Map of Cuba with the location of Guantanamo Bay indicated

Guantánamo is a city in southeast Cuba, capital of the Guantánamo Province. It has about 208,000 inhabitants and most of them live from producing sugarcane and cotton wool. This is Image:Cu-map. ... This is Image:Cu-map. ... Guantánamo is the easternmost province of Cuba. ... Species -wild -wild -cultivated -cultivated -cultivated -cultivated Ref: ITIS 42058 as of 2004-05-05 Sugarcane is one of six species of a tall tropical southeast Asian grass (Family Poaceae) having stout fibrous jointed stalks whose sap at one time was the primary source of sugar. ... Cotton is a soft fibre that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant, a shrub native to the tropical and subtropical regions of both the Old World and the New World. ...

About 15 km away from the city lies the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, with its prisoner camps for alleged unlawful combatants captured in the "War on Terrorism", notably Camp X-Ray. The administration of president George W. Bush has claimed that the condition of extraterritoriality prevents prisoners in the naval base from having access to courts of law, but some U.S. courts, including the Supreme Court have denied this interpretation (see also Magna Carta, article 39). KM, Km, or km may stand for: Khmer language (ISO 639 alpha-2, km) Kilometre/Kilometer (only km in minuscule is the correct representation of kilometer as an SI unit of length) Kinemantra Meditation Knowledge management, in the field of Library and information science Knowledge Machine, the KM knowledge representation... Map of Cuba with location of Guantanamo Bay indicated. ... Unlawful combatant (also illegal combatant or unprivileged combatant) describes a person who engages in combat without meeting the requirements for a lawful combatant according to the laws of war as specified in the Third Geneva Convention. ... The War on terrorism or War on terror (abbreviated in policy circles as GWOT for global war on terror) is a global effort by the governments of several countries (primarily the United States and its principal allies) to neutralize international groups it deems as terrorist (primarily radical Islamist terrorist groups... Camp X-Ray, shown here under construction, is the temporary holding facility for detainees held at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. ... Order: 43rd President Vice President: Dick Cheney Term of office: January 20, 2001 – Present Preceded by: Bill Clinton Succeeded by: Incumbent Date of birth: July 6, 1946 Place of birth: New Haven, Connecticut First Lady: Laura Welch Bush Political party: Republican George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the... Extraterritoriality is the state of being exempt from the jurisdiction of local law, usually as the result of diplomatic negotiations. ... The supreme court in some countries, provinces, and states, is the highest court in that jurisdiction and functions as a court of last resort whose rulings cannot be appealed. ... Magna Carta placed certain checks on the absolute power of the English Monarchs. ...

The detention conditions in the prisoners camps (reported by the ICRC to be "tantamount to torture") have introduced a sinister connotation to the name; for instance, "Guantanamo on the Hudson" was coined because of this. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is historically a committee of Swiss nationals, although non-Swiss nationals have recently been allowed (the committee appoints new members to itself to replace those who resign or die) which leads the international Red Cross movement (often simply known after its symbol... As President Bush accepted his nomination, thousands gathered in Union Park for a vigil dedicated to, according to United for Peace and Justice, Those who have died or will die as a result of the Bush administration. ...

Guantanamera ("The girl from Guantánamo") is perhaps the best known Cuban song and that country's most noted patriotic song. Guantanamera (The girl from Guantánamo) is perhaps the best known Cuban song and that countrys most noted patriotic song. ... This is an incomplete list. ...

External link

• Supreme Court Decision goes against Bush (http://www.cdi.org/news/law/gtmo-sct-decision.cfm)