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Guantánamo
Guantánamo is a municipality and city in southeast Cuba and capital of Guantánamo Province.
Guantánamo is served by the Caimanera port near the site of a U.S. naval base. The area produces sugarcane and cotton wool. These are traditional parts of the economy.
History
The city was founded in 1797 in the area of a farm named Santa Catalina. The toponym "Guantánamo" means, in Taíno language, "land between the rivers".
Geography
Overview
The municipality is mountainous in the north, at Humboldt National Park, where it overlays the Sierra Maestra (mountains), and borders the Windward Passage of the Caribbean Sea in the south. It is crossed by the Bano, Guantánamo, Yateras, Guaso, San Andrés and Sabanalamar rivers. The city is spread with a square plan and is crossed in the middle by the Carretera Central highway. Guantánamo Bay is a natural harbour south of it.
The municipality borders with El Salvador, Niceto Pérez, Caimanera, Yateras, Manuel Tames and Sagua de Tánamo; this one in Holguín Province. It counts the villages of Argeo Martínez, Arroyo Hondo, Glorieta, Las Lajas and Paraguay.
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U.S. Said to Have Tapes of Alleged 9/11 Mastermind Plotting With Co-Conspirators
New York Times 26 Mar 2019
The existence of the tapes of discussions involving Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was disclosed by defense lawyers in the case being tried at Guantánamo Bay ... ....
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Once Jailed in Guantánamo, 5 Taliban Now Face U.S. at the Negotiating Table
New York Times 26 Mar 2019
The Taliban made a point of building their team around the five ex-detainees. But one insists that they have put bitterness aside to try to end the Afghan war ... ....
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letter: The 9/11 Tapes
New York Times 26 Mar 2019
Lorie Van Auken, whose husband was killed at the World Trade Center, asks why the existence of the plotters’ phone calls has been concealed until now ... ....
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Canadian judge says ex-Guantanamo inmate's war crimes sentence has expired
Reuters 25 Mar 2019
A judge ruled on Monday that the war crimes sentence of a Canadian man formerly held at U.S. military base Guantanamo Bay in Cuba has expired, making Omar Khadr a free man ... ....
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Omar Khadr: Ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee's sentence ruled expired
BBC News 25 Mar 2019
A Canadian court has ruled that a former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr sentence has expired ... ....
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Canadian ex-Guantanamo detainee completely free: court
This is Money 25 Mar 2019
A Canadian judge has lifted all remaining conditions on Omar Khadr, once Guantanamo's youngest detainee. A Canadian judge lifted Monday all remaining restrictions on former Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr, who had been the US detention center in Cuba's youngest prisoner after his 2002 capture in Afghanistan....
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UN experts say accounts detail Guantanamo torture
Information Clearing House 20 Mar 2019
By Associated Press. 06/23/05 "AP" - - U.N. human rights experts said Thursday they have reliable accounts of detainees being tortured at the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba ... That request was made in April ... officials so far have allowed only the International Committee of the Red Cross to visit Guantanamo detainees ... Copyright....
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US Military Gives Details of Mishandling of Koran at Guantanamo
Information Clearing House 20 Mar 2019
By VOA News (Voice Of America). 04 June 2005. . The U.S. military Friday released the details of five incidents in which guards mishandled the Koran at the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba ... The U.S ... General Hood says the investigation found that mishandling the Koran was rare, and never condoned ... Translate this page....
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'No top terrorists at Guantanamo'
Information Clearing House 20 Mar 2019
06/22/04 "The Telegraph" -- Senior American intelligence and military officials directly contradicted the Bush administration yesterday, saying not a single detainee at Guantanamo Bay was a high-ranking terrorist ... that Guantanamo interrogations foiled imminent terrorist attacks....
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Interrogations Faked at Guantanamo, Witness Says
Information Clearing House 20 Mar 2019
04/28/05 - - Authorities at Guantanamo Bay staged interrogations of detainees for visiting politicians and generals to give the impression that valuable intelligence was regularly being gathered, according to a former Army translator at the camp ... Saar worked at Guantanamo from December 2002 to June 2003....
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I Stand In Solidarity With The Prisoners Of Guantanamo
Information Clearing House 20 Mar 2019
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Guantanamo inmates commit suicide
Information Clearing House 20 Mar 2019
06/11/06 "The Observer" -- -- Three detainees at the US base at Guantanamo Bay were found dead in their cells today in an apparent joint suicide pact ... 'There are people there [in Guantanamo] who are increasingly despairing ... 'The people held at Guantanamo are there for the rest of their lives as far as they're concerned ... . ... HOME....
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US ran Guantanamo-style prison in Kosovo
Information Clearing House 20 Mar 2019
11/25/05 "Forbes" -- -- PARIS (AFX) - The US military ran a Guantanamo Bay-type detention centre in Kosovo, a top Council of Europe official said ... The official leading the probe said Friday that Romania, which rights groups have labelled a likely site for one of the secret centres, was not hosting a large, Guantanamo-style jail....
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