PARIS, June 23 (IslamOnline.net) - The U.S. Defense Department (the Pentagon) is currently setting up an execution cell near the Camp Delta in Guantanamo Bay, where the U.S. detains some 680 al-Qaeda suspects, a leading French newspaper reported Monday, June 23.

The Pentagon gave the go-ahead for establishing a new prison with an executing cell that contains electric chairs and lethal injections near the X-Ray camp in the U.S. naval base in Cuba, Le Parisian newspaper said.

U.S. Army Major General Geoffrey D. Miller, the commanding officer in the camp, told the daily that a team of five U.S. experts have been doing case studies for the new prison, noting a nearby building is being restored and refurbished to be used as a military court and is expected to be finished by the end of this year.

The paper further said Lieutenant Colonel Robert W. Burch, the officer in charge of the detainees' file in the camp, has been preparing the files of the cases that shall be brought before the military court.

A military spokesman for the camp said that establishing the new prison is considered to be "an administrative measure."

Meanwhile, an attorney of two French citizens detained at the notorious camp said that he could not talk to his clients, Nezar Sasi and Mohammad bin Shelali, asserting that he even was not able to have a look on their files.

"It is an unprecedented incident in the history of the international law," said the lawyer, dismissing as a "scandal" the law ratified by U.S. President George W. Bush on October 13, 2001, which grants the U.S. detainees the immunity to stand military trials.

The United States has come recently under diatribe from human rights organizations worldwide.

In January, Amnesty International called on the U.S. to resolve the "legal limbo" of hundreds of prisoners detained at Guantanamo, slamming Washington's continuing defiance of international law.

The Washington-based Human Rights Watch also demanded the Bush administration to investigate and address charges of torture of the detainees or risk criminal prosecution. 

Last week, a lawsuit was filed in a Belgian court against George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair on charges of war crimes under the universal competence law.