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

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.

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.

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.

For years, the Pentagon has shielded them from public scrutiny: few people have seen alleged teen terrorist Omar Khadr's shrapnel-clouded blind eye, confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed on his knees in prayer, or the shy grin of Yemeni Suleiman al Nadhi.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.