Boston bombing

Boston Marathon bombing suspect: enemy combatant or common criminal?

A political and legal debate is underway about whether to treat the alleged Boston Marathon bomber as an enemy combatant or a common criminal. Photo Gallery Available

A U.S. soldier walks cellblock Bravo at Camp 5, the maximum-security lockup at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Thursday, April 18, 2013while eight captives locked inside individual cells took take part in morning prayers. This photo was reviewed and approved for release by the U.S. military, a precondition of access to reporters working at the prison camps. CAROL ROSENBERG/The Miami Herald

In the camps

Guantánamo hunger strike reaches 63 -- 38 percent

The prison-camps spokesman said 63 of the 166 captives had missed enough meals or become malnourished enough to meet the detention-center definition of a hunger strike. Video Available Photo Gallery Available

Until Saturday's raid on Guantanamo's communal prison compound, commanders said, U.S. troops were blind to what was going on inside individual cells because the captives had covered up 147 of the 160 cellblock cameras. On Tuesday, April 16, 2013, the 65 or so captives were under lockdown in individual cells, and guards had surveillance on each one, as illustrated here where a prisoner can be seen clad in the white uniform of a compliant captive going through his "basic issue," as the military called it -- sheets, blanket, mat -- as the lone prisoner on his tier. The man spent time arranging and rearranging the little pile of belongings -- no Quran was visible -- and then could be seen pacing back and forth in his cell. This photo was approved for release by the U.S. military at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

IN THE CAMP

U.S. troops detail skirmish with Guantánamo captives

Captives fashioned weapons from broom handles and gravel-filled water bottles to battle U.S. troops in what was once Guantánamo’s showcase prison for cooperative detainees. Photo Gallery Available

White House alerted ahead of Guantánamo raid

Spokesman says 45 of 166 captives are now considered to be hunger strikers, and 13 are being tube fed.

A detainee gives visiting media a thumbs down from inside his cell at Camp 6 in this March 31, 2009 image approved for release by the military at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

IN THE CAMPS

Troops forcibly move hunger strikers at Guantánamo into cells

Overnight, guards raided a communal prison and locked about 60 captives into individual cells to end months of protests. Photo Gallery Available

A closer look at the "enteral feeding" display for journalists on Thursday, March 21, 2013 meant to illustrate how Navy medical staff feed hunger-striking captives via a tube up their nose at the U.S. Navy run hospital at the prison camps at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. This photo was approved for release by the U.S. military under terms of access to the prison that let a soldier review each and every image and delete those that show too much or certain details.

IN THE CAMPS

Why U.S. doesn't let detainees starve at Guantánamo Bay

Dozens of war-on-terror captives are on a hunger strike and 11 are being fed by tube by the U.S. military so that they won’t starve to death. Photo Gallery Available

Navy Capt. Richard Butler, right, before his promotion to rear admiral, while serving as chief of staff for the commander of U.S. Naval Air Forces, is show watching the Blue Angels practice over Shade Tree Practice Range in El Centro, Calif., in February 2011.

IN THE CAMPS

Navy names next prison camps commander

The Pentagon Friday named a veteran U.S. Navy officer, an F-14 pilot who trained at the “Top Gun” school, to become the 13th commander of the prison camps at Guantánamo.

WAR COURT

Pentagon: All sides suffer from Guantánamo computer crashes

A computer server crashed and a search for documents went awry, affecting material from both prosecutors and defense attorneys in the death-penalty trials, the Pentagon said Friday.

WAR COURT

Pentagon computer problems postpone Guantánamo hearing

Defense counsel documents have been compromised, and perhaps seen by prosecutors, so another delay has hit the war court in Guantánamo. Photo Gallery Available

HUNGER STRIKE

Red Cross chief: End political blockage on Guantánamo

The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross blames U.S. politics for impasse that led to hunger strike. Video Available

Flaunt Magazine's invitation to Friday's party, stripped of its "New Guantanamo" title offering "pleasurable torture" and Smashbox Studios sponsorship as released by the fashion magazine Tuesday afternoon.

IN THE ARTS

Fashion mag's racy invite to Guantánamo-themed party causes uproar

An exclusive invitation this week to a Guantánamo-themed party promising “pleasurable torture” on the fringes of a West Coast music and arts festival went too far. Photo Gallery Available

A view of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. May 5, 2012.

ON THE BASE

Tugboat sinks into Guantánamo Bay

A tugboat sank in Guantánamo Bay, and commercial air service to the U.S. Navy base was reauthorized for the remainder of the year. 1369352950

Captives who won't eat and are considered at risk are given up-to twice daily feedings of Ensure or other nutritional shakes, often while strapped into a restraint chair shown in this Thursday, March 21, 2013 display at the prison camps' hospital at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, and cleared for release by the U.S. military.

Guantánamo notifying lawyers for prisoners on feeding tubes

Lawyers for prisoners held at Guantánamo say the U.S. government has begun notifying them if their clients are being force-fed during a hunger strike at the U.S. base in Cuba.

IN THE CAMPS

Qurans at crux of Guantánamo hunger strike

The Pentagon says prisoners have hidden contraband — including weapons — in Qurans but officials offer no proof as Guantánamo hunger strike continues to grow. Video Available Photo Gallery Available

High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay delivers remarks during a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly to discuss the human rights situation in Syria at United Nations headquarters on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012.

UN rights chief to US: Close Guantánamo

The United Nations’ top human rights official pressed the U.S. on Friday to close the Guantánamo Bay prison, strongly criticizing the indefinite detention of inmates at the facility.

GUANTANAMO BAY

Guantánamo hunger strike numbers rise; Yemen proposes visit

With reports of a widening hunger strike, Yemen tries new approaches to U.S. for return of Yemeni citizens who are cleared for release from detention at Guantánamo. Photo Gallery Available

Army Col. John Bogdan is the commander of the guard force at the detention center at the U.S. Navy base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He makes a point during an interview on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012.

IN THE CAMPS

Guantánamo guard chief: Prison tap water is safe

The Army officer in charge of the Guantánamo Bay guards said in a sworn statement Thursday that there’s nothing wrong with the tap water at the prison, despite claims to the contrary by prisoners and U.S. forces who have worked there. Photo Gallery Available

This screengrab of the Guantanamo captive Zayn al Abdeen Mohammed al Hussein., known as Abu Zubaydah, was from a video interview he made sometime between the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and his March 28, 2002 capture by CIA and U.S. intelligence agents in Faisalabad, Pakistan. It comes from a video that screened at a military commission in Feburary 2011.

In the courts

Waterboarded Zubaydah sues Poland in European court

A Guantanamo detainee who allegedly revealed valuable information about 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohamed is suing Poland in a European court. 1369352950

IN THE CAMPS

Red Cross in Guantánamo a week early to check on hunger strikers

According to the Pentagon, 10 hunger strikers were being fed nutritional supplements through a feeding tube. Video Available Photo Gallery Available

Navy corpsmen, that service's version of medics, are distinctive from Guantanamo prison camp guards by their Navy specific digital uniform. Also, unlike the guards who have serial numbers where their nametags go on their Army uniforms, the sailors have pseudonyms. This rotaton chose Shakespearan characters, for example Desdemona, taken from 'Othello.' A member of the U.S. military reviewed this image and approved its release, per Pentagon conditions of media access to the detention center.

REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK

Prison medics borrow pseudonyms from Bard

Items from a reporter’s notebook after a three-day visit to the U.S. detention center complex at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to report on the current hunger strike. Video Available Photo Gallery Available

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