Secret Prison
Feb 7th, 2008 at 6:05 am by Susie
You’ll notice it took a foreign paper to break this story:
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - Somewhere
amid the cactus-studded hills on this sprawling Navy base,
separate from the cells where hundreds of men suspected of
links to al-Qaida and the Taliban have been locked up for
years, is a place even more closely guarded - a jailhouse
so protected that its very location is top secret.For the first time, the top commander of detention operations
at Guantanamo has confirmed the existence of the mysterious
Camp 7. In an interview with The Associated Press, Rear Adm.
Mark Buzby also provided a few details about the maximum-
security lockup.Guantanamo commanders said Camp 7 is for key alleged
al-Qaida members, who must be kept apart from other
prisoners to prevent them from retaliating against long-
term detainees who have talked to interrogators. They also
want the location kept secret for fear of terrorist attack.[...] Camp 7, where 15 “high-value detainees” are held, is so
secret that its very existence was not publicly known until
it was mentioned in December by attorneys for Majid Khan, a
former Baltimore resident who allegedly plotted to bomb gas
stations in the United States. Previously, many observers
believed the 15 were being held in Camps 5 or 6, which are
maximum-security facilities.
