Window opens on secret camp within Guantanamo

[Jesus Malverde]

Last edited Sun Apr 13, 2014, 12:27 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

Attorney James Connell has visited his client inside the secret Guantanamo prison complex known as Camp 7 only once, taken in a van with covered windows on a circuitous trek to disguise the route on the scrub brush-and-cactus covered military base.

Connell is allowed to say virtually nothing about what he saw in the secret camp where the most notorious terror suspects in U.S. custody are held except that it is unlike any detention facility he's encountered.

"It's much more isolating than any other facility that I have known," the lawyer says. "I've done cases from the Virginia death row and Texas death row and these pretrial conditions are much more isolating."

The Camp 7 prison unit is so shrouded in secrecy that its location on the U.S. base in Cuba is classified and officials refuse to discuss it. Now, two separate but related events are forcing it into the limelight.


Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/window-opens-secret-camp-within-guantanamo-151856167.html

[hlthe2b]

1. link doesn't seem to be working...

Here is one based on the AP report:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/window-opens-secret-camp-guantanamo-23309123

[grasswire]

2. link scrubbed?

I don't get to the story.

[A Simple Game]

3. Put me in charge of the next round of base closures and this place is no longer a problem.

Why do we even have a base there, just because we can?

[Plucketeer]

6. What???

You mean your representatives haven't asked you how you feel about these offshore detention establishments? Don't feel too bad - mine haven't asked me either!

Of course, we "offshore" everything else (including revenue sources), so I'd say Guano-tanamo is in keeping with this country's modus operandi. How long before it's privatized???

[Omaha Steve]

5. Here is a working link

http://news.yahoo.com/window-opens-secret-camp-within-guantanamo-151856167.html

[Jesus Malverde]

7. Strange AP no working

Thanks steve updated.

[OnyxCollie]

8. Lawyer Says Guantanamo’s Secret ‘Camp 7’ Violates Geneva Convention

Lawyer Says Guantanamo’s Secret ‘Camp 7’ Violates Geneva Convention
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/08/lawyer-challenges-guantanamos-camp-7.html

Last week Connell, who represents Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's nephew, was finally allowed to spend twelve hours inside Camp 7, the ultra-secret area of the prison that houses "high-value detainees." The camp's location on the base is classified, and Connell wasn't allowed to see how he got there. He's also prohibited from discussing exactly what he saw, but he said it amounts to illegal pretrial punishment. He plans to file a motion challenging the conditions, which he says violate the standards established by the Geneva Conventions. Chief prosecutor Brig. Gen. Mark Martins denied his claim, saying, "We take very seriously humane standards."

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The US doesn't torture, but you can't see what goes on in Camp 7, 'cause it's secret.

[bvar22]

9. ...not just the Geneva Convention,

but also violates the accepted standards against Cruel & Unusual Punishment.
AFAIC, this type of imposed isolation is a form of torture.


You will know them by their WORKS.

[warrant46]

10. If Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich and Heinrich Luitpold Himmler were alive today

They would give the last 2 American regimes a couple of awards for following an ancient and well seasoned tradition of torture.

[GoneFishin]

11. "There's no way to explain the security measures ..... they must be hiding something."

My exact thoughts. They are keeping the haystack around precisely so that they can hide a needle in it. The fact that Camp 7 is super-duper top secret begs the question of what other ultra-secret facilities are there stashed at Guantanamo, and what the hell are they hiding there?

"There's no way to explain the security measures that they use from the perspective of the safety of the guards or the safety of the detainees, beyond that they must be hiding something."

[Javaman]

12. There will come a day, a very dark day...

that the US will pay for this type of behavior.

all empires fall, but when the US does, it will make Rome look like a walk in the park.

I sincerely hope that I'm not alive to witness it.

[Solly Mack]

13. K&R