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U.S. Finishes Camp X-Ray, Awaits More Prisoners
Saturday, February 2, 2002
(6:10 PM ET)
By Jane Sutton
Reuters

Military Police at camp X-Ray on the Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay look over a detainee after an interrogation February 2, 2002. A base spokeswoman said the detainee was moved by stretcher because of injuries suffered before arriving at Guantanamo. The U.S. military finished construction of the temporary prison and can now more than double its population of Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners, camp officials said.
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On Saturday, at least one prisoner was carried to an interrogation session on a stretcher.

GUANTANAMO BAY -- Cuba (Reuters
The U.S. military finished construction of a temporary prison camp on the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Saturday, and can now more than double its population of Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners, camp officials said.

The camp's population has stood at 158 since Jan. 21, when the last of six groups of prisoners were flown from Afghanistan to the chain-link prison known as "Camp X-Ray." The United States suspended prisoner flights after that, in part because the camp was at capacity and military officials did not want to put more than one prisoner in each cell, for security reasons.

Marines, independent contractors and Seabees, as the U.S. Navy construction battalions are called, have expanded the camp to 320 cells, divided into six cellblocks with four showers and five or six portable toilets each.

"I'm ready to receive" more prisoners, U.S. Army Col. Terry Carrico, the camp warden, told reporters.
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