How many prisoners are detained by USA adminstration in Guantanamo?
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" About 500 prisoners remain at Guantanamo, many of them captured in Afghanistan. Some have been held for nearly four years without charge.   \n\nUnited Nations officials have been trying to visit the camp since it opened in 2002 but have only been offered restricted access, which it has rejected."\n\nSource: BBC News\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4541056.stm\n(Last Updated: Monday, 19 December 2005, 06:07 GMT )\n\n\n"Approximately 505 men remain in long-term indefinite detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The United States continues to assert authority to hold “enemy combatants” without charges and without regard to the laws of armed conflict as long as the war on terror continues.  \n \nIn March 2005, the Pentagon completed a one-time administrative review of each detainee at Guantanamo to determine whether he should be considered an “enemy combatant.” The proceedings were stacked against the detainees: they were presumed to be enemy combatants, were denied the assistance of counsel, were not able to bring in outside witnesses, and were not able to see all of the evidence against them. All but thirty-eight of the detainees were deemed enemy combatants (most of the thirty-eight are believed to be Uighurs from China). The Pentagon is also conducting annual reviews to determine if an enemy combatant is no longer a threat or useful for intelligence-gathering purposes and can be released. Neither U.S. domestic law nor international laws of war authorize such grounds for indefinite detention."  \n\nSource: Human Rights Watch\nhttp://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/01/18/usdom12292.htm#Guantanamo%20Bay%20and%20Military%20Commissions
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I haven't seen a whole lot of information released about the prisoners being held in Gitmo. I don't subscribe to your assumptions about the people that are being held there. I think we don't really know who they are or what their involvment with terrorism actually is. The government might know but I haven't seen any information released.\n\nI'm also not convinced that if we released them all they would have written home and told their relatives how great America is. The 'greatness' of America and the Western world is a significant part of the problem for Islamic Extremists.\n\nYour statement is, in my opinion, naive. You assume that everyone is like you. That everyone holds the same values that you do.
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I assume you want US POW/MIA?\n\nCheck out the PDF files on the US Defence Prisoner of War/Missing personel Office\n\nhttp://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/\n\nThey update the files regularly as people become accounted for.\nAccording to this file it is 1807 still missing.\nhttp://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/pmsea/Stats20060124.pdf
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First secret prisons, maybe for terrorest who are arrested outside the US,  there are no civil rights people who are not american citizens outside the US.  Only those rights of the Geneva Convenction, (human rights)\n\nWe are trying to judge military prisons or prisioners of war under the wrong idea of what they are, they do not, never did get consititional rights.\n\nEven in WWII, the US took away the constitutional rightrs of Japanise americans and put them in camps and they lost thier property in the US during this time.\n\nAnd no people are not spying on liberals, why they tell more than they know to start with.  The only spying is to track and trace telephone calls of posible terroest links ( and emails and regular mail)  \n\nMerely alot of issues taken out of context by the opposing public party that cares little about destroying our war effort if they can win an election.
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"Human rights are not only a promise unfulfilled, they are a promise betrayed" (Irene Khan, AI's Secretary General"\n\nIn November 2005, National Public Radio (NPR) reported allegations of abuse of immigration detainees held at three New Jersey jails, including Passaic Jail and Hudson County Correctional Center. They included claims that two prisoners were beaten while handcuffed and that others were bitten by guard dogs. AI had reported on similar abuses in 2003. Most of the alleged victims in the NPR report were deported before investigations could be completed. The Department of Homeland Security said it was reviewing various contract detention facilities but did not confirm which jails were covered in the review.\n\nThere were reports of ill-treatment and deaths in custody involving “new generation” tasers: powerful dart-firing electroshock weapons deployed or trialled by more than 5,000 US police and correctional agencies. More than 40 people died after being struck by US police tasers, bringing to more than 70 the total number of such deaths reported since 2001. While coroners generally attributed cause of death to factors such as drug intoxication, in at least five cases they found the taser played a role.\n\nMost of the people who died were unarmed men who did not appear to pose a serious threat when they were electroshocked. Many were subjected to multiple shocks and some to additional force such as pepper spray or dangerous restraint holds, including hogtying (placing someone face-down with their hands and feet bound together from behind).\n\nThere were reports that tasers were used by officers routinely to shock people who were mentally disturbed or simply refused to obey commands. Children and the elderly were among those shocked. In most such cases, the officers involved were cleared of wrongdoing. In some departments tasers had become the most common force tool used by officers against a wide range of suspects.\n\nAI reiterated its call on the US authorities to suspend use and transfers of tasers and other stun weapons pending a rigorous, independent inquiry into their use and effects.
