Guantanamo Bay Detention Centre Guantanamo Bay is a detention camp in Cuba that holds back and interrogates people who are thought to be terrorists. History Before 2001‚ the Guantanamo Bay detention facility was used for housing refugees from Haiti and Cuba. This became and illegal act after 1993. Guantanamo Bay was reopened in 2002 as a result of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US. On 11 September 2001 (9/11)‚ four planes were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists. There were over 3000 deaths
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at Guantanamo Bay As part of the United States judicial system‚ Guantanamo Bay detention center was formed under the Bush administration‚ in result of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Guantanamo Bay is a detainment facility that the United States designed to detain terrorists‚ and enemies caught during war. The facility also is used for the U.S. to interrogate criminals‚ and terrorists with military tactics. This detainment facility is located on a United States naval base in Guantanamo Bay‚ Cuba
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Guantanamo Bay is a prison area near Cuba and is controlled by the American Navy. After the September 11‚ 2001 terrorist attack in the US‚ the US forces picked up about 600 people from various parts of the world and imprisoned them in the Guantanamo Bay prison on charges of aiding or involvement in this terrorist attack. In most cases‚ the governments of the countries to which these prisoners belonged were neither informed or was permission taken. It was done in such secrecy that even the families
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Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo)is an essential base for the United States of America and should stay open for many reasons. Some people believe the base is unethical‚ not on american soil and costs to much‚ and for those reasons want it closed. I would argue because what those terrorists did was unethical and they should get a taste of what they did. Gitmo needs to stay in Cuba because I sure don’t want a terrorist escaping and knocking at my door. An article from boston.com‚ “Obama orders Guantanamo
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Anthony Ognibene Close Down Guantanamo Bay When discussing the importance of the Guantanamo Bay criminal detention facility located in Cuba‚ the 39th President of the United States Jimmy Carter stated that‚ “I think what ’s going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn ’t say it ’s the cause of terrorism‚ but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.” President Obama has vowed at the
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the Detention center in Guantanamo Bay. One of the main questions that are being asked is whether or not the detention at Guantanamo bay Is unconstitutional. One other key Point that has been raised in the possible closing of Guantanamo bay is where will the detainees go if it is closed. In order to better understand the reasoning behind this detention we must look at the reason for the detention in the first place. For the detainees that are being kept on Guantanamo bay They are there do to being
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There is a time before and after the events on 9/11. And that events were the reason why the Guantanamo Bay prison was established in January 2002And after the events the United States of America started the ’’War on Terror’’ by hunting down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts‚" . The goverment tried to make illegal things legal. They ignore the fact that there is a given treatment to prisoner of war. The US government tried to justify torture. Alberto R. Gonzales who was the
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Guantanamo Bay The United States detention facility located at Guantanamo Bay‚ Cuba was opened in 2002 by George W. Bush to hold enemy combatants from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. There are currently three sections in Guantanamo Bay: Camp Delta‚ Camp Echo‚ and Camp Iguana. Insurgents are kept at Guantanamo Bay for a variety of reasons and there are CIA interrogators at the camp to gather information. On January 22‚ 2009‚ President Obama signed an executive order closing the Guantanamo Bay detention
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Guantanamo Bay‚ the place where there is closure in closing.´ The existence of Guantanamo Bay is a legal and ethical mess‚ because of the fact that the torture camp breaks international law‚ Habeas Corpus‚ the 18th amendment‚ the Geneva Convention and many many humans rights organizations all around the world. WHAT IS GUANTANAMO BAY? Guantanamo Bay is the torture camp that the United States opened and is still currently operating on the Guantanamo Bay in cuba. The Guantanamo bay prison camp has
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Because Guantanamo Bay is completely controlled by the U.S. but not actually a part of the United States‚ laws including any regarding human rights ceased to apply there (Friedman 82). According to Ardiente‚ this may be what justified military personnel or others working there to interrogate the way they did. Military doctors have admitted to giving information about detainees’ mental health in order to use it for cooperation of manipulation; the Pentagon has denied such claims (Ardiente 2).
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