Camp Delta (Guantanamo Bay)

19°54′09″N 75°05′57″W

A Camp Delta recreation and exercise area at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The detention block is shown with sunshades drawn on December 3 2002.

Camp Delta, situated at 19°54′09″N 75°05′57″W, composed of detention camps 1, 2, 3, 4,and Camp Echo, is a permanent 612-unit detention center at Guantanamo Bay that replaced the temporary facilities of Camp X-Ray. It was built between February 27 and mid-April 2002 by Navy Seabees, Marine Engineers, and workers from Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root.

Most of the security force are U.S. Army military police, and U.S. Navy Masters-at-Arms.

Detainees are first sent to Camp 3, the maximum security camp. Detainees who cooperate with their guards are moved to Camp 2, then, after more co-operation, to Camp 1. Prisoners who are considered to show no security risk and cooperate with interrogators are moved to Camp 4.

Camp 4 buildings have a shower and lavatory, plus four communal living rooms for 10 prisoners each. Each detainee has a bed and a locker for items such as diaries and books. Camp 4 has small, common recreational areas for playing board games and team sports. Detainees at Camp 4 share communal meals, and wear white instead of orange.[1]

See also

• Timeline of the history of Afghanistan
• Platt Amendment - Document that Guarantees U.S. Navy use in Cuba
• Combatant Status Review Tribunal
• List of Guantanamo Bay detainees
• Qur'an desecration controversy of 2005
• Guantanamo military commissions
• Administrative Review Board
• Camp Echo
• Camp Iguana
• Camp X-ray
• Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedures

External links and references

U.S. sources

• FOX News: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba confesses to involvement in 31 attacks and plots.
• Bloomberg: Captured Al-Qaeda Operative Confesses at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Planning Cole Bombing
• Ruling saying Hamdan needs competent tribunal to determine his POW status (PDF file)
• GlobalSecurity.org: Profile of Camp X-Ray
• Website campaigning for an end of the detention of several inmates
• Guantánamo detainees mostly young foot soldiers Carol Rosenberg, The Miami Herald, 25 March 2002
• Fate of Prisoners From Afghan War Remains Uncertain, Neil Lewis, New York Times, 24 April 2003
• Do Unto Others: Neil Lewis, from Guantanamo to Plattsburgh, by Matt Taibbi, NYPress, 30 April 2003 - Taibbi takes NYT reporter Lewis to account for coverage of detainees
• American Civil Liberties Union: Federal Court Decision Granting Guantanamo Bay Detainees Judicial Review Caps Red-Letter Day for Checks and Balances
• Guantanamo Human Rights Commission
• Maybe None of Them are Terrorists
• Dana Priest and Joe Stephens. Pentagon Approved Tougher Interrogations, Washington Post. (9 May 2004)
• U.S. Said to Overstate Value of Guantánamo Detainees, NYT 21 June 2004
• ^ US to release partial list of Guantanamo detainees, Reuters, March 3 2006

Miscellaneous sources

• Human Rights Watch report
• Amnesty International seeks assurances on Guantanamo
• Amnesty International delivers dossier of concerns
• Amnesty International 2004 report (USA section)
• BBC: Three youths under the age of 16 are being held...
• Daily Mirror: My Hell In Camp X-Ray (12 March 2004)
• Observer: Revealed: the full story of the Guantanamo Britons (14 March 2004)
• The Guardian: continued concerns about torture in the camp (December 2004)
• BBC: Tipton three complain of beatings (14 March 2004)
• "Cuba? It was great, say boys freed from US prison camp, James Astill meets teenagers released from Guantanamo Bay who recall the place fondly". The Guardian. 6 March 2004.
• Schema- root.org: Guantanamo detaineesNews feeds for known Guantanamo detainees
• Guantanamo Human Rights Commission
• Virtual 3D Walkthrough of Camp Delta (from the Art project Zone*Interdite)

Supreme Court case and UK parliamentarians' amici curiæ

• Guardian: MPs and peers in Camp Delta plea, January 10, 2004.
• Jenner and Block: U.S. Supreme Court Guantanamo Bay Cases: Brief amici curiae of 175 Members of Both Houses of Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• FindLaw: Shafiq Rasul, et al. v. George W. Bush, President of the United States, et al. etc.
• Supreme Court of the United States of America: Docket for 03-334 (Rasul v Bush)
• 'They tied me up like a beast and began kicking me' The Observer, Sunday 16 May 2004 Account of prisoner treatment in Camp X-Ray.
• Q&A: US Supreme Court Guantanamo ruling BBC News. (8 July 2004)