Guantánamo Public Memory Project

This Week in Guantánamo: 2014 and 2002

April 17, 2014: Col. James L. Pohl, the military judge in the U.S.S. Cole bombing case at GTMO ordered the C.I.A. to disclose details of its overseas detention and interrogation program to defense lawyers. This could include details of black sites at which the defendant Abd al Rahim al Nashiri was kept before he was moved to GTMO.

Inmates, Guards at Camp X-Ray. Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Owned and Provided by Miami Herald. Photographer Unknown.

Inmates, Guards at Camp X-Ray. Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Owned and Provided by Miami Herald. Photographer Unknown.

April 29, 2002: Camp X-Ray was closed, and all detainees held there were transferred to Camp Delta. The first detainees had arrived at Camp X-Ray on January 11 of the same year, but the outdoor facility was only ever intended as a temporary holding area until more permanent structures could be put in place.

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