http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Guantánamo Special Coverage 60 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:44:40 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/1326739.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/1326739.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:02 EST Out of work and willing to relocate? McDonald's is advertising for an assistant manager for its sole franchise in Cuba -- serving up burgers and fries that sometimes feed detainees at the prison camps at Guantánamo Bay. http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/1332618.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/1332618.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:52 EST Over the years, the Pentagon has sworn out military commission charges against 26 detainees at Guantánamo. Here's how those cases stand after Attorney General Eric Holder's announcement that five 9/11 conspirators will be prosecuted in civilian court in New York. http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/1331589.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/1331589.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:46 EST Attorney General Eric Holder has announced a series of developments in the Obama administration's bid to shut down the prison camps at Guantánamo, chief among them plans for a 9/11 trial in New York City. http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/102770.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/102770.html Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:20 EDT <br> The Pentagon has built a series of prison camps at Guantánamo Bay since it inaugurated its offshore interrogation center for terrorist suspects in January 2002 by airlifting captives to remote Cuba from Bagram, Afghanistan. They include: <br> <hr> <br> <img src="http://media.miamiherald.com/smedia/2007/10/30/11/662-1.highlight.prod_affiliate.56.jpg" align="right" hspace="5"/> <b>Camp X-Ray:</b> The first camp, with 320 cells made of chain-link fencing, has emerged as the iconic image of the rugged, makeshift accommodations granted so-called enemy combatants in remote Cuba. A maze of kennel-like cages, the camp housed prisoners for about four months. It was an arrangement that allowed them to chat and pray communally and at one point organize the first hunger strike. Now abandoned, and overgrown with weeds, it provides journalists from around the world an opportunity to see how the detention center's infrastructure has evolved. <b>Opened: Jan. 11, 2002. Current population: zero.</b><br><br> <hr> <br> <img src="http://media.miamiherald.com/smedia/2007/10/30/11/889-2.highlight.prod_affiliate.56.jpg" align="right" hspace="5"/> <b>Camp Delta, also known as Camps 1-2-3:</b> This was the first improvement for housing the detainees. Halliburton workers from the Indian subcontinent welded metal shipping containers to create about 720 individual steel and mesh cells in boxcar-style arrangements. Built in stages for well over $30 million, its first phase, built in May 2002 with a projected five-year life span, has been renovated to make it harder for captives to rip steel parts from the walls and floors of the cells. In June 2006, three Arab captives were simultaneously discovered hanging in their cells, initially unnoticed by guards because they hung towels to block the view. By January 2009, a Pentagon report said, it was being used to house an undisclosed number of hunger-striking detainees being force-fed nutritional shakes through tubes tethered up their noses and into their stomachs. <b>Opened: April 28, 2002. Current detainee population: About 10.</b><br><br> <hr> <br> <img src="http://media.miamiherald.com/smedia/2007/10/30/11/195-3.highlight.prod_affiliate.56.jpg" align="right" hspace="5" border="1"/> <b>Camp Echo:</b> This 24-cell camp has been used for captives to meet lawyers inside shed-style buildings containing a tiny cell, a toilet and shower, with adjoining space for a table and chairs, and an ankle shackle fixed to the floor. Until a federal judge ordered the practice halted in November 2004, it was used as a special segregation site for detainees facing war-crimes trials before Military Commissions. Confessed al Qaeda foot soldier David Hicks of Australia lived there on and off for long stretches of his five-year stay at Guantánamo and was segregated from the "enemy combatant" population following his guilty plea while awaiting repatriation to his homeland. A few detainees live there permanently for reasons the military has not explained. <b>Opened: Date unknown. Current detainee population: Three to five.</b> http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/1277709.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/1277709.html Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:21 EDT A list of guidelines for the Guantánamo detainee library, obtained by The Miami Herald, breaks down topics between restricted and authorized for distribution among war-on-terror captives. http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/1040791.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/1040791.html Sun, 10 May 2009 22:03 EDT These are days of uncertainty at Guantánamo Bay -- for the prisoners, contractors and sailors who will remain. http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/1029920.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/1029920.html Sat, 02 May 2009 10:03 EDT Once a storage depot for Cold War missiles, this military base is quiet these days, with miles of oak and pine, freshwater marshes, fishing piers, and a sleepy golf club. http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/988997.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/988997.html Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:32 EDT The White House has hired Indian-American actor Kal Penn as a liaison between President Barack Obama's administration and arts groups. http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/803751.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/803751.html Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:21 EST The Pentagon on Monday begins more hearings for the proposed death penalty trial of reputed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed, even as President-elect Barack Obama's transition team and the Bush administration work to possibly close the Navy base prison camps. http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/930542.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/930542.html Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:53 EST The Pentagon has placed its newest camp strictly out of bounds for both media and military defense attorneys. http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/375017.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/375017.html Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:01 EST The first surprise may be that the most damning, enduring images of the prison camps at Guantánamo were taken by a U.S. sailor. It was his job, on assignment to an elite Defense Department unit called Combat Camera at the remote Navy base that day the first detainees arrived Jan. 11, 2002. http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/295969.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/295969.html Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:01 EST Guards earlier this year stopped cutting the beards off unruly war-on-terror detainees, according to the military, confirming for the first time a practice that enraged Muslim captives and their American advocates. http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/275209.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/275209.html Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:11 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/264532.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/264532.html Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:34 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/229196.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/229196.html Sun, 09 Sep 2007 03:01 EDT It's in books, films and poetry -- on the stage and in art installations http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/266266.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/266266.html Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:23 EDT The Pentagon's new policy advisor on detention has navigated the political and bureaucratic minefield between State and Defense departments. http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/266225.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/266225.html Thu, 31 May 2007 23:42 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/264540.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/264540.html Sun, 20 May 2007 15:43 EDT 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." http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/264568.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/264568.html Tue, 15 May 2007 16:12 EDT With most detainees living in windowless, steel and cement cells, life at the prison camps at Guantánamo has turned into a lockdown routine. http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/264891.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1377/story/264891.html Sun, 13 May 2007 22:51 EDT The Bush administration is preparing the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to house up to 10,000 refugees in case of a Caribbean migrant crisis -- and starting with the bathrooms.