Bushists Building a "Yucca Mountain" for Humans at Guantanamo

[BurtWorm]

Evidently planning to snatch terrorists out of commission whereever they are in the world and hold them at Gitmo indefinitely.


http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2004/041004-gitmo.htm


Legal Times October 04, 2004

U.S. Building New Prisons for Terrorists
Construction of Guantanamo jails signals long-term plans for base

In-Depth Coverage
By Vanessa Blum

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- The government is building for the long haul in the war on terror.

The Defense Department plans to construct a permanent medium-security prison facility here as part of an effort to transform the U.S. naval base from a makeshift detention camp to a state-of-the-art penitentiary for terrorist agents the government considers too dangerous to set free.

The 200-bed compound, known as Camp Six, is expected to cost $24 million and will be the base's second permanent prison structure. The first, a 100-cell, super-max style facility known as Camp Five, opened in April.

Together, the two structures represent the future of Guantanamo Bay, which is being retooled to house those prisoners found to pose a continuing threat to the United States.

"If your threat level is high and your intelligence value is high, you're probably going to live here for awhile," says Army Brig. Gen. Martin Lucenti, deputy commanding general of the joint task force in charge of detentions at Guantanamo Bay.

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Military law expert Eugene Fidell says the administration may still be figuring out how to use the naval base most effectively. "Guantanamo Bay has been a prison in search of a theme, and it's continuing to morph," says Fidell, a partner in the D.C. office of Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell. "What it's morphing into now is the human equivalent of Yucca Mountain radioactive waste facility -- built to last 10,000 years."

[kerry-is-my-prez]

1. Gee I hope it's nice - we'll probably all be there down the road....

....along with all the other "enemies of the state," the intellectuals, all the journalists who don't tow the company line. That is - if Bush should happen to weasel his way back in.