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

Medical staff at the Guanttanamo Bay prison camp hospital said Thursday, March, 21, 2013 that there was a sufficient suppliy nutritional shakes -- these boxes shown here are vanilla flavored -- for the current captive hunger strike at the U.S. Navy base in southeast 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

Guantánamo hunger strike grows; 3 captives hospitalized

Navy medical staff at Guantánamo on Monday listed 28 of the 166 war on terror captives as Pentagon-defined “hunger strikers,” three of whom were being treated at the prison camps hospital. Video Available Photo Gallery Available

Soldier guards trash communal lunch for dozens of Guantanamo detainees on Wednesday, March 20, 2013, weeks into a food strike at the prison camps at the U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba. Entire communal cellblocks have refused food for weeks, say commanders who believe the captives are consuming hoarded supplies and food slipped to them from Delta Block, the one cellblock at Camp 6 that has systematically received their communal meals. 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 taken by visiting journalists and delete those that show too much or certain details, such as a guard's face.

HUNGER STRIKE

Food fight: Guantánamo captives, guards at stalemate

Tensions are high at the prison camp for war-on-terror captives, and at least 26 detainees — and perhaps many more — are engaging in a hunger strike. Video Available Photo Gallery Available

Paul L. Oostburg Sanz, general counsel of the Navy, greets a drill instructor during a graduation ceremony at Parris Island, S.C., July 29, 2011.

WAR COURT

Navy's top lawyer named interim military commissions chief

The Navy’s top lawyer, a political appointee who helped reform the Guantánamo war court for the Obama administration, has taken over as a the top Pentagon official overseeing the Sept. 11 and USS Cole death penalty trials.

Marine Gen. John F. Kelly, commander of the U.S. Southern Command, briefs the media at the Pentagon on Wednesday, March 20, 2013.

ON THE HILL

Southcom general: Guantánamo needs $170 million for repairs

Gen John Kelly tells House Armed Services Committee that the U.S. Navy base and detention center in Cuba needs major upgrades for troops, prisoners.

An Army guard appears to be discussing a meal through a slot in the cell, called a "beanhole," in this Oct. 19, 2011 archive photo from the prison camps at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo.

IN THE CAMPS

Guantánamo hunger strike grows; military says total now 24

Navy medical staff were treating two captives suffering dehydration in the prison camp hospital at Guantánamo as the military disclosed Tuesday that the number of hunger strikers had risen to 24. Photo Gallery Available

A Boeing 747 contracted by the U.S. Air Force's Air Mobility Command lands at the Guantanamo Bay airfield with humanitarian supplies on Jan. 24, 2010, when the U.S. Navy base airstrip was a supply hub for U.S. relief operations following Haiti's devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake Jan. 12, 2010.

ON THE BASE

Navy ruling ends commercial flights to Guantánamo from South Florida

The Guantánamo Navy commander is halting commercial air passenger service from South Florida to the remote outpost in southeast Cuba, invoking a federal regulation that the Pentagon had apparently waived for years. Photo Gallery Available

In this photo taken on Feb. 9, 2013, former Guantanamo prisoners, from left, Ahmat Abdulahad, Davut Abdurahim and Abdulghappar Abdulrahman sit outside Abdulrahman's small apartment in Koror, Palau. Released from Guantanamo Bay military prison by the U.S. in 2009, Abdulahad and several other Uighur men have been struggling on the South Pacific island nation of Palau where they have been temporarily resettled. The men and Palau's new president say pressure from China has made it impossible for them to find a permanent home elsewhere.

In China’s shadow, Guantánamo’s former Uighur captives languish on Palau

More than three years after some captives cleared by the court were given safe haven in Palau, their host nation's patience funding is running out. Photo Gallery Available

A soldier enters Camp 6 at the Navy at the detention center at the U.S. Navy base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on Monday, Aug 6, 2012.

IN THE CAMPS

U.S. acknowledges 14 on hunger strike at Guantánamo prison

The Defense Department confirmed Friday that 14 war-on-terror captives are on hunger strikes and said estimates of a mass protest were exaggerated. Photo Gallery Available

A changing of the soldier guards at the detention center at the U.S. Navy base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Monday, Aug. 6, 2012.

US offers OAS panel no new date for closing Guantánamo

For the first time since President Barack Obama was re-elected, administration officials this week formally answered questions about human rights violations at the Guantánamo Bay detention center for suspected terrorists, but they avoided offering any timeframe for closing the facility.

The Pentagon's military commissions released a court filing Monday, March 11, 2013, showing a photo of a microphone that death-penalty defense lawyers argued was concealed to look like a smoke detector at the attorney-client meeting room at Guantanamo, the U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba. The military argued in court February that the listening device was clearly visible and obviously labeled inside the lockups with cells at Camp Echo. The military has since their discovery agreed to disconnect them.

