Camp Justice

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Camp Justice is the name of several American military bases.

1 Camp Justice on the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
2 Camp Justice in Iraq
3 Camp Justice on Diego Garcia
4 References

[edit] 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.^[1]^[2]^[3] 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 hearings^[4]:

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;

[edit] Camp Justice in Iraq

Pilgrims march outside Camp Justice, Iraq.

Camp Justice (also known as "Camp Al-Adala") is a joint Iraqi-American military base in Kadhimiya, Iraq, a suburb northeast of Baghdad.^[5]

The location was renamed from "Camp Banzai" in mid-September 2004 as part of an effort to give Army facilities around Baghdad friendlier names.^[6]

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.

[edit] Camp Justice on Diego Garcia

Camp Justice -- Diego Garcia.

Diego Garcia from the air.

There is also a "Camp Justice" on Diego Garcia, the US base in the British Indian Ocean Territory.^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10] 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.^[11] Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is one of the "high-value detainees" suspected to have been held in Diego Garcia.^[12]

The camp was renamed to "Camp Thunder Cove" in July 2006.^[13]