Camp Delta

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Coordinates: 19°54′09″N, 75°05′57″W

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, and Camp Echo, is a permanent 612-unit detainment camp 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.[citation needed]

Most of the security force are U.S. Army military police, and U.S. Navy Masters-at-Arms.

The camps have different amenities and levels of comfort. The assignment to the different parts of Camp Delta is determined by how much the prisoner cooperates with guards and interrogators, with the exception of newly arriving detainees who always go to maximum security in Camp 3. Thereafter, cooperative detainees are moved to Camp 2 and then Camp 1 as rewards for cooperation. When detainees cooperate and are thought to show no security risk they can be moved to the buildings of Camp 4, which have a shower and lavatory, plus four communal living rooms for 10 detainees each. In Camp 4, each detainnee has a bed and a locker. Camp 4 detainees may eat their meals together, instead of alone in their own cells as in the other camps, and Camp 4 detainees are set apart by their white jump suits, in contrast to the orange worn by detainees in other camps.[1]

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A manual called "Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedure" (SOP), dated February 28 2003, which is classified as "For Official Use Only" (FOUO) was leaked on Wikileaks [2]. This is the main document for the operation of Guantanamo bay, including the securing and treatment of detainees. The document is extensive and includes identity cards and even Muslim burial instructions. It is signed by Major General Miller, who Donald Rumsfeld later sent to Abu Ghraib to "Gitmoize it". The document is also the subject of an ongoing legal action between the ACLU, which has been trying to obtain it from the Department of Defense. [1] [2]

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  1. ^ Wikileaks - Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedure http://88.80.13.160/wiki/Camp_Delta_Standard_Operating_Procedure
  2. ^ http://88.80.13.160/leak/gitmo-sop.pdf

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