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Camp X-Ray Detainees To Be Transferred, Toll Taken On Guards

U.S. guards in Camp X-ray claim they are “stressed”

WASHINGTON, March 19 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - The 300 detainees from the U.S. led attacks on Afghanistan held at an American base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will be transferred from temporary cells to a more secure prison next month, a U.S. military source said Monday. This comes as four U.S. service members assigned to guard detainees have been transferred to new duties at the Guantanamo Bay naval base.

"We expect that the new Delta Camp will be completed by 12 April and we expect to move detainees shortly thereafter," said Major Stephen Cox, a spokesman on the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

For now the alleged Al-Qaeda or Taliban members live in small individual cells at "Camp X-Ray," a temporary center hastily built to house the detainees who began arriving on January 11.

Officials said Delta Camp will contain 408 units and will be extended later to house as many as 2,000 detainees.

Cox signaled that one of the detainees had been involved in a recent confrontation with guards at the camp's hospital, but described the incident as minor. However, at one point the detainee had to be sedated. The detainee's behavior - refusing to be shackled and yelling - posed a security concern inside the medical facility, CNN reported.

"One detainee had become routinely disruptive when he was associated with two guards," he said. "The guy was resisting having shackles ... there was physical contact but it is not as if the detainee had a swing at one of the guards."

However, the detainee was disruptive enough to cause the transfer of two U.S. military guards who were cited as “stressed.” The guards were transferred away from a hospital at Guantanamo where the detainee constantly resisted to “normal duties,” said CNN.

Another two Army guards serving day-to-day security for the detainees, but not in direct contact with them, were also transferred from their posts citing general discomfort.

In addition, CNN reports that Muslim service members at Camp X-Ray may face heightened stress. "I help [troops] try and cope with issues and their mission," said Lt. Abuhena Saiful-Islam, the Muslim chaplain. Muslim troops must ensure that the sharing of religious beliefs with detainees does not affect the way they carry out their duties, he told CNN.

Meanwhile, Cox said that a hunger strike that began on February 27 and was followed on and off by most of the detainees was "effectively over."

The Pentagon is to announce soon the form and the regulations governing the military tribunals that are to be set up to try some of the detainees, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Friday, March 15.

 

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