Gitmo weathers Irma
The other day, the LA Times was wringing their hands about the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba and it’s residents, most specifically, the terrorist detainees warehoused there, since Hurricane Irma was headed in that direction. The Pentagon decided that the 5000 folks there should shelter in place rather than evacuate.
A special prison at the base also holds 41 detainees captured overseas and held on suspicion of terrorism, including the ringleaders of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The base has “initiated its severe weather plans and is preparing to shelter in place,” Navy Cmdr. John Robinson, a prison spokesman, said in a statement.
“It has plans and procedures in place to ensure the safety of detainees in its custody during severe tropical weather conditions,” he said.
“Due to force protection and operational considerations, we do not discuss details about those plans and procedures.”
Well, they needn’t have worried. The Miami Herald reports that everything is just fine down there;
“So far no damage of any significance has been reported or discovered,” Navy Capt. Dave Culpepper told the roughly 5,500 residents through a midday broadcast on Radio Gitmo. He had earlier decided not to send base residents to hardened shelters after tracks showed the storm going north of the base, and no destructive winds were expected.
Bay waters were still rough, with 6-foot-swells, requiring no ferry crossings although a smaller utility boat could carry passengers between the Leeward and Windward sides.
“The beaches are all still closed,” Culpepper advised, reporting that after a survey of the damage “tracking nicely to get back into full operations here.”
Well, see, the beaches are closed – I’m sure that’s Trump’s fault.
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Liberal rags like the LA Slimes are always more concerned about the welfare of terrorists than they are of anyone else.
Hopefully after the storm, they put the ‘Hajj-podge’ of detainees to work chain gang style!
That would be terrible if they tried to run and got mowed down with a SAW….(sniffles) 😉
I’m sure they were hoping that the detainees would be evacuated to the US so they could throw the “now they are here, civil rights!” card out.
Glad to hear they are safe down there, that must’ve sucked having to wait out.
Since it is a tropical area, aren’t those prisoners kept in open cages, where they’re protected from flying debris, but would still feel the water and wind blasting through their cells?
I seem to recall seeing something like that, a long time ago, on a television news report.
Or is that a classified detail?
They never have cold or uncomfortable weather there, do they?
Mox nix.
I’m just curious.
Outdoor recreation area, JRM.
Wiki isn’t my first choice for a reference, but it is convenient.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Delta_(Guantanamo_Bay)
As an aside, ever wonder how many of these so-called journalists have ever actually been to GITMO.
Carol Rosenberg, who wrote the Miami Herald story, goes all the time and live-tweets the Commissions hearings as well as writing stories off them. She mentions in the story that the press operation can house 60 journalists but I don’t know just how many take advantage.
Islamic terrorists dying miserably in a hurricane…I’m sorry, was there supposed to be a downside to this?
Water pollution?