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Week 12 Military Conflict, Terrorism and the US Prison at Guantanamo Bay

Week 12 Military Conflict, Terrorism and the US Prison at Guantanamo Bay

Q 1. Do you agree that the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay (a/k/a Gitmo) should be closed? Why or why not? 2. When formulating your response, please consider the U.S.'s definition of the "war on terror" (also discussed in Ch. 8) and what that means with regard to the individuals taken int custody by the U.S. military and house at Gitmo. 3. Specifically, please analyze the status of those individuals at Gitmo that are being held as "enemy combatants" and discuss how that status differs from the usual prisoner of war status accorded to most taken into custody by sovereign countries during a war. 4. Finally, please discuss the implications of keeping the facility open or closing it? What would happen to the 166 prisoner's currently being held? What happens if the U.S. continues indefinite detention without trial? What effect, if any, has the alleged use of torture on those held at Gitmo had on American ideals and values.

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The Guantanamo Bay Naval Base was established during the Spanish-American War in 1898, however, it opened as a detention centre in January 2002 after the 9/11 attack under the President George W. Bush so that the suspected people can be detained and interrogated regarding the 9/11 attack. It have had almost 779 men since its opening till now and today there are 41 remaining according to American Civil Liberties Union and its maintenance is costly almost $11 million a year for a single detainee according to ACLU.