Prisons in Guantanamo Bay - Camp X-Ray, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Camp Iguana, Camp No, Camp Bulkeley, Camp Platinum, Camp Five, Camp Delta (Paperback)

Chapters: Camp X-Ray, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Camp Iguana, Camp No, Camp Bulkeley, Camp Platinum, Camp Five, Camp Delta, Camp Six, Camp Echo, Guantanamo Psychiatric Ward, Camp Three, Camp One, Camp 4. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 81. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Guantanamo Bay is a detainment facility of the United States located in Cuba. The facility is operated by Joint Task Force Guant namo of the United States government since 2002 in Guant namo Bay Naval Base, which is on the shore of Guant namo Bay. The detainment areas consist of three camps: Camp Delta (which includes Camp Echo), Camp Iguana, and Camp X-Ray, the last of which has been closed. The facility is often referred to as Guant namo, or Gitmo. After the Justice Department advised that the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp could be considered outside U.S. legal jurisdiction, the first twenty captives arrived at Guantanamo on January 11, 2002. After the Bush administration asserted that detainees were not entitled to any of the protections of the Geneva Conventions, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld on June 29, 2006 that they were entitled to the minimal protections listed under Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions. Following this, on July 7, 2006, the Department of Defense issued an internal memo stating that prisoners would in the future be entitled to protection under Common Article 3. The detainees held as of June 2008 have been classified by the United States as "enemy combatants." On January 22, 2009 the White House announced that President Barack Obama had signed an order to suspend the proceedings of the Guantanamo military commission for 120 days and that the detention facility would be shut down within the year. On January 29, 2009 a military judge at Guantanamo rejected the...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=440677