Saturday, December 6, 2008

Daily Life In Gitmo Is Full Of Routines


From Yahoo News/AP:

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba – For many of the detainees of Guantanamo Bay's Camp 4, the day begins before dawn.

The men, wearing flip-flops and clothes resembling doctors' scrubs, shuffle out of their cells into the cool night air. A diminutive detainee in a white scull cap stands by a fence, clears his throat, tilts his head skyward and calls out the first prayer of the day.

The detainees gather as guards look on from a watchtower above the barracks-like prison blocks — a routine event in a routine day for the roughly 250 men at Guantanamo Bay. The days have turned into months, and months into years. By January, some of the men will have been locked up on this U.S. military base in Cuba for seven years.

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