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(CNSNews.com) - Suspected terrorists being held at Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba are offered meals that contain more than twice the recommended daily calorie intake, according to American Legion National Commander Thomas Bock, who toured the facility in February. Bock, who spoke on a panel at the conservative Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, said detainees are offered "more than 4,200 calories per day." The Department of Health and Human Services makes diet and nutrition suggestions based on a 2,000-calorie per day diet. The average lunch at Guantanamo, according to Bock, consists of fresh vegetables, meat, rice, two...

Washington, Sept 18 - A hunger strike at the US military's prison camp at Guantanamo bay, Cuba, has unsettled senior commanders and produced the most serious challenge yet to the military's effort to manage hundreds of terrorism suspects, the New York Times reported Sunday. Quoting unnamed lawyers and officials, the newspaper said as many as 200 prisoners -- more than a third of the camp's population -- have refused food in recent weeks to protest conditions and prolonged confinement without trial. While military officials put the number of those participating at 105, they acknowledge that 20 of them, whose health...

Pictures have been released showing inmates at Camp Delta in Guantanamo Bay being told their 'rights.'Detainees were told they could make an appeal to a military panel to end their imprisonment. The US Supreme Court has already said that they can appeal to America's civil courts as well.'In several instances, detainees chose to ignore the reading, chose to tear up the paper that had been given to them with the information on it,' Deputy Comissioner Brian Janke said.Some 15 people at Guantanamo Bay have been identified as potential defendants for military tribunals. But so far only 4 have been charged....

Monday May31-Remind me to never travel on Memorial Day again. Atlanta's airport was mobbed. I had a two-hour flight delay but even worse the other two members of our traveling party, program director Grace Blazer and Colonel Scott Rutter, never get to our hotel until 4 a.m. minus one of our bags. Thank God, they carried the 40-pound bag of radio equipment on board because we would not be broadcasting from Gitmo. Tuesday June 1- 6:15 a.m. We're in a cab headed for the Jacksonville Naval Base and the final leg to Guantanamo Bay. We are anxious to get to...

I want to see US says freed Afghan FOR a man who had just been freed after two years in Guantanamo Bay, it seemed odd that Haji Osman said he wanted to visit the "good people" in the US, writes Hamida Ghafour. Osman (35), had just been flown back to Kabul with 22 other men accused of links to the Taliban regime. But he said yesterday he did not resent his captors and Camp Delta was not as bad as rural Afghanistan. Osman said: "If you compare it to life in the village, it was good, except we were not...

MY HELL IN CAMP X-RAY A BRITISH captive freed from Guantanamo Bay today tells the world of its full horror - and reveals how prostitutes were taken into the camp to degrade Muslim inmates. Jamal al-Harith, 37, who arrived home three days ago after two years of confinement, is the first detainee to lift the lid on the US regime in Cuba's Camp X-Ray and Camp Delta. The father-of-three, from Manchester, told how he was assaulted with fists, feet and batons after refusing a mystery injection. He said detainees were shackled for up to 15 hours at a time in...

The US has bowed to international pressure by announcing a panel to review Afghan war suspects held in Guantanamo Bay. US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the detainees will be allowed to appeal and the panel will decide if they are a threat to America. He defended the detention of the 650 prisoners at Camp Delta without charges or access to lawyers as a "security necessity" and "plain common sense". He explained that the prisoners held at the US naval base in Cuba are not "common criminals". "They're enemy combatants and terrorists who are being detained for acts of war...

An Afghan boy whose 14-month detention by US authorities as a terrorist suspect in Cuba prompted an outcry from human rights campaigners said yesterday that he enjoyed his time in the camp. Mohammed Ismail Agha, 15, who until last week was held at the US military base in Guantanamo Bay, said that he was treated very well and particularly enjoyed learning to speak English. His words will disappoint critics of the US policy of detaining "illegal combatants" in south-east Cuba indefinitely and without trial. In a first interview with any of the three juveniles held by the US at Guantanamo...

I had a good time at Guantanamo, says inmate By Rajeev Syal (Filed: 08/02/2004) An Afghan boy whose 14-month detention by US authorities as a terrorist suspect in Cuba prompted an outcry from human rights campaigners said yesterday that he enjoyed his time in the camp. Mohammed Ismail Agha, 15, who until last week was held at the US military base in Guantanamo Bay, said that he was treated very well and particularly enjoyed learning to speak English. His words will disappoint critics of the US policy of detaining "illegal combatants" in south-east Cuba indefinitely and without trial. In a...

