Guantanamo Bay Gets a New $750,000 Soccer Field Thanks to U.S. Taxpayers : The Guantanamo Files. In its latest release of classified US documents, WikiLeaks is shining the light of truth on a notorious icon of the Bush administration’s "War on Terror" — the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, which opened on January 11, 2002, and remains open under President Obama, despite his promise to close the much-criticized facility within a year of taking office.
In thousands of pages of documents dating from 2002 to 2008 and never seen before by members of the public or the media, the cases of the majority of the prisoners held at Guantánamo — 765 out of 779 in total — are described in detail in memoranda from JTF-GTMO, the Joint Task Force at Guantánamo Bay, to US Southern Command in Miami, Florida. These memoranda, known as Detainee Assessment Briefs (DABs), contain JTF-GTMO’s recommendations about whether the prisoners in question should continue to be held, or should be released (transferred to their home governments, or to other governments).
(Andy Worthington) 1. Personal information. Korgasm recorded live on 1/11/12 at 2:54 PM EST, Recorded live on my iPhone on 1/11/12 at 2:54 PM EST #closegitmo #occupydc Korgasm on USTREAM. Citizen Jo. Guantanamo Bay - USA. Gitmobynumbers_infographic. INFOGRAPHIC: Guantanamo by the Numbers. This Wednesday, January 11 marks 10 years since the first prisoners were sent to Guantánamo.
Over the last decade, the prison camp has become a symbol of injustice, abuse and disregard for the rule of law. Since it opened, almost 800 men have passed through Guantánamo’s cells. Today, 171 men remain imprisoned there; 89 of those men have been unanimously cleared by intelligence and military officials, but remain at the prison camp. A new ACLU infographic details this information, as well as other alarming facts and figures about Guantánamo. Click here to view the infographic. Guantánamo Forever?