{"id":30754,"date":"2013-03-22T11:57:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T10:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/03\/22\/294768\/us-plans-another-gitmo-prison-site\/"},"modified":"2013-03-22T11:57:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T10:57:29","slug":"us-plans-another-gitmo-prison-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-plans-another-gitmo-prison-site\/","title":{"rendered":"US plans another Gitmo prison site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\">A detainee is carried by military police after being interrogated by officials at Camp X-Ray at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (File photo)<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>The US military\u2019s southern command plans to build a new prison quarters at the notorious Guantanamo Bay military base for \u201cspecial\u201d detainees.<\/p>\n<p>The United States Southern Command has asked for USD 49 million to construct a new jail at the Guantanamo military prison and torture facility for \u201cspecial\u201d inmates and other required renovations \u201csince Congress has decided to keep it open indefinitely,\u201d <em>The New York Times<\/em> reports Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The amount, if approved, would bring the taxpayer cost for upgrading the deteriorating prison camp to an estimated USD 196 million, the report adds, citing military officials.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The project is reportedly a proposed replacement for Camp 7, where the so-called high-value inmates that were previously held by the CIA spy agency are housed, such as Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, the accused architect of the 9\/11 incidents in New York and Virginia in 2001.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nWhile the existence of Camp 7 has been widely reported, the US military still refuses to discuss it or allow visits to the notorious prison and torture site.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration has failed to shut down the prison camp despite the repeated pledges made for closing the facility before and immediately after being elected into office.<\/p>\n<p>MFB\/MFB<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span>A detainee is carried by military police after being interrogated by officials at Camp X-Ray at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (File photo)<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The US military&rsquo;s southern command plans to build a new prison quarters at the notorious Guantanamo Bay military base for &ldquo;special&rdquo; detainees.<\/p>\n<p>The United States Southern Command has asked for USD 49 million to construct a new jail at the Guantanamo military prison and torture facility for &ldquo;special&rdquo; inmates and other required renovations &ldquo;since Congress has decided to keep it open indefinitely,&rdquo; <em>The New York Times<\/em> reports Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The amount, if approved, would bring the taxpayer cost for upgrading the deteriorating prison camp to an estimated USD 196 million, the report adds, citing military officials.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The project is reportedly a proposed replacement for Camp 7, where the so-called high-value inmates that were previously held by the CIA spy agency are housed, such as Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, the accused architect of the 9\/11 incidents in New York and Virginia in 2001.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nWhile the existence of Camp 7 has been widely reported, the US military still refuses to discuss it or allow visits to the notorious prison and torture site.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration has failed to shut down the prison camp despite the repeated pledges made for closing the facility before and immediately after being elected into office.<\/p>\n<p>MFB\/MFB<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}