U.S. to Ease Some Guantanamo Conditions

[Eugene]

...but the detainees may be there for life.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050810/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/guantanamo_camp_iguana

U.S. to Ease Some Guantanamo Conditions

By BEN FOX, Associated Press Writer 17 minutes ago

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The U.S. military plans to ease conditions for
some detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — housing them in a renovated
section with televisions, stereos and a view of the Caribbean, the
detention center's commanding officer said in court papers.

For the past several weeks, the military has been renovating Camp
Iguana for detainees who are deemed no longer a threat to the United
States, Brig Gen. Jay Hood said in an affidavit filed late Tuesday in
federal court in Washington.

The renovations are scheduled to be finished around Aug. 15, and some
of those designated "No Longer Enemy Combatants," or NLEC's, will be
able to live in communal housing with air conditioning, unlimited
showers and additional food, Hood said.

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Hood's affidavit was filed by the government in the case of two
Chinese Uighurs, A'Del Abdu Al-Hakim and Abu Baker Qassim, who
the government says were captured in Pakistan as they fled a
Taliban military training camp near Tora Bora, Afghanistan in 2001.

The military has determined that the Uighurs, a persecuted minority
in their native China, are no longer enemy combatants, but under U.S.
law can't be deported back to their native China because they could
face persecution or torture.

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[wryter2000]

1. If they're no longer enemy combatants

send them the hell home.

[Kelvin Mace]

2. Plus

extra dessert after each torture session.

[struggle4progress]

4. And we're putting velvet on the thumbscrews! eom

[Lerkfish]

3. isn't this a tacit admission that conditions are bad, in order to improve?