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BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba - These captives already get to order fast-food takeout from the base and have access to a phone booth for weekly calls. Now the 17 Uighur Muslims awaiting a nation to grant them asylum are about to go high-tech, with laptops and Web training.
While awaiting details of President Obama's order to close the prison camps by Jan. 22, commanders here have ordered 20 laptops for the captives of Camp Iguana.
"As you know, detainees are leaving this place," said Army Lt. Col. Miguel Mendez, who oversees detainee classes, a multilingual library, and a now-emerging virtual computer lab. "We're getting them computer classes to prepare for their return."
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Awaiting asylum, getting Web-ready | Philadelphia Inquirer | 06/01/2009
This torture of Gitmo prisoners has got to stop!