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| Secret Guantanamo camp opened |
| By The Associated Press |
| Published: 11/20/2008 |
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For the first time, defense lawyers have been allowed to see a section of the Guantanamo prison that is so restricted, even its location on the U.S. base is secret. Two military lawyers for Ramzi Binalshibh, an alleged plotter of the Sept. 11 attacks, were granted 90 minutes on Tuesday evening to view Camp 7, a section for "high value" detainees that has been shrouded in mystery since it opened two years ago. The attorneys are trying to determine if their client is mentally competent to stand trial and to gauge the effects of the prison-within-a-prison on a man who, according to court documents, is so unstable that he believes his bed shakes and noxious odors are pumped into his cell. Both lawyers, Navy Cmdr. Suzanne Lachelier and Lt. Richard Federico, said they were barred from revealing what they saw on the tour. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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