US opens new Guantanamo camp jail

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6219942.stm

US opens new Guantanamo camp jail

Guantanamo Bay's old wire-fence cells are being phased out
The US has begun moving terror suspects detained at Guantanamo Bay into a new $37m (£19m) maximum-security prison.
Forty-two prisoners were transferred from another high-security facility on the US naval base in eastern Cuba, the Associated Press reported.

The new 178-cell prison will allow commanders to close the wire-fence camp originally built for early detainees.

The US holds some 430 men at Guantanamo Bay on suspicion of links to al-Qaeda or the Taleban, most without charge.

UN human rights investigators and foreign governments have called on the US government to close the entire detention centre.

But the new facility has been built to provide more permanent secure accommodation for those judged to be "enemy combatants" and detained by the US military.

[Voltaire99]

1. Camp Shame. (nt)

[EFerrari]

2. $37 million for fewer than 200 beds.

Okay.