Pentagon ponders Gitmo overhaul amid growing detainee unrest

[BlueGin]

The Pentagon is considering plans for a $150 million overhaul of the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- including building a new dining hall, hospital and barracks for the guards -- as part of an ambitious project recommended by the top general in charge of its operations, officials tell NBC News.

The proposed spending spree comes amid mounting signs of unrest among Guantanamo detainees that lawyers say is threatening their lives. U.S. military officials confirmed Wednesday that the number of hunger strikers at Guantanamo has more than tripled in the last two weeks -- from 7 to 25 -- and that eight of them are being force fed through tubes. Defense lawyers said in a letter to Congress this week they have gotten reports that “over two dozen men have lost consciousness.”

U.S. military officials denied any lives were in danger but acknowledged that resistance and frustration among the detainees is growing, a development that a senior general said is because they are “devastated” that President Barack Obama’s pledge to shut down the facility has not been fulfilled.

Pentagon ponders Gitmo overhaul amid growing detainee unrest - World News

 

[Mr. H.]

It should be shut down so they can save money to continue White House tours.
And spend more money on mortar training as Harry Reid suggested.

 

[BlueGin]

Sad that the detainee's are "devistated" that Obama let them down and blew off his promise to close it down... is it not? I'm sure the liberals will get right on that and protest in outrage