Guantanamo. The last prisoners
by Republic
GUANTANAMO BAY cages to 'open air are half-rusted, shrubs and tropical plants are interwoven between the metal and the barbed wire, the' high grass hides the "banana rats, rodents, big cats, that the 'elected to their lair. "Camp X-Ray" was closed in April '2002, but the photos of those cages, the detainees with the orange overalls, hands cuffed and feet shackled under the blazing Caribbean sun, marked forever the history of the most famous prison in the war on terrorism. "Every time you talk about Guantanamo those photos are also republished If it's been almost eight years - stigmatizes the sergeant of the U.S. Navy are treated as prisoners can see for ourselves. " L 'will be the year that the detention camp in the U.S. naval base in Cuba, which over the years has received about eight hundred prisoners including leaders of Al Qaeda, low manpower of terrorism, the Taliban captured in the fighting in Afghanistan ended some innocent here without knowing why, will dismantled. "Close Guantanamo on January 22, 2010, Barack Obama promised on the day of his inauguration at the White House, but a month ago, the American president has had to renege on that promise. Too many outstanding problems, legal problems (which and how many inmates can be transferred and tried by U.S. courts) and logistics (who can be freed or sent to their countries of origin).
"Remember: no pictures that can be recognized by inmates or guards, no faces, no profiles, no word with the prisoners, absolute silence during the prayers. It came just hide the badge of accreditation, no one here needs to know his name. " The 'official to' entrance of Camp Delta, the big doors with reinforced concrete walls around the classic and watchtowers, repeated in a friendly procedures in force at 'internal detention camps. After the closure of the cages of Camp XRay over the years has built six. Fields 1, 2 and 3 are empty now, the 210 inmates still living in camps in Guantanamo Bay 4, 5 and 6. In reality there 's also Camp Seven, where the prisoners are the "Al Qaeda operatives," the leaders of' terrorist organization. It is the best kept secret in Guantanamo, no one knows where he is, and even military guards (except those directly involved in the case) and 'only certainty, as he explains, smiling a military Navy, "is that from any point of Camp Delta can not be farther than 45 miles '(the' maximum extension of the naval base). Nobody knows where he is, no one can say exactly how many detainees there are terrorists ("maximum ten) nor their names. Yet the 'order of transfer of prisoners more famous - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Bin Laden's lieutenant who prepared the attacks of 'September 11, was attacked in all areas he was already informed: the trial in New York, a few hundred meters from the ruins of World Trade Center. At Camp 4 detainees are prisoners more peaceful, all those who respect regolee that the maximum benefits, twenty hours' exercise per day, volleyball and soccer, a room where they can watch tv, the library, individual cells a life in common. We see them, dressed all in white, while the spaces to 'open play football, read, spread out to dry clothes, use the fitness equipment. Speak tra loro in arabo, ogni tanto si rivolgono alle guardie in inglese. Alle cinque di mattina da una torretta li osserviamo nella prima delle quattro preghiere quotidiane. Una lunga fila di figure bianche che si inginocchiano, lo sguardo in direzione La Mecca. Anche chi religioso noné («ce ne sono», confermano le guardie), si adegua, per conformismo o semplice paura. «Il settanta per cento dei detenuti stanno quia Camp4- dice il responsabile del campo quasi tutti parlano un buon inglese, per chi vuole ci sono anche classi di lingua dove perfezionarlo». Nella stanza della tv lo schermo é acceso, possono entrarci in venticinque alla volta, i canali sono tutti arabi, da Al Jazeera alla tv delle Yemen: «Le più seguite sono le partite Football, sometimes also record from other channels, the films of Jackie Chan. The news? Yes listen to them, of course when it comes to Guantanamo, the war in Afghanistan or Iraq c 'is the greatest attention. " Not far from the halls of the library have the shelves full of books, including novels, the most popular at the moment are those of Agatha Christie, but beds are also very religious books on 'Islam. A 'wing part is occupied by the' hospital. The most popular treatments are for trauma, tears and several incidents during football matches but the 'team of military doctors ("we are doctors first and foremost," to take specified) is ready for any eventuality and to interventions also complicated. If c 'is uno sciopero della fame, e ce ne sono sempre, é attivo un reparto speciale dovei detenutia rischio vengono alimentati a forza. Infine la cucina dove una signora di origine cinese da sette anni é responsabile dell' alimentazione: sei diete differenti,a base di carne, di pesce, vegetariana, che i detenuti possono scegliere con un anticipo di due settimane e di cui lei va molto orgogliosa. Il Camp 6 é il più moderno, finito di costruire nel 2006 é l' esatta replica di un carcere di massima sicurezza dell' Indiana. E' una sorta di campo intermedio dove transitano per un periodo i detenuti che arrivano da Camp 5, il carcere dove finiscono i detenuti «che hanno creato problemi»: quelli che tirano le feci addosso alle guardie («succede ogni giorno»), che «non seguono le regole e possono essere un pericolo per gli altri», i duri di Guantanamo. «Per alcuni di loro stare nel Camp5é uno status, vogliono far sapere agli altri e al mondo esterno che loro non si piegano», spiega il colonnello Bruce E. Vargo, che in quanto comandante del Joint Detention Groupéa contatto quotidiano con i detenuti. Qui le ore d' aria sono solo tre al giorno, le celle sono all' interno di stanzoni in cui si possono tenere d' occhio i detenuti senza essere visti, qui si possono ascoltare gli insulti all' indirizzo della guardie militari (soprattutto se sono donne) e i desideri di vendetta («appena libero torno ad ammazzarvi sporchi americani»). «Il regime duro é una their choice, all wanting to know that they can go to Camp 4. The guards? They behave in a totally professional, even those who have had relatives killed in the Twin Towers. " I'm still the damned in 210 at Guantanamo. The 'last to leave the base on Wednesday night was Fouad al Rabiah, a Kuwaiti detained for nearly eight years after a federal judge ordered his release because his confessions obtained by "hard questioning," are not credible. For his lawyer has a case of mistaken people, the 'man accused by the Americans to finance Al Qaeda and Taliban militias to help in Tora Bora was not him. Many others will be released soon, according to Pentagon chief Robert Gates already 116 have been identified as "transferable" to other countries, a couple, or perhaps more, could arrive in Italy. For some of them will mean freedom, others will return to fight, for others will mean a new prison in the country of origin or, worse, end up in the cells of unsavory intelligence. The rumors that filter through from Camp Delta detainees tell of guards and lawyers worried. Not that the future will be better for all the Guantánamo.
Alberto Flores D'Arcais
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