tasar's built into cellS with push buttons from a central office?

Does the design include a prayer room? Has it been furnished with prayer rugs from home countries? Pardon my cynicism.

Instead of closing down we build up.

When all these men are gone, the next batch of Haitian refugees will be parked in more comfort. Pardon my cynicism.

This made me think of this old story. After it was originally reported on i didn't hear anymore about it. I wonder what came of it.

...so these people being held for years without charges can't even talk to each other.

The greatest country in the world.
Pardon me while I choke back the bile.

We lead the world in prisons, weapons and cancer causing chemicals.

I never thought that at 52 I would be living in such a fucked up country.
When I was 10 or 11 - the future held so much promise.

Not any more.


:nuke: :scared: :thumbsdown: :shrug: :cry: :banghead: :hide: :yoiks:

the article, which states Haliburton built the camp is dated, Saturday, July 27, 2002, goes on to say "No prisoners have been charged, but some could eventually face military trials." Still, many U.S. citizens detained there have not been charged with any crime.

I highly recommend this film. The Busholini Regime has commited War Crimes and is continuing to do so.

There are also Secret Prisons.

Halliburton to Build New Cells at Guantanamo Base
by Charles Aldinger
 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Halliburton Co. has been awarded a $9.7 million contract to build an additional 204-cell detention camp at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to hold additional suspected al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners, the Pentagon said on Friday.

The move will expand the high-security prison on the base, where hundreds of such "detainees" from Afghanistan are already being held in 612 small cells.

The prison at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station has played a major part in the U.S. war on terrorism declared after September's attacks on America in which more than 3,000 people died. No prisoners have been charged, but some could eventually face military trials.

Brown and Root Services, an engineering division of Halliburton, will build the additional 6-by-8-foot cells on the windward side of the remote U.S. base at the southeastern tip of Cuba, the Pentagon said.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0727-02.htm

Do you suppose they just got generous and increased the wages of the workers? (Wanna buy a bridge?)

In the meantime, the 204-cell prison became a 178-cell prison. Had to make room for sky-boxes, I guess. :puke:

That's not just "cost overruns" ... that's plunder. The biggest criminals aren't locked up at Gitmo!

:grr:

"The work is expected to be completed by October. But the Pentagon suggested on Friday that the facility could grow even more and that the contract could eventually total as much as $300 million if additional options were exercised over the next four years."

..."But the Pentagon suggested on Friday that the facility could grow even more and that the contract could eventually total as much as $300 million if additional options were exercised over the next four years. "