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8 unusual facts about Guantánamo Bay


2nd Combat Engineer Battalion

In the 1970s and early 1980s the battalion furnished Combat Engineer Support to the Battalion Landing Teams (BLT) in the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, 29 Palms, Norway, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Alton Adams

In 1931 Adams's unit was transferred to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, when the naval government of the islands was replaced by a civilian administration, thus separating Adams from family, friends, and his source of social influence.

Field Harris

His first assignment was for a brief period aboard the USS Nevada and subsequently was assigned to the Third Provisional Brigade at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Guantánamo Bay

British Admiral Edward Vernon arrived with a force of eight warships and 4,000 soldiers with plans to march on Santiago de Cuba.

Some legal scholars, such as Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, have countered that the 1903 and 1934 lease agreements were imposed on Cuba under duress and are unequal treaties, no longer compatible with modern international law, and voidable ex nunc pursuant to articles 60, 62, and 64 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.

Since 2002, the base has included the detainment camp for people deemed of risk to US national security.

Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006

Australian Guantánamo Bay inmate David Matthew Hicks applied for British citizenship in 2005 after the previous 2002 legislation allowed citizenship by virtue of maternal heritage.

Treaty of Tlatelolco

Cuba ratified with a reservation that achieving a solution to the United States hostility to Cuba and the use of the Guantánamo Bay military base for U.S. nuclear weapons was a precondition to Cuba's continued adherence.


6mm Lee Navy

Issued to both naval armed guards (bluejackets) and Marine battalions, the 6mm Lee Navy cartridge saw combat service with U.S. forces (primarily Marine riflemen and machine-gun teams) in both Cuba and the Philippines during the Spanish–American War, and was also issued to small formations of attached Cuban rebels participating in the Guantánamo Bay campaign.

American Service-Members' Protection Act

The Dutch MEP Wim van de Camp suggested in July 2009 that if the Netherlands should accept previous inmates of Guantanamo Bay the The Hague Invasion Act should be taken into account in the negotiations.

Bahía Honda, Cuba

Bahía Honda was one of the naval bases leased to the US under the Platt Amendment, but abandoned in 1912 in turn for an expansion of the area leased around Guantánamo Bay.

Caimanera

It is a fishing village and port built on the West shore of the sheltered Guantanamo Bay, just North of the US naval base and South of the provincial capital, Guantánamo.

Christopher Reed

During the debate, Reed made personal attacks on Harkin, accusing him of being the "Tokyo Rose of Al-Qaeda and Middle East terrorism" and calling him "anti-American" and alleging that he provided "aid and comfort to the enemy" in a speech calling for the closure of the United States military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Diary of a Bad Year

The essays, which take up the larger part of each page, are on wide-ranging topics, including the politics of George W. Bush, Tony Blair, Guantanamo Bay, and terrorism.

Edmund Clark

Clark is the only photographer to have gained access to Guantanamo Bay and to a house under a Control Order (housing an individual held under the Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011).

Jack Hooper

Hooper was also involved in the decision making process of sending CSIS officers to Guantanamo Bay's prison to interrogate Omar Khadr, a convicted war criminal detained in Guantanamo at the age of 15.

Jag Star

Countries that the band performed concerts in for Armed Forces Entertainment include Afghanistan, Pakistan, Qatar, Bahrain, Kyrgyzstan, Singapore, Guam, Diego Garcia, Kwajalein, and Guantanamo Bay.

Jason Collett

He also brought a petition to get Canadian citizen Omar Khadr released from the Guantanamo Bay detention centre where he had been kept for some time.

Jordi Raich

He has worked in more than thirty countries, including Somalia, Rwanda, Guatemala, former-Yugoslavia, Afghanistan (where he lived three years), the US Naval Base of Guantanamo Bay (Cuba), Liberia, Israel/Palestine and The Sudan, and has travelled over one hundred.

Loretta A. Preska

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani - On June 9, 2009, Judge Preska heard the plea of the first detainee brought from Guantanamo Bay Military Prison to stand trial in a U.S. civilian court.

