Camp X-Ray was a temporary detention facility at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp of Joint Task Force Guantanamo on the U.S. Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The first twenty captives arrived at Guantanamo on January 11 2002.[1][2] It was named Camp X-Ray because various temporary camps in the station were named sequentially from the beginning and then from the end of the NATO phonetic alphabet. The legal status of detainees at the camp has been a significant source of controversy, ultimately reaching the United States Supreme Court.
As of April 29, 2002, the official Camp X-Ray was closed and all prisoners were transferred to Camp Delta.
Background
Care of detainees at Camp X-Ray was handled by Joint Task Force 160 (JTF-160), while interrogations were conducted by Joint Task Force 170 (JTF-170).[3][4][5][6] JTF-160 was under the command of Marine Brigadier General Michael R. Lehnert until March 2002, when he was replaced by Brigadier General Rick Baccus. Since Camp X-Ray's closure and the subsequent opening of Camp Delta, JTF-160 and 170 have been combined into Joint Task Force Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO).
In accordance with U.S. military and Geneva Convention doctrine on prisoner treatment, soldiers guarding the detainees were housed in tents with living conditions "not markedly different" from that of the prisoners while the permanent facilities at Camp Delta were under construction.[7] This camp was one location where allegations of torture of the prisoners have been made. [8][9]
Camp X-Ray was originally built to house "Excludables" in the mid 1990's when Fidel Castro allowed any Cuban wishing to, to cross through the Cuban minefields and enter the base. Excludables were held in camp X-ray under post 37 before being sent back to Cuba. Excludables included-trouble makers in the regular camps where CASs - Cuban Asylem Seekers - were being processed to travel to the USA, for example AIDS victims, Rapists, and Murderers. (The USA were at the time allowed access to Cuban records to process these people). Over 100,000 CAS people were processed in the mid 1990s and allowed to enter the USA.
Forensic examination
According to Carol Rosenberg, writing for the Miami Herald, Camp X-Ray was visited by a court-ordered forensic FBI team in November 2009.[10] The team spent a week photographing the camp and searching for evidence of abuse of prisoners.
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- ^ Jim Garamone (2002-01-15). "50 Detainees now at Gitmo; All Treated Humanely". Department of Defense. Archived from the original on 2009-07-29. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.defenselink.mil%2Fnews%2Fnewsarticle.aspx%3Fid%3D43858&date=2009-07-29. Retrieved 2009-07-29.
- ^ Victoria Clarke (2002-01-15). "DoD News Briefing - ASD PA Clarke and Rear Adm. Stufflebeem". Department of Defense. Archived from the original on 2009-07-29. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.defenselink.mil%2Ftranscripts%2Ftranscript.aspx%3Ftranscriptid%3D2085&date=2009-07-29. Retrieved 2009-07-29.
- ^ Stephen Robinson (2009-03-22). "The Least Worst Place: How Guantanamo Became the World's Most Notorious Prison by Karen Greenberg". The Times. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article5939446.ece. Retrieved 2009-03-23.
- ^ Karen J. Greenberg (2009-01-25). "When Gitmo Was (Relatively) Good". Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/23/AR2009012302313.html. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
- ^ Karen J. Greenberg (March 2009). The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100 Days. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195371888. http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Politics/AmericanPolitics/ForeignDefensePolicy/?view=usa&ci=9780195371888. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
- ^ Karen J. Greenberg (2009-01-26). "Outlook: When Gitmo Was (Relatively) Good". Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/01/23/DI2009012302995.html. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
- ^ "Interview: Thomas Berg". PBS Frontline. October 18, 2005. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/torture/interviews/berg.html. Retrieved 2008-09-01.
- ^ Daniel McGrory (2004-10-02). "Camp X-Ray Briton tells of his ‘torture’". Times Newspapers Ltd. (UK). http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article489311.ece. Retrieved 2009=03-28.
- ^ Paisley Dodds (2003-10-09). "Dark Age torture at Camp X-ray". Irish Examiner. http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/2003/10/09/story404882346.asp. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
- ^ Carol Rosenberg (2009-11-15). "U.S. plans for end of Guantánamo prison camps". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on 2009-11-16. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.miamiherald.com%2Fnews%2Famericas%2Fguantanamo%2Fv-print%2Fstory%2F1335533.html&date=2009-11-16.
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