National Security

11 of first 20 captives taken Guantánamo still there

Carol Rosenberg - Miami Herald

January 16, 2014 10:57 AM

Army PFC Jodi Smith, a soldier with the military police, stands perimeter watch while the first 20 detainees undergo in-processing at Camp X-Ray, at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay.
Army PFC Jodi Smith, a soldier with the military police, stands perimeter watch while the first 20 detainees undergo in-processing at Camp X-Ray, at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay. US Navy
Army PFC Jodi Smith, a soldier with the military police, stands perimeter watch while the first 20 detainees undergo in-processing at Camp X-Ray, at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay. US Navy

Twelve years ago, U.S. troops shuffled 20 men in chains and orange jumpsuits off a cargo plane at Guantánamo — dubbed “the worst of the worst” of America’s captives in the nascent war on terror — to launch an experiment in interrogation and detention unbounded by geography or the U.S. courts.

No one knew what would become of them. Not the U.S. military. Not President George W. Bush. Not them.

Nine of them are gone now. The rest includes three men who are cleared to go, committed hunger strikers, three Taliban and a war criminal serving a life sentence on a questionable conspiracy conviction for peddling al-Qaida propaganda.

Read more at the Herald: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/01/12/3867091/11-of-first-20-captives-to-arrive.html

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