Inside Gitmo
Chapter 1: Why Guantanamo?
Content Summary
- Getting there. Terrain, weather, and a description of the history and layout of the U.S. base in Cuba.
- Why pick Guantanamo? The paradox of isolation but nearness. Outside of U.S. soil but close enough to fly to easily.
- Who selected Guantanamo? See how Defense, Justice, FBI, CIA, and other players all had a voice and whose decision weighed the most heavily on selection.
- See why what many people think of as a prison designed for rehabilitation and punishment differs from a detention/interrogation center. And, no, its not a matter of splitting hairs.
- A beginning introduction to who the detainees are, the circumstances of capture, their ideology and goals.
- Remember back to the weeks and months after 9/11 the fear of follow-on attacks, the anthrax scare, the almost universal certainty that America would be struck again and learn how that influenced the early days of interrogation at Guantanamo.
- Finally, what was the Defense Departments attitude about Guantanamo? Did they welcome the mission or accept it grudgingly?
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Chapter 1
Why Guantanamo?
Reprinted end notes from the book, with links to source
documents
and other supporting materials
1. A historical look at Guantanamo Bay and the Northeast Gate, undated webpage at http://www.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil/negatehistory.html. [Inside Gitmo website administrative note: the webpage has now been moved to http://www.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil/community/history.html]
2. J. A. Sierra, History of Cuba, History of Cuba.com.
3. Kathleen T. Rhem, From Mayberry to Metropolis: Guantanamo Bay Changes, American Forces Press Service, March 3, 2005.
4. Bosnia Admits US Terrorist Renditions Violated Human Rights Law, Serbo Journal, June 18, 2006. [Inside Gitmo website administrative note: this article is no longer available on the internet, and has not been reposted here due to copyright concerns.]
5. Robin Moore, The Hunt for Bin Laden: Task Force Dagger. New York: Random House, 2003. Also, Gary Berntsen and Ralph Perillo, Jawbreaker: The Attack on bin Laden and al Qaeda. New York: Crown, 2005; and Anonymous, Hunting al Qaeda. St. Paul, MN: Zenith Press, 2005 [Inside Gitmo website administrative note: the "Hunting Al Qaeda" book published by Zenith Press in 2005 was apparently authored by Gerald Schumacher].
6. Department of Defense Guantanamo Detainees fact sheet, February 13, 2004 (available on the Internet as an Acrobat PDF file at http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Apr2004/d20040406gua.pdf).
7. February 13, 2004 U.S. Department of Defense Briefing on Detainee Operations at Guantanamo Bay with Paul Butler, principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict, and Army Maj. Gen. Geoffrey D. Miller, commander, Joint Task Force Guantanamo.
8. Author interview with Brigadier General Vincent Brooks, Pentagon, Washington, DC, December 2005.
9. Supreme Court of the United States, Johnson, Secretary of Defense, et al. v.
Eisentrager, alias Ehrhardt, et al., No. 306, argued April 17, 1950, decided June 5, 1950.
10. Author interview with Brigadier General Thomas Hemingway, Pentagon, Washington, DC, December 2005.
11. Matthew Waxman,The Smart Way to Shut Gitmo Down, Washington Post, October 28, 2007.
12. Author interview, op. cit. [Inside Gitmo website administrative note: request for the author to clarify which interview being reference has been requested].
13. James Taranto, War Behind the Wire, Wall Street Journal, September 16, 2006.
14. Department of Defense, Guantanamo Detainees fact sheet, February 13, 2004 (Acrobat PDF file available on the Internet at http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Apr2004/d20040406gua.pdf).
15. Box cutters found on other September 11 flights, CNN, September 24, 2001.
16. Centers for Disease Control report, Investigation of Bioterrorism-Related Anthrax, December 7, 2001.
17. Donald Knox, The Korean War: Volume 2: Uncertain Victory: An Oral History. Alfred Coppel, Harvest/HJB Books, 2002.
18. Author interview, op. cit. [Inside Gitmo website administrative note: request for the author to clarify which interview being reference has been requested].
19. Author interview with DASD Matthew Waxman, Pentagon, Washington, DC, December 2005. |
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