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this man portrays himself as a dictator, like his word is everything, how can we call those who kidnap in war kidnappers, when bush calls the people we are holding,  detainees, is he not the same?\n\nthey hold people to prisoners, and we hold people prisoners, but we call what they do something else it makes americans feel like they are different then the otherside fighting for their beliefs..
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Guantanamo Bay is a US Military base in Cuba.  It is NOT on sovereign US territory.\n\nNo one has ever been tortured there.
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You could either contact your local law enforcement and get as much information from them or you can check out this website and see if this helps you at all.\n\nhttp://hrw.org/doc/?t=usa_prisons&document_limit=100,20
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It is generally in the interests of the US to abide in the hope that its opponents will treat US soldiers well in exchange.\n\nHowever, since terrorists are not lawful combatants and do not reciprocate good treatment the US should be following its own consicence in the matter. Guantanamo isn't an example of this because of the first point I made. Moreover, by most accounts the inmates there are fed well and regularly, clothed, allowed religious practice and visits from rights monitors to some extent. This is more than has happened for combatants in most wars - Vietnam and North Korea didn't grant access to US POWs for example.\n\nThe US is doing well in this regard, despite the silly and historically stupid 'Gulag' comparison of an Amnesty report - that wil forever haunt AI, as it was once an genuinely non-partisan and worthy organisation.
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He should be locked up. He is dangerous. Are you writing from the U.S.? Aren't the jails overcrowded there? Maybe this is why he couldn't be jailed.
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A UN report condemns 'torture' at the detention camp. But, like other revelations in the 'war on terror', the reaction is to deplore the publicity and ignore the brutality. In the US, meanwhile, the report barely registered with a media industry still obsessed with Dick Cheney's shooting accident. It got even less attention than the disclosure, earlier last week, of new photographs of the 2003 abuse in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq which were more shocking than any seen before. Although the evidence reinforced the belief in much of the world that both Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo are symptoms of American disregard for any rules in the "war on terror", none of this was reflected in major US newspapers, which put reports on the new photographs on inside pages, and did not print any of them. The Bush administration was able to brush off both the Iraq and the Guantanamo affairs. \n\nhttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13597.htm
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Yes, we've risen to new heights of incompetence.  If it is clear that each prisoner is a terrorist, it should be quick work to charge them, try them, and throw them into real jails (military or otherwise).  What is so unreasonable or difficult about that?\n\nBut it's taken more than 4 years to charge a tiny handful, and finally send a few never-charged people home.  While we don't seem to be able to get our stuff sufficiently together even to CHARGE the vast majority after all this time.\n\nIt's obviously incoherent.  I think the gov't is embarrassed to admit it's clueless about most of these prisoners (who mostly seem to be there based on snap decisions by soldiers in the field, as far as we can tell).  What do you say to people you've imprisoned for 4 years with no visitation by their families when you finally decide you have no basis to hold them and need to send them home?  Better to drag it out.  Maybe some evidence will turn up, or they will commit suicide or something.
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WE are a signatory nation in the Geneva Conventions, and reading them, they apply not just to us, but anybody we fight against...pretty much so long as they openly carry a weapon and shoot at us.  Rounding up the local apple salesman of some Afghan village because the local peach salesman took $20 to tip off the local police does NOT make him a terrorist.  It makes us look very stupid for holding him for 4 years.\n\nThough I'm sure there's 3 or 4 really dangerous guys in Gitmo...TRIAL THEM and LOCK THEM UP FOR REAL.  That's how we work, that's how we've always work.  That's what the Bill of Rights says...those first 10 are INALIENABLE RIGHTS.  Rights we can't take away or grant because they inherently exist for ALL HUMAN BEINGS.\n\nTorturing ANYONE and holding ANYONE without trial is a massive violation to our Constitution.  Bush WILL be in handcuffs for this sooner or later.
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He said he did it.  Duh!  And more than that the terrorists captured that couldn't make it with the rest were linked to Bin Laden.\n\nAnd, since Bin Laden isn't an American citizen (Thank goodness!) he isn't entitled to the right layed out in the constitution.
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Cuba still lets the USA use Guantanamo bay as a Navy base, and the States had to ask and recieve permission to house prisoners there. I suspect there might be closer ties than either side admits. ?But then again I am just a paranoid conspiracy theorist.
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Yes, this is true.  They are moving the remaining prisoners there to another prison.  It's due to the media involvement and the actions of the military at that particular place.
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Guantanamo Bay Prison