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Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (Spanish: Base Naval de la Bahía de Guantánamo), officially known as Naval Station Guantanamo Bay or NSGB, (also called GTMO, pronounced Gitmo / ˈ ɡ ɪ t m oʊ / GIT-moh as jargon by members of the U.S. military [1]) is a United States military base occupying a location on 45 square miles (117 km 2) of land and water [2] on the shore of Guantánamo Bay at the ...
The Pentagon announced two more prisoners were released Wednesday from Guantánamo Bay. Another prisoner's release was announced earlier this week. U.S. releases 2 Guantánamo prisoners, leaving ...
The naval base at Guantanamo Bay was leased by Cuba to the American government through the "Agreement Between the United States and Cuba for the Lease of Lands for Coaling and Naval stations", signed by the President of Cuba and the President of the United States on 23 February 1903. The lease agreement from 1903 says in Article 2:
Many detainees are still being detained, others have been released to return to their homeland, and still others have been classified and cleared for release but remain at Guantanamo Bay and in U.S. custody because their home countries cannot assure their safety. [22] According to the prior Secretary of the Navy Gordon England,
As of Wednesday, 27 detainees remain at Guantanamo Bay, the Pentagon said. According to the Pentagon’s release, 29 detainees remain at the military prison — 15 of whom are eligible to be ...
The U.S. Department of Defense on Wednesday announced the transfer of two detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, bringing the total announced departures to three detainees in the last 24 hours.
In April 2002, construction of the new 410-bed Camp Delta (Camps 1, 2, 3) was completed. The detainees were moved from Camp X-Ray to Camp Delta that month. In November 2002, Joint Task Force 160 and 170 were merged to create Joint Task Force Guantanamo. [citation needed] By 2007 original Camp Delta compound was supplemented by Camps 4, 5 and 6.
A Kenyan prisoner was released from the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay on Tuesday after spending more than a decade imprisoned without charges. Mohammed Abdul Malik Bajabu, 51, served 17 ...