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Touring inside Guantanamo Bay prison
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The Toronto Star took a tour of Guantanamo prison where Donald Trump recently announced plans to dump bad dudes. The Star's tour took place in 2015. • http://on.thestar.com/2lggD9N • Or read an excerpt of the article by the Toronto Star's National Security Reporter, Michelle Shephard, below: • The lonely fight to save Guantanamo’s prisoners — and America’s soul • Lawyers for accused 9/11 plotters at Guantanamo Bay have endured much to defend their clients. Now, they’re worried about their new president. • GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA—There’s a solemn ritual that takes place at the end of every week’s 9/11 war crimes hearings, held inside a portable at “Camp Justice.” • Family members of Sept. 11, 2001, victims sit on padded blue chairs and meet the lawyers defending the detainees most of those relatives have spent the last 15 years hating. • James Connell III has faced them often. Connell represents Ammar al Baluchi, the Kuwaiti-born captive of Pakistani heritage who is accused of financing the attacks and who is the nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind. • “Victim family members approach being down here in this dark place from all sorts of perspectives,” says Connell. “They’ve all suffered and there’s a full range of human reaction from, ‘I’m so happy you’re doing what you’re doing, it’s good for America,’ to famously, ‘Go f--k yourself.’ ” • The meetings, like the job, are never easy. This remains one of history’s most vexing trials. Death penalty cases are rarely straightforward — but one of this magnitude, with five defendants charged with the murder of 2,976 people under military law that didn’t exist at the time of the crime and who were held and tortured for years at secret CIA black sites, is particularly complicated. • Aside from legal complexity, the lawyers also face issues unique to Guantanamo — including the FBI attempting to turn a defence team member into a confidential informant and the fear that Camp Justice, built upon a former airstrip, is environmentally hazardous and is literally making them sick. At least seven people who have worked here have been treated or died from cancer, including Navy Lt.-Cmdr. Bill Kuebler, a former lawyer for Canadian Omar Khadr who lost his battle with an aggressive cancer in 2015. He was 44. • for more on this and other stories visit thestar.com: http://on.thestar.com/2lggD9N
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