What do you know about Guantanamo Bay?

Answer 1

It's a military base we leased from Cuba when we granted them independence (Did you know we used to own Cuba?) Castro would never dare directly attack it, so its our largest naval base in the Carribean.

Its unusual legal status came in handy when the administration needed somewhere to stash "illegal combatants" outside the scope of the Geneva convention. If we brought them here, they would have a better argument that they should get a fair trial. If we held them in a typical third country, the host country would come under incredible pressure to see that the detainees got some kind of justice. At Guantanamo we have them, but we can claim that they are not in the US.

The about 1/3 of people held there held there were released after 2-4 years, including three children from age 13 to 15.

The remaining 500+ have had all the useful information sucked out of them and now we've got to figure out some way to give them "trials' to justify their continued detention. Most are probably dangerous, but it's likely most would simply go back to Afghanistan and rejoin the Taliban, like a regular prisoner of war would.

Answer 2

I spent many unhappy weeks there on Fleet Training Exercises in the early 70s - stationed on an old Allen M Sumner DD.
It has some amazing fossil deposits and trillobites particularly.
I brought back some fossilized coral. There is a nifty desalinization plant and there used to be a large water distillation ship anchored in the bay. Brown hills, hot climate. Not much to do. Thats about all I remember. Drills, exercises, long hours, long days at sea chasing submarines, having gunnery exercises, navigation, engineering, signals, all divisions went through weeks of evaluations.
Never did see much of Gitmo proper. Was always glad to leave.

Answer 3

There area was created as naval base after the Spanish-American War about a hundred years ago...It currently serves as a POW camp for those captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere....
POW is a 'loose' term...they are considered terrorists (a criminal)
Like all prisons/POW/concentration camps, it has several layers of fencing, with barb wire, and guard towers w/machine guns and search lighs. It has cells for the prisoners, rooms for interrogation and a large kitchen. Thereis a yard for "exercise"...more like the prisoners get fresh-air, rather than actual exercise...
The guard's living area, the Naval base part, has nice accomidations, including Cuba's only Subway and McDonald's.

Answer 4

They torture and dehumanize terror suspects there, and deny them the right to a trial. They are sometimes kept for years in captivity and torture - and most turn out to be innocent.

Answer 5

Only what the government wants people to know.

Shut up and pay your tax.

Answer 6

I would rather die than go there.

Answer 7

daycare center for our muslim guest

Answer 8

THEY CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!!