US shuts once-secret Guantanamo prison unit, moves prisoners

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A once-secret unit within the Guantanamo Bay detention center that had fallen into disrepair has been closed and the prisoners moved to another facility on the American base in Cuba, the U.S. military said Sunday.

The prisoners at Camp 7 were transferred to a facility adjacent to where the other detainees on the base are held as part of what U.S. Southern Command said in a statement was an effort to “increase operational efficiency and effectiveness.”

Miami-based Southern Command, which oversees the detention center at the southeastern edge of Cuba, did not say how many prisoners were moved. Officials have previously said about 14 men were held in Camp 7. There are 40 prisoners at Guantanamo.

Southern Command said the Camp 7 prisoners were moved to Camp 5 “safely and without incident,” but did not say when the transfer occurred. Camp 5, which was largely empty, is next to Camp 6, where the other detainees are held.

https://apnews.com/article/politics-cuba-prisons-50ca960d4ff4f6dde2b783256f7feefd

[gratuitous]

1. Close the whole thing and give the base back to Cuba

This indefinite detention without charge or trial is against everything the United States is supposed to stand for.

[malaise]

7. THIS

[kimbutgar]

2. Making room for the January 6th insurrectionists ?

I would love to see those terrorist traitors sent to that island.

[MuseRider]

3. Thumbs up!

Best plan ever. They thought it was great for the prisoners there then they should try it a bit. Maybe feed them food they don't like or are against their religion or dietary choices, hose them down now and again and segregate them into small groups or solitary.

[keithbvadu2]

9. Send the phony shaman?

[niyad]

4. I was thinking I want the whole sordid mess closed down, but I do like your idea. My plan for

the insurrectionists involves dropping them all off on a deserted island, far from shipping lanes and other land, and just let them fend for themselves. No provisions of any kind. No tools. No nothing,

Lord of the Flies, anyone?

[keithbvadu2]

10. Give them lots of guns.

And the only visitors allowed are missionaries with no supplies.

[malaise]

8. Why?

Lock them up in the US

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. Shut the whole thing down.

[2naSalit]

11. Make room for the insurrectionists.