The US has released pictures of the facilities at the Guantanamo Bay prisoner camp - where suspected terrorists are being held. Around 650 suspected al Qaeda and Taleban fighters have been held at the camp in Cuba without charge since the war in Afghanistan. The pictures show maximum security housing units at Camp Delta holding prisoners in individual cells, where their meals are delivered to them. It shows exercise time taking place outdoors inside fenced-in areas, with prisoners kicking round a football. The video also shows medium security prisoners eating, reading, writing and exercising in common spaces. The Bush administration...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- At least 160 of the 650 detainees acknowledged by the Pentagon being held at the United States military base at Guantanamo, Cuba -- almost a quarter of the total -- are from Saudi Arabia, a special UPI survey can reveal. In UPI's groundbreaking and detailed breakdown of the nationalities of the detainees, some arrested far from the 2001 battlefield of Afghanistan, the other top nationalities being held are Yemen with 85, Pakistan with 82, Jordan and Egypt, each with 30. Afghans are the fourth largest nationality with 80 detainees, according to the detailed UPI survey...

Letters to families reveal hunger strikes and suicides in US jail for terror suspects The letters are brief and blunt. Crammed into eight lines in block capitals, the postcards ask after family and friends and wish a happy birthday to a much-loved brother. Asif Iqbal, 20, from Tipton in the West Midlands, could be any prisoner writing home to a concerned family. But Iqbal's notes come from inside the most secretive and infamous prison in the world - a place created to hold those captured in America's War on Terror and condemned by critics as a centre of brutality and...

Two held over US fears of radical cell in forces By David Rennie in Washington (Filed: 24/09/2003) The United States military is urgently investigating a potential radical Muslim cell among its own servicemen at the Guantanamo Bay prison as it emerged yesterday that two more members of the garrison are in custody. Senior Airman Ahmad I al-Halabi, an Arabic language translator, was secretly arrested a month ago, Pentagon officials said last night. He is being held at an air base in California and is charged with more than 30 counts of espionage, aiding the enemy, disobeying a lawful order and...

<p>SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A soldier who guarded suspected terrorists at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has disappeared, U.S. military officials said Thursday.</p> <p>Also Thursday, U.S. military officials announced that Army Maj. Gen. Geoffrey D. Miller will assume control of the detention mission next month.</p>

Camp Delta inmates will talk for burgers Prison: The incentive program to gain information from terrorism suspects is just part of life at the Guantanamo camp. By Dan Fesperman Sun Foreign Staff Originally published September 7, 2003 GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - American interrogators here have come up with a few new weapons as they try to pry loose the secrets of prisoners captured on the battlefields of Afghanistan. "It could be cupcakes, it could be Twinkies, it could even be a McDonald's hamburger," says Warrant Officer James Kluck, who, as the ranking food service officer, helps supply some...

Russian Mothers Plead for Sons to Stay in Guantanamo By Nick Paton WalshThe Guardian | August 11, 2003 The mothers of the eight Russians held with other prisoners from Afghanistan at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay have begged Washington not to extradite their sons to answer terror charges in Russia, fearing that conditions in their jails and judicial system are even worse than those at Camp Delta. "In Guantanamo they treat him humanely and the conditions are fine," Amina Khasanova, the mother of Andrei Bakhitov, told the newspaper Gazeta. "I am terribly scared for my son in a...

12 July 2003 Tony Blair will challenge President George Bush next week over the fate of the Britons being held in Guantanamo Bay as disquiet over their legal status grows among opposition parties and Labour backbenchers. Charles Kennedy, the Liberal Democrat leader, demanded that Mr Blair use the first leg of a round-the-world diplomatic tour next week to press President Bush for the detainees' return. Mr Blair will give a historic joint address to Congress on Thursday before holding talks with President Bush at the start of a week-long trip that will take in Japan, South Korea, China and Hong...

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba – The camp is reached through multiple wire fences, is shrouded from the outside world by green tarpaulins, and patrolled by hundreds of United States military police, almost all of them reservists, called from other lives as policemen, prison wardens, teachers and students. Wooden watchtowers, fitted with searchlights, loom over rows of steel huts. There is a sound of the wind flapping in flags, the whirring of guards' electric fans, and the barking of large dogs. Each maximum security cell is a one-man steel cage, painted pale green throughout, except for a black stencilled arrow, pointing towards...

Construction workers from India help assemble a new fence around the field hospital for some al-Qaida and Taliban detainees Thursday, April 4, 2002, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (AP Photo/Beth A. Keiser) Construction workers from India walk past the fence of Camp Delta, the new $16.4 million facility being built to house al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners, Thursday, April 5, 2002, at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. The 300 al-Qaida and Taliban detainees currently being held at Camp X-Ray will be moved to Camp Delta in April. (AP Photo/Beth A. Keiser)