GUANTANAMO
Base DJs riff Fidel Castro for fun, not profits
Its motto is Rockin in Fidels 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.
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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.
Its motto is Rockin in Fidels 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.
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.
Better known for its experiment in offshore detention, interrogation and military justice, Guantánamo is also a lab for environmental exploration.
The cost to house a captive at Guantánamo Bay is $800,000 per year, far in excess of other federal or state lockups.
A recently released, and brutally honest, look at the run-up to the disastrous Bay of Pigs Operation focuses on the CIAs prominent role.
Here is a 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.
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.
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.
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.
A collection of Red Cross photos gives a rare glimpse inside the prison camps that President Barack Obama wants to close.
These are days of uncertainty at Guantánamo Bay -- for the prisoners, contractors and sailors who will remain.
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.
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.
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.
The Pentagon has placed its newest camp strictly out of bounds for both media and military defense attorneys.
A Miami Herald investigation found that six years after Guantánamo Bay received its first 20 detainees from Afghanistan, seven have been released.
In 2002, a Navy photographer captured the first Guantánamo detainees in shackles on their knees, creating an iconic image that still inspires protests.
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.
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.