The Guantanamo Bay detainment camp

A community portal about The Guantanamo Bay detainment camp with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Guantánamo Bay detainment camp serves as a joint military prison and interrogation center under the leadership of Joint Task Force Guantanamo and has occupied a portion of the United States Navy's base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba since 2002. The prison holds people suspected by the Executive branch of the U.S. government of being al-Qaeda and Taliban operatives, but with some people no longer considered suspects who are being held pending relocation elsewhere. The prisoners were captured in Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world.

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Second Guantanamo inmate to be tried in US

From: afp.com

The US administration is to transfer a second inmate from the Guantanamo Bay prison for trial in a US federal court, legal documents said Friday.

Mohammed Jawad, who was arrested as a minor in Afghanistan in 2002, is accused of throwing a grenade at a US convoy in the country.

His lawyers say he was just 12 at the time of his arrest, while the Pentagon says he was 16 or 17.

"In light of the multiple eyewitness accounts that were not previously available for inclusion in the record -- including videotaped interviews -- as well as third-party statements," the government has decided to prosecute the case, the documents said.

But the documents said Jawad would not be immediately transferred to the United States.

Tanzanian national Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, who was transferred to the United States on June 9, became the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be sent to a US court for a civilian trial. His case is proceeding in a New York court.

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