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[[Image:050127 guantanamo hmed 12p hmedium.jpg|right|thumb|300px]]The '''Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp''' is a military [[prison]] of the [[United States of America]] on the southeastern tip of the island of [[Cuba]]. In this prison, suspected [[terrorists ]] / ''[[enemy combatants]]'' can be held indefinitely without charge, trial or a right to counseltrial.<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,201315123996,00.html Official: Gitmo Prisoners Wage 'Jihad' in Cuba] [[Fox News]], June 28, 2006</ref><ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,123996,00.html ; Mixed Rulings on Terror Detention Policies] [[Fox News]], June 28, 2004]</ref> The [[liberal]] organization [[Center for Constitutional Rights]] is organizing attorneys to file [[habeas corpus]] petitions in the Washington, D.C., federal court on behalf of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay. <ref>[http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/reports/report.asp?ObjID=pQOvjcVXXK&Content=406 First post-Supreme Court habeas petitions filed on behalf of detainees at Guantanamo Bay], [[Center for Constitutional Rights]], 2004.</ref>

On April 2, 2007, the [[U.S. Supreme Court ]] denied appeals by a group of detainees of this camp, with the majority stating that it would be inappropriate to rule until the group had exhausted other remedies.<ref>[[Withdraw of Jurisdiction Upheld - Original Work|Supreme Court rules against detainees]]</ref><ref>Congressional Research Service Report [http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL33180.pdf Enemy Combatant Detainees: Habeas Corpus Challenges in Federal Court], updated April 6, 2007.]</ref> [[Barack Hussein Obama]] often tried to close the camp,<ref>http://frontpagemag.com/2013/alan-w-dowd/obamas-renewed-war-on-guantanamo/</ref> although he ultimately failed.

Guantanamo Bay is a coastal area on southeastern [[Cuba]] occupied and controlled by the United States government pursuant to a 1903 Lease Agreement with the newly independent Republic of Cuba subsequent to the Spanish-American War. The Agreement established that:<ref>{{cquote| ''Rasul v. Bush'', 542 U.S. 466 (2004) (quoting lease).</ref> :"While the United States recognizes the continuance of the ultimate sovereignty of the Republic of Cuba over the [leased areas]," but "the Republic of Cuba consents that during the period of the occupation by the United States . . . the United States shall exercise complete jurisdiction and control over and within said areas."  In 1934 the United States and Cuba entered into another treaty that provided that, absent an agreement to modify or abrogate the lease, it would remain in effect "[s]o long as the United States of America shall not abandon the . . . Naval Station of Guantanamo."<ref>''Id.''</ref>}}

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*[http://www.defenselink.mil/home/features/Detainee_Affairs/ US Dept of Defence Defense site] *[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118217520339739055.html?mod=mm_main_promo_left The Prison Terrorist Poets Of Guantanamo Find a Publisher] 

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