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In Guantanamo have constructed golf club and a path for go-cart racing
Saturday, June 12th, 2010
Americans have again recollected about Guantanamo. It was found out that for modernization of military base and prison it has been spent half-billion budgetary dollars. On this money there have constructed golf club, a path for go-cart racing, were going even to open the Irish pub. And this with the fact that Obama’s administration repeats one and a half year: Guantanamo should be closed.
Let this Cuban territory is occupied also with the American military men, but volume that Guantanamo is a military base and prison with a high security, remind only the cages which have grown with a tall weeds of camp X-Ray. However suspected of terrorism here for a long time do not hold. Prisoners settle down in rooms which, more likely, remind a student’s hostel of the American university: the conditioner, the books, a separate bathroom, three meals a day. As live on island in Caribbean basin where summer all year long, those who protects prisoners, show figures from the Pentagon budget.
The platform for volleyball has managed to treasury in 249 thousand dollars, but the data about that, building of golf club and a covered skating rink how many cost are absent. The Ministry of Defence has spent 683 thousand for cafe where submit house. Is on base and a coffee house. To erect two restaurants of a fast food left more expensive – 773 thousand dollars, but hamburgers there submit exactly as in America.
“If to look at the Pentagon budget who spends money and who receives money it is possible to draw at once a conclusion that without corruption here has not managed. It is simple larceny from the state treasury under cover of problems of national safety and struggle against terrorism”, – Brajan Bekker, the head of anti-war movement is indignant.
Such as Bekker specify in different interpretations: in the military budget it is specified that on an attraction – a platform for elektrombilej and trek – 296 thousand dollars, and the official newspaper on the basis of Naval Forces writes that much more – 400 thousand.
But it is copecks in comparison with expenses on hospital for terrorists – 18 million 200 thousand dollars and 2 million 900 thousand on a psychiatric clinic. Total – 500 million without confidential expenses on camp number 7. But, despite it, the Irish pub brought in the estimate, in territory of Guantanamo is not completed till now.
“When I worked in last Presidential Administration warned: Guantanamo should be closed. But this difficult decision. If to translate all arrested persons in the USA it will be much worse. It is a terrible secret about which all to be afraid to speak. Instead of living on island in Caribbean basin with a good climate and the first class health services, arrested persons will be in chambers from concrete, a high security and so on”, – John Bellinger, in 2001-2005 George Bush’s adviser for legal issues explains.
From 770 prisoners who were in prison of Guantanamo when John Bellinger worked under George Bush, camp remains only 180.
To leave this gloomy symbol George Bush it is not possible one and a half year, to keep a word to the president pig-headed senators and congressmen disturb. On Capitol Hill against to send prisoners to Illinois, in empty prison “Thompson”. First, if prisoners appear in the American territory, to hold them , to refuse services of lawyers, the authorities cannot. Secondly, this the expensive. It is necessary to spend For prison re-equipment half-billion more.
