Detainees walk around the exercise yard in Camp 4, the medium security facility within Camp Delta at Naval Station Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Photo: Department of DefenseGuantanamo Detainees Get New $750G Soccer Field -- FOX News
At a time of record deficits, a new soccer field for detainees at Camp 6 in Guantanamo Bay is just getting the finishing touches -- at a cost of $750,000 to taxpayers.
The project was the highlight of a tour Tuesday of the detention camp for reporters at the facility covering the arraignment in a military court of Majid Khan, a former Baltimore resident and the the only legal U.S. resident on trial at Guantanamo.
The project began in April 2011 and is due to finish this spring. The detainees will now have three recreation facilities at Camp 6, which is home to "highly compliant" detainees who live in a communal setting.
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Update #1: Some Guantanamo detainees will soon get a new soccer field as prison becomes less makeshift -- Washington Post/AP
Update #2: Gitmo camp set to open $750,000 soccer field for detainees -- Washington Free Beacon
My Comment: Some have been calling Guantanamo Bay prison 'Club Gitmo' .... and guess what .... after reading this story this is what this prison probably should now be called.
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