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Coordinates: 19°54′09″N, 75°05′57″W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...

A Camp Delta recreation and exercise area at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The detention block is shown with sunshades drawn on December 3, 2002.
A Camp Delta recreation and exercise area at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The detention block is shown with sunshades drawn on December 3, 2002.

Camp Delta, situated at 19°54′09″N, 75°05′57″W, composed of detention camps 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and Camp Echo, is a permanent 612-unit detention center at Guantanamo Bay that replaced the temporary facilities of Camp X-Ray. It was built between February 27 and mid-April 2002 by Navy Seabees, Marine Engineers, and workers from Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root. Download high resolution version (900x595, 213 KB)A Camp Delta recreation and exercise area at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. ... Download high resolution version (900x595, 213 KB)A Camp Delta recreation and exercise area at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. ... December 3 is the 337th (in leap years the 338th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Camp Echo is one of six detention camps that make up the main Camp Delta, at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, run by the United States military. ... Detainees upon arrival at Camp X-Ray, January 2002 Guantánamo Bay detainment camp serves as a joint military prison and interrogation center under the leadership of Joint Task Force Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO), has occupied a portion of the United States Navys base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba since 2002. ... Camp X-Ray, shown here under construction, was a temporary holding facility for detainees held at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. ... February 27 is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... The Seabees are the Construction Battalions of the United States Navy. ... Halliburton Energy Services (NYSE: HAL) is a multinational corporation with operations in over 120 countries. ... KBR (formerly Kellogg Brown and Root) NYSE: KBR is an American engineering and construction company, formerly a subsidiary of Halliburton, based in Houston. ...


Most of the security force are U.S. Army military police, and U.S. Navy Masters-at-Arms. A Master-at-Arms (MAA) is a rating responsible for discipline aboard a naval ship. ...


Prisoners are first sent to Camp 3, the maximum security camp. Detainees who cooperate with their guards are moved to Camp 2, then, after more co-operation, to Camp 1. Prisoners who are considered to show no security risk and cooperate with interrogators are moved to Camp 4.


Camp 4 buildings have a shower and lavatory, plus four communal living rooms for 10 prisoners each. Each detainee has a bed and a locker for items such as diaries and books. Camp 4 has small, common recreational areas for playing board games and team sports. Detainees at Camp 4 share communal meals, and wear white instead of orange.[1]

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March 25 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (85th in leap years). ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... April 24 is the 114th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (115th in leap years). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... April 30 is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (121st in leap years), with 245 days remaining. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... May 9 is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (130th in leap years). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The New York Times is a newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ... June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 193 days remaining. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Reuters Group plc (LSE: RTR and NASDAQ: RTRSY); pron. ... March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (63rd in leap years). ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

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March 12 is the 71st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (72nd in leap years). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Lebanese political coalition, see March 14 Alliance. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Lebanese political coalition, see March 14 Alliance. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... March 6 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (66th in Leap years). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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Camp X-Ray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3698 words)
It was named Camp X-Ray because various temporary camps in the station were named sequentially from the beginning and then from the end of the NATO phonetic alphabet.
As of April 29, 2002, the official Camp X-Ray was closed and all prisoners were transferred to Camp Delta.
Abdul Ghaffar, captured in Afghanistan in December 2001, was one of the twenty-three prisoners released from Camp X-Ray in late January 2004.
Guantanamo Bay - Camp Delta (4592 words)
Other improvements made to Camp Delta include the installation of rubber mats on the floors for guards walking up and down the detention blocks, as well as the setting up of air-conditioned offices at the extremities of each block; with each one to be later equipped with a computer and connected to a LAN.
Camp 5 differs from other camps at Camp Delta in that it is a two-story maximum-security multi-winged complex made of concrete and steel.
Detainees in Camp Echo are not in solitary confinement.
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