Camp Justice

Camp Justice is the name of several American military bases.

Camp Justice on the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base

Camp Justice is the informal name granted to the complex where Guantanamo captives will face charges before the Guantanamo military commissions.cite news
url=http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123070659
title=Prime BEEF stamps hoof prints on Gitmo
publisher=JTF-Guantanamo Public Affairs
author=Army Sergeant. Sarah E. Stannard
date=October 4 2007
accessdate=2007-10-14] cite news
url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/us/14gitmo.html?ei=5087&em=&en=ae1d062cecc8a750&ex=1192507200&pagewanted=all
title=Portable Halls of Justice Rise in Guantánamo
publisher=New York Times
author=William Glaberson
date=Sunday October 14 2007
accessdate=2007-10-14] cite news
url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-te.gitmo14oct14,0,796832.story
title=Tent city built for terror trials
publisher=Baltimore Sun
author=Carol J. Williams
date=Sunday October 14 2007
accessdate=2007-10-14] Initially the complex was to be a permanent facility, costing over $100 million.The United States Congress over-ruled the Bush Presidency's plans.Now the camp will be a portable, temporary facility, costing approximately $10 million.

On January 2 2008 "Toronto Star" reporter Michelle Shephard offered an account of the security precautions reporters go through before they can attend the hearingscite news
url=http://www.thestar.com/News/article/290364
title=Guantanamo hearings try patience: Underwire bra, extra pen among items unpopular with military overseers at terrorist suspects' trials
publisher=Toronto Star
author=Michelle Shephard
date=January 2 2008
accessdate=2008-01-04] :
*Reporters were not allowed to bring in more than one pen;
*Female reporters were frisked if they wore underwire bras;
*Reporters were not allowed to bring in their traditional coil-ring notepads;
*The bus bringing reporters to the hearing room is checked for explosives before it leaves;
*200 metres from the hearing room reporters dismount, pass through metal detectors, and are sniffed by chemical detectors for signs of exposure to explosives;
*Only eight reporters are allowed into the hearing room -- the remainder watch over closed circuit TV;

Camp Justice in Iraq

Camp Justice (also known as "Camp Al-Adala") is a joint Iraqi-American military base in Kadhimiya, Iraq, a suburb northeast of Baghdad.cite news
url=http://www.defendamerica.mil/articles/sep2004/a091504h.html
title=Soldiers Provide Added Security for Pilgrims: Troops Defend Camp Justice, Iraqis During Shiite Holy Pilgrimage
publisher=United States Department of Defense
author=U.S. Army Pfc Al Barrus
date=September 16 2004
accessdate=2007-10-14]

The location was renamed from "Camp Banzai" in mid-September 2004 as part of an effort to give Army facilities around Baghdad friendlier names.cite news
url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/baghdad-kazimiya.htm
title=Mashhad al-Kazimiya
publisher=Global Security
accessdate=2007-10-10]

Camp Justice was the location of the 2006 execution of Saddam Hussein and the 2007 hanging of Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Awad Hamed al-Bandar, and later Taha Yassin Ramadan.

Camp Justice on Diego Garcia

There is also a "Camp Justice" on Diego Garcia, the US base in the British Indian Ocean Territory.cite news
url=http://www.af.mil/news/airman/0802/oef.html
title=Up from the Sea
publisher=United States Air Force
author=Tech. Sgt. John B. Dendy IV
accessdate=2007-10-14] cite news
url=http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=10894
title= Liberty Hall One Step Closer to a Cool Summer
publisher=United States Navy
author=Journalist 2nd Class Jeffrey Fretland
date=December 4 2003
accessdate=2007-10-14] cite news
url=http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=5218
title= Comedian Visits Troops on Remote Isle
publisher=United States Navy
author=Journalist 1st Class Jeremy L. Wood
date=December 30 2002
accessdate=2007-10-14] cite news
url=http://www.dg.navy.mil/web/index.htm
title=United States Navy Diego Garcia Support Facility
publisher=United States Navy
accessdate=2007-10-14] The air base is the home for refueling tankers.

Diego Garcia is also rumored to have been one of the locations of the CIA's black sites.cite news
url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2005/050702-island-torture.htm
title=Island paradise or torture chamber?
publisher=The Toronto Star
author=Lynda Hurst
date=July 2, 2005
accessdate=2007-10-14]
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is one of the "high-value detainees" suspected to have been held in Diego Garcia.cite news
url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2006/060316-detainee-transcripts.htm
title=Detainee transcripts reveal more questions
publisher=Associated Press
author=Andrew Selsky
date=March 16 2006
accessdate=2007-10-14]

The camp was renamed to "Camp Thunder Cove" in July 2006.cite news
url=http://www.defendamerica.mil/articles/jul2006/a072606ls1.html
title=‘Camp Justice’ Becomes ‘Thunder Cove’: Airmen of 40th Air Expeditionary Group give tent city a new name
publisher=United States Department of Defense
author=U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jason Smith
date=July 26, 2006
accessdate=2007-10-14]

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