WAR ON TERROR

Guantánamo: the most expensive prison on earth

The cost to house a captive at Guantánamo Bay is $800,000 per year, far in excess of other federal or state lockups.

CIA’s Bay of Pigs foreign policy laid bare

A recently released, and brutally honest, look at the run-up to the disastrous Bay of Pigs Operation focuses on the CIA’s prominent role.

Updated 6/28/2011

Who's still being held at Guantánamo

Until now, there has been no comprehensive list of who is still held at the Guantánamo detention center in Cuba. McClatchy determined who was still there using both sources and court records as well as secret intelligence files obtained by WikiLeaks and passed to McClatchy.

WikiLeaks: How U.S. tried to stop Spain's torture probe

The Obama administration turned to a Republican senator from Florida to deliver a message to the Spanish government: Don't indict former President George W. Bush's legal brain trust for alleged torture in the treatment of war on terror detainees or it will chill U.S.-Spanish relations. The Spanish responded with a lecture on the independence of the judiciary.

Commentary: For reporters, the rules at Guantánamo change daily

Guantánamo is a place the Pentagon likes to call the most transparent detention center on Earth. Hundreds of reporters have visited there, they say, since the first al Qaeda suspects arrived eight years ago. They skip the part about how few go back more than once — stymied by the sheer frustration at the rules, the hoops, the time, and the costs of doing basic journalism.

Jan. 22, 2010: Camp Delta

Foreign war-on-terror captives rose for pre-dawn prayers, as usual, in the mist-shrouded open-air compound called Camp 4 on Friday, Jan. 22, 2010, the day President Barack Obama had set as the deadline for closure of the prison camps at the U.S. Navy Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

SECOND IN A TWO-PART SERIES

Guantánamo base awaits uncertain future

These are days of uncertainty at Guantánamo Bay -- for the prisoners, contractors and sailors who will remain.

FIRST IN A TWO-PART SERIES

Townsfolk leery of holding terrorism suspects

The anxiety of locals who live near the brig at Charleston, S.C., one possible place Guantánamo detainees may be sent, is typical of opposition nationwide.

Alleged 9/11 architect: Martyr me

A group of alleged senior al Qaeda leaders -- held secretly by the United States and interrogated since 2003 -- appeared Thursday before a war court judge.

'Platinum' captives held at off-limits Gitmo camp

The Pentagon has placed its newest camp strictly out of bounds for both media and military defense attorneys.

'Worst of the worst' captives now back home

A Miami Herald investigation found that six years after Guantánamo Bay received its first 20 detainees from Afghanistan, seven have been released.

Photos echo years later

In 2002, a Navy photographer captured the first Guantánamo detainees in shackles on their knees, creating an iconic image that still inspires protests.

IN THE PRISON CAMPS

Terror suspects' beards are safe now

In a practice that ended in May, guards at the prison camps cut Muslim captives' beards as a disciplinary measure. Captives said they saw it as an assault on Islam.

Captives rigged nooses

All four captives who killed themselves at the prison camps for suspected terrorists hanged themselves in their cells with craftily fashioned nooses, a senior officer said.

ISSUES and IDEAS

Guantánamo in pop culture

Fed by the Internet, the phenomenon has spread across the planet with blinding speed, transforming a place into an icon, perhaps like never before. Not Nuremberg. Not Pearl Harbor. Not the Watergate.

An Arts Sampler on Guantanamo

It's in books, films and poetry -- on the stage and in art installations

IN THE PRISON CAMPS

Captive commits suicide in cell

Almost a year after three captives at Guantánamo Bay hanged themselves, a Saudi man was found dead in his cell. U.S. authorities said it was suicide.

ISSUES and IDEAS

Leaving Guantanamo

As first prison camps admiral departs the Pentagon's showcase detention and interrogation center, he tells The Miami Herald: "The detainees ought to have the opportunity to visit with lawyers."

IN THE PRISON CAMPS

Terror inmates endure solitary routine

With most detainees living in windowless, steel and cement cells, life at the prison camps at Guantánamo has turned into a lockdown routine.