EXCLUSIVE | NAVY BASE

Navy plans $40 million fiber-optic link to Guantánamo base

The $40 million project will put an underwater cable from the base in southeast Cuba through the Windward Passage to an undisclosed link in South Florida.

GUANTANAMO

Base DJs riff Fidel Castro for fun, not profits

Its motto is ‘Rockin’ in Fidel’s Backyard,’ although its on air jingle is more discrete. For listeners on the Guantánamo base, the station offers a little levity with the serious mission.

Web Extra | A prison camps primer

The Pentagon has built a series of facilities at Guantánamo Bay since it inaugurated its offshore detention and interrogation center for terrorist suspects in January 2002 by airlifting captives to remote Cuba from Bagram, Afghanistan.

Environment

Guantánamo is going green

Better known for its experiment in offshore detention, interrogation and military justice, Guantánamo is also a lab for environmental exploration.

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.

Guantanamo

Military feeding captives day and night in Ramadan

For all but 46 of the 171 captives, this year marks a decade of Ramadans at Guant¨¢namo. Military data suggest some have lost their faith.

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.

GUANTANAMO BAY

Images provide intimate look at Guantánamo captives

A collection of Red Cross photos gives a rare glimpse inside the prison camps that President Barack Obama wants to close.

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.

U.S. plan for Guantánamo prison camp detainees: Divide and conquer

The president wants U.S. trials for some and transfer abroad for others as part of his plan to close the prison camps at Guantánamo Bay.

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.