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Article: Base unlikely home to prisoners: Guantanamo Bay designed to keep people out, not in
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- January 2, 2002
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The perimeter of the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base is littered with
enough razor wire and landmines to deter an invasion. The facilities
inside, with a little work, can house and feed thousands of people
for months.
But before the United States' military outpost in southern Cuba
can become a prison for Taliban and al-Qaida captives, it must be
outfitted for a mission that it has rarely been called on to perform
in its 98-year history - preventing escape. Keeping people from
getting in to Guantanamo Bay has always been the challenge in the
past.
"It's a very interesting, even fascinating place down there, and I