WAR COURT

Guantánamo smoke detector/listening device revealed

Guantánamo prosecutors and an Army commander told a judge last month that a bug that looked like a smoke detector was 'clearly a microphone.' Now the court of public opinion can decide. Photo Gallery Available

Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins, an Army brigiadier general, speaks at the press conference May 6, 2012 at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a day after Khalid Sheik Mohammed, 46, and four alleged accomplices were arraigned at the war court in a 13-hour marathon session at the war court.

WAR COURT

Pentagon prosecutor: Transparency sufficient at 9/11 trial

The ACLU’s challenge of a lack of transparency in the trial of men accused of planning the attacks of 9/11 moves forward and will get a hearing. Photo Gallery Available

The early January episode occurred in the Guantnamo detention center's showcase "Super-Rec" facility featuring a soccer field about half the size of an American football field.The prison said last year it had a contractor build the facility for $744,000 for the comfort of guards as well as detainees, complete with air-conditioned watchtowers and remote-controled gates to prevent friction between both sides. This photo was distributed last year by the detention center, which has forbidden independent imagery of the site.

GUANTANAMO BAY

Guantánamo guard shot ‘non-lethal’ round at detainees

A guard at the war-on-terror prison camps fired a non-lethal round to quell a disturbance in January that occurred while cooperative captives were outside on a soccer field. Photo Gallery Available

A closeup of the crushed shipping container aboard the Guantanamo-bound barge the Atlantic Trailer shows cashes of Miller Lite crushed in the mishap.

COAST GUARD

Guantánamo-bound barge loses cargo into ocean

All 22 shipping containers that toppled off a U.S. Navy contract barge bound for the Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, have sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, no longer presenting a seafaring hazard, the Coast Guard said Wednesday. Photo Gallery Available

IN THE COURTS

Lawyers: Conditions deteriorating at Guantánamo prison

A letter to the commander of the prison from lawyers for some detainees cites hunger strikers in medical distress and also claims Quran abuse, which the Navy denies. Photo Gallery Available

In this Pentagon-approved sketch by court artist Janet Hamlin, observers watch the September 11 hearings from the viewing gallery in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on Jan. 31, 2013. Col. James L. Pohl, Commissions judge, can be seen on the five monitors overhead. General Mark Martins is standing, speaking to the judge. During the course of the hearing the monitors show whomever is speaking at the time on a 40-second delay, while live court is seen through soundproof windows and moves forward in real time.

WAR COURT

Media, ACLU challenge Guantánamo war-court closure policy

Weeks after they were rebuffed by the Sept. 11 trial judge, civil liberties and media groups have appealed to the Pentagon’s Court of Military Commissions Review for more transparency at the Guantánamo war court.

The sun rises over a portion of the U.S. detention center that journalists are allowed to see at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. on Oct. 18, 2012 in this photo cleared for release by the U.S. military.

9/11 TRIAL

Judge: No sleepover but lawyers can spend 12 hours in Guantánamo’s secret prison

They can’t sleep over, but a judge has ordered the military to let defense attorneys spend 12 hours inside the secret prison at Guantánamo that houses alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his accused co-conspirators, attorneys said Thursday.

GUANTANAMO

Uighur sent to Palau not missing after all

A freed Guantánamo detainee who left the Pacific island nation of Palau, where the United States had sent him for safe haven, is not missing but has actually resettled in Turkey.

Army Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, the Pentagon's chief war crimes prosecutor, aboard a MiamiAir 737 aircraft from the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that diverted to MIami International Airport on its way to Andrews Air Force Base Feb. 15, 2013, because of an engine problem. The flight with 141 passengers on board, including the war court judge and six family members of 9/11 victims, landed safely in Miami.

WAR COURT

Charter flight from Guantánamo makes emergency landing in Miami

A MiamiAir charter flight to Andrews Air Force Base in Washington, D.C., from the U.S. Navy base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, was forced to make an emergency landing at Miami International Airport shortly after noon Friday because of engine trouble.

Former FBI Agent Ali Soufan, shown testifying here for the government, on July 23, 2008 at the Guantanamo trial of Osama bin Laden's driver, Salim Hamdan, went on to write a book, "Black Banners." The military bans prisoners from reading it, seized a copy this week inside Camp 7.

WAR COURT

Mecca photo, FBI agent’s book, pen refill seized in Guantánamo search of 9/11 plotters’ cells

Prison guards’ seizure of materials from captives’ cells prompts defense attorneys to renew arguments about their clients’ rights. Photo Gallery Available

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