Following on the "shameful" tradition of Newsweek and the TV stations who caused the Afghan riots and the LA riots, the BBC does the unthinkable and irresponsible act of actually publishing facts not reich wing pap..
BBC NEWS | Americas | Camp Delta death chamber plan 2003
A court and execution chamber could be built at the US detention camp in Cuba under plans being drawn up by military officials.
Military tribunals for some of the hundreds of men detained at the US base on Guantanamo Bay moved a step closer last month.. Pentagon rules for the tribunals permit death sentences to be passed and the construction of a death chamber at the camp is among options being considered
Renovation work such as rewiring has begun... General Miller told AP there are also plans to build a permanent prison block for those convicted and sentenced and an execution chamber should any be sentenced to death...
many [prisoners at the camp] are now thought to be low-level fighters...
Human rights groups have criticised both the makeshift conditions at the prison camp and the lack of rights afforded to the detainees.
Culture of Life indeed!
Update [2005-5-24 19:6:16 by lawnorder]: - As many pointed out below,
this BBC article is from 2003. I posted
UPDATE: Gitmo executions/ death chamber - what happened since 2003 as an update on what happened in Camp Delta since then but the good news is that - as far as the press knows - no one was formaly sent to a death chamber there since then. This is in part thanks to our "activist judges" who forced the government to follow the Geneva Conventions which put a kebash on their military trials... The bad news is that those law abiding, fair and honest judges will soon be a thing of the past when Frist and Delay get done with their gutting of the judiciary :(
21st Century Reich
Maybe Bushies are not Nazi yet, but by adding gas death chambers to prisons where inmates are not allowed to see their lawyers they are getting way to close for my taste... And
Of the 14 characteristics of Fascism Bush's Empire matches all 14
Eric Blumrich's
new video
Death Chambers at Gitmo
Thanks to alert kossack blogger
The Shapeshifter who noticed this parallel to Nazi Germany. The news came a mere day after Yom Hashoah - the day on which jews remember the holocaust..
BBC NEWS | Americas | Camp Delta death chamber plan
A court and execution chamber could be built at the US detention camp in Cuba under plans being drawn up by military officials.
Military tribunals for some of the hundreds of men detained at the US base on Guantanamo Bay moved a step closer last month with the appointment of a chief prosecutor and chief defence counsel.
Pentagon rules for the tribunals permit death sentences to be passed and the construction of a death chamber at the camp is among options being considered.
But defence officials stress that everything remains on the drawing board until orders are issued by the president.
"We have a number of plans that we work for short-term and long-term strategies but that's all they are - plans," camp commander Major-General Geoffrey Miller told the Associated Press news agency.
'Getting ready'
Renovation work such as rewiring has begun on a number of buildings which could later be designated as courts for the tribunals.
General Miller told AP there are also plans to build a permanent prison block for those convicted and sentenced and an execution chamber should any be sentenced to death.
"We're getting ready so we won't be starting from scratch," he said.
The detainees held at Camp Delta on the isolated US base include about 680 people captured during the war against the Taleban in Afghanistan, launched by the US after the 11 September 2001 attacks.
No charges
All have been classified as "enemy combatants" and as such are not entitled to legal representation or a civil trial.
None have yet been charged though cases are being prepared against 10 or more detainees.
The hospital at Guantanamo Bay, file photo from February 2002
Makeshift camp conditions attracted criticism
After the detention centre opened in January 2002, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called its inmates "among the most dangerous, best trained, vicious killers on the face of the Earth".
But many are now thought to be low-level fighters.
Human rights groups have criticised both the makeshift conditions at the prison camp and the lack of rights afforded to the detainees.
Never Forget, and never let it happen again...