Update [2005-6-17 7:15:31 by susanhu]: Amnesty Int’l: “Following a week of mixed signals from the US administration about the future of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, Amnesty International today condemned the US government’s announcement that it is to expand the prison. The human rights organisation said that the decision would fuel worldwide concern over accounts of torture and ill-treatment, religious humiliation and arbitrary detention emerging from the facility.”
By 2006, you can eat your orange-glazed chicken in an air conditioned cell!. Via Salon‘s Daou Report:
An air-conditioned two-story prison … Detention Camp #6, will be built at Guantanamo to house 220 men. It will include exercise areas, medical and dental spaces as well as a security control room, the contract announcement said.
The contract announcement did not specify whether the new prison would also hold foreign terror suspects.
Under the deal with the Norfolk, Virginia-based U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Atlantic, the work is to be wrapped up by July 2006. It is part of a larger contract that could be worth up to $500 million if all options are exercised, the Defense Department said.
The project is to be carried out by Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root Services of Arlington, Virginia. It includes site work, heating ventilation and air conditioning, plumbing and electrical work, the Pentagon said. … (Reuters/Yahoo)