Matthew L. Nathan

Nathan then served as the Internal Medicine Dept Head at Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Negro Rebellion

The force was under the command of Major George C. Thorpe and originally intended to be used against rebels in Mexico, it arrived at Guantanamo Bay on March 13.

Rasul v. Rumsfeld

Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal, Ruhal Ahmed, and Jamal Al-Harith, four former Guantánamo Bay detainees, filed suit in 2004 in the United States District Court in Washington, DC against former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

Stanley G. Benner

After training at the Marine Corps' recruit depot at Parris Island, S.C., he arrived at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on January 21, 1941.

Teaneck Armory

Other elements of the New Jersey National Guard based at the Teaneck Armory have been deployed to Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay (also known as "Gitmo" in military circles) and Kosovo, among other places.

WFED

On January 11, 2007, while being interviewed on WFED's morning program The Federal Drive, then-Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs Charles "Cully" Stimson criticized some major U.S. law firms for representing detainees at Guantanamo Bay free of charge.


see also

2014 in British radio

2 January – The morning's edition of BBC Radio 4's Today is guest edited by musician PJ Harvey, with items includes a Thought for the Day from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and a segment in which John Pilger criticises US President Barack Obama for not closing the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

Abdurehim

Dawut Abdurehim (born 1974), Chinese Uyghur refugee and Guantanamo Bay detainee

Ahmed F. Mehalba

Mehalba received a medical discharge from the Army in May 2001 and was later hired a San Diego defense contractor, Titan Corporation, to be an Arabic-English translator at Guantanamo Bay.

Bahlul

Ali al-Bahlul (born 1969), United States Guantanamo Bay detainee

Belmar

Richard Belmar (born 1979), a British man who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps

Hadj Boudella

On June 2005 Boudella's wife Nađa Dizdarević started the first of several hunger strikes to protest her husbands detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Jamal Udeen Al-Harith

After being released, Al-Harith joined the British plaintiffs Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal, and Ruhal Ahmed (the Tipton Three), all former Guantánamo Bay detainees, in Rasul v. Rumsfeld, to sue Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in 2004.

Jarallah

Jaralla al-Marri, Qatari citizen, former detainee at the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp

Mahfouz

Sabir Mahfouz Lahmar, an Algerian-born naturalised Bosnian citizen currently detained by the United States in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Mamet

Edham Mamet, a Uyghur refugee best known for the more than seven years he spent in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba

Maqsud

Ala Abdel Maqsud Muhammad Salim, citizen of Egypt who was held in extrajudicial detention in Guantanamo Bay

Mohammad Ayub

Mohammed Ayub, a Uyghur, formerly held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba

Mohammad Fazel

Mohammad Fazl a Taliban leader held for over nine years in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps

Naimi

Abdulla Majid Al Naimi, Bahraini formerly held in extrajudicial detention in the U.S. Guantanamo Bay detention camp

Quran desecration

In May 2005, a report in Newsweek, claiming that it was U.S. interrogators who desecrated the Quran at the Guantanamo Bay base, further sparking Muslim unrest.

Rick Baccus

After General Baccus’ departure from Guantanamo Bay, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave the Military Intelligence Team control over the Military Police and all aspects of Camp X-Ray and, later, Camp Delta.

Shafiq Rasul

In Rasul v. Rumsfeld, plaintiffs Rasul, Asif Iqbal, Ruhal Ahmed, and Jamal Al-Harith, four former Guantánamo Bay detainees, sued former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

SS Empire Dunstan

She arrived at San Pedro de Macorís on 8 February, departing four days later for Guantanamo Bay, arriving on 14 February and sailing two days later for New York, where she arrived on 23 February.

Timeline of Guantánamo Bay

Named after Rear Admiral John D. Bulkeley, Commander, Naval Base, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, during the water crisis in February 1964, who stood watch on this hill in battle greens, wearing his "Big Iron", a .357 Colt magnum pistol, 12 to 18 hours a day, for several weeks.

Wild Nights in Guantanamo Bay

Wild Nights in Guantanamo Bay is the first full-length album by The Kominas.

Zidan

Ibrahim Mahdy Achmed Zeidan, Libyan man detained at Guantanamo Bay from 2002 to 2007