Guantánamo
Camp X-Ray as seen from the one place reporters are currently allowed to view it, a razor-wire-encircled hilltop, on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018 in an image approved for release by U.S. Army operational security inspectors.
CAROL ROSENBERG
crosenberg@miamiherald.com
A detainee being moved from one part of Camp X-Ray to another on April 3, 2002.
PATRICK FARRELL
pfarrell@miamiherald.com
Camp X-Ray’s first clinic for treating war-on-terror captives as seen during a Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012 visit.
WALTER MICHOT
MIAMI HERALD STAFF
U.S. Army Pfc. Keith Perkins hands lunch to a detainee in Camp X-Ray’s F Block. U.S.
SHANE T. McCOY
US NAVY PETTY OFFICER
Two days before the arrival of the first al-Qaida at Camp X-Ray, a military police officer and his guard dog patrol the area on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2002. Military Police from Ft. Hood, Texas, were training in the compound that day.
TIM CHAPMAN
MIAMI HERALD STAFF
An inmate of Camp X-Ray is escorted by two guards while other inmates are seen in their cells on March 15, 2002.
TOMAS VAN HOUTRYVE
ASSOCITED PRESS
Military police from Ft. Hood, Texas, march outside Camp X-Ray on Guantánamo two days before the first detainees arrived, Jan. 9, 2002, in the first of what would be come hundreds of media opportunities at the war-on-terror detention center.
TIM CHAPMAN
MIAMI HERALD STAFF
In this handout photo from the Department of Defense, 20 Taliban and al-Qaida detainees in orange jumpsuits kneel in a holding area at Camp X-Ray at Naval Base Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, during in-processing to the temporary detention facility on Jan. 11, 2002.
SHANE T. McCOY
US NAVY PETTY OFFICER
U.S. Marines watch over Camp X-Ray on Jan. 9, 2002 at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay two days before the facility opened with the arrival of the first 20 captives from Afghanistan.
TIM CHAPMAN
MIAMI HERALD STAFF
In this handout photo from the Department of Defense U.S. Military Police escort a detainee to his cell in Camp X-Ray on Jan. 11, 2002, the day the prison opened.
SHANE T. MCCOY
US NAVY PETTY OFFICER
In this handout photo from the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy Chaplain Lt. Abuhena M. Saiful-Islam, a Bangladesh-born imam, leads al-Qaida and Taliban detainees at Camp X-Ray in morning prayers before dawn Thursday, Jan. 24, 2002, at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Saiful-Islam, one of 17 Muslim clerics in the U.S. military, arrived at the base Wednesday from Camp Pendelton, Calif. U.S. Marine at right is unidentified.
SGT. JOSHUA S. HIGGINS
US MARINE CORPS
A detainee is placed onto a stretcher by military police after being interrogated by military officials at Camp X-Ray on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2002. On that day, the Pentagon held 158 suspected al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners at Camp X-Ray.
LYNNE SLADKY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld held a press conference just outside Camp X-Ray on Jan. 27 2002. At far right was the detention operations commander, Marine Brig. Gen. Michael Lehnert.
PETER MUHLY
AFP
Two days before the arrival of the first al-Qaida at Camp X-Ray, a military police officer and his guard dog patrol the area on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2002. Military Police from Ft. Hood, Texas, were training in the compound that day.
TIM CHAPMAN
MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Camp X-Ray interrogation huts disintegrating and taken over by nature during this Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012 visit. At Guantánamo, commanders then said the site was under a court preservation order, meaning the military cannot tear down the abandoned prison camp but that nature can have its way with it.
WALTER MICHOT
MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Detainees prepare themselves for the evening prayer March 4, 2002 at Camp X-Ray in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, at a time when a hunger strike was underway.
PETER MUHLY
AFP
An abandoned interrogation room at the now defunct Camp X-Ray gathers dust on April 1, 2009 in this image approved for release by the U.S. military at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
JOHN VANBEEKUM
MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Notations on a door of the crude wooden Camp X-Ray clinic showed how many detainees visited the clinic when it was functioning during a May 9, 2006 media visit.
MARK WILSON
GETTY
U.S. Army Capt. Dan Byer, left, giving journalists a tour of the former detainee Camp X-Ray May 9, 2006 in a photo approved for release by the U.S. military.
MARK WILSON
GETTY
U.S. Army Capt. Dan Byer, left, walks out of an interrogation room while giving journalists a tour of the former detainee Camp X-Ray May 9, 2006 in a photo approved for release by the U.S. military.
MARK WILSON
GETTY
Weeds covered the original detention center, Camp X-Ray, on April 1, 2009 in this image approved for release by the U.S. military.
JOHN VANBEEKUM
MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Camp X-Ray at dawn on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009 in an image approved by U.S. military censors. Under a Pentagon interpretation of a federal court protective order, the miltary left the place to grow wild but could not raze it.
CAROL ROSENBERG
crosenberg@miamiherald.com
A detainee being moved from one part of Camp X-Ray to another on April 3, 2002.
PATRICK FARRELL
pfarrell@miamiherald.com
U.S. Army Private First Class Jodi Smith, an MP, stands perimeter watch at Camp X-Ray the day the first detainees arrived, Jan. 11, 2002 in this Pentagon handout photo.
SHANE T. McCOY
US NAVY PETTY OFFICER
A detainee is escorted to interrogation by U.S. military guards at Camp X-Ray on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2002.
ANDRES LEIGHTON
ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009 photo, approved for release by a Pentagon contract censor, news reporters visiting Camp X-Ray found Jamaican guest laborers sprucing the place up for an FBI forensic team coming to take three-dimensional photos of the place for future use in any federal court case.
CAROL ROSENBERG
crosenberg@miamiherald.com
Camp X-Ray, under a U.S. federal court preservation order, was empty and overrun by nature at the U.S. Navy base during this Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012 visit.
WALTER MICHOT
MIAMI HERALD STAFF
One of the 80 detainees, wearing an orange jumpsuit can be seen in his cell at Camp X-Ray on Jan. 17, 2002.
ROBERTO SCHMIDT
AFP
A banana rat, also known as a jutia, was the only visible occupant of Camp X-Ray during this Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012 visit.
WALTER MICHOT
MIAMI HERALD STAFF
In this March 1, 2002 file photo, a detainee is escorted to interrogation by U.S. military guards in the temporary detention facility Camp X-Ray.
ANDRES LEIGHTON
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Retired Army Col. Terry Carrico, the first Military Police commander at Camp X-Ray, leads a tour of the site on July 26, 2013 in this handout Pentagon photo.
SGT/ CASSANDRA MOORE
US ARMY
Detainees captured during the war in Afghanistan await the evening call to prayer at Camp X-Ray on March 3, 2002.
PETTY OFFICER MEGAN CASEY
U.S. COAST GUARD
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