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The 1st time I heard of Guantanamo Bay was when I was watching Harold and Kumar:Escape From Guantanamo Bay. But, it never occurred to me that it was the central prison for suspects considered unlawful enemy combatants in the war on terror. Since the United States broke off relations with Cuba after Fidel Castro's rise to power, the base has operated as an obscure anomaly, one foreign power's self-enclosed outpost in a hostile land.
News of individual detainees (terrorism suspects) emerges after years of imprisonment in which they were shuttled around the world, interrogated and detained. In the recent news, Muhammad Saad Iqbal who was in the custody of the U.S., said he had been beaten, tightly shackled, covered with a hood and given drugs, subjected to electric shocks and, because he denied knowing Mr. bin Laden, deprived of sleep for six months. He was quietly released from detainment and was never convicted of any crime, or charged with one.
Human rights groups and lawyers representing detainees have painted a harsh picture of conditions there, while prisoners themselves have protested through hunger strikes, riots and suicides.The coming administration of President-elect Barack Obama is weighing whether to close the Guantánamo prison, which many critics have called an extralegal system of detention and abuse.

Has the operation of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base bring more negative outcome than good ones? Should the U.S Government allowed it to continue to operate?

~credit: NY Times~