Joint Task Force Guantanamo
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Joint Task Force Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO) is one of the U.S. military units based at the United States Navy base located at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on the southeastern end of island. Since around 2002 the unit has come to world attention as the operators of Camp X-Ray and its successors Camp Delta, Camp V, and Camp Echo where there are detained prisoners captured in the war in Afghanistan after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Currently is under command of Rear Admiral Harry Harris
The status of these detainees is hotly disputed. The U.S. calls them enemy combatants, as their status was not recognized under the Geneva Conventions (due to not being affiliated with any government, being alleged members of Al Qaida or groups affiliated with them). On June 29, 2006, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that they had the minimal protection of Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions.
Other parties insist that the detainees be granted full prisoner of war rights and privileges listed in the Geneva Convention.
