Guantanamo Bay Naval Base Guantanamo Bay Naval Base Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (), officially known as Naval Station Guantanamo Bay or NSGB (also called GTMO because of the abbreviation of "Guantanamo" or Gitmo because of the common pronunciation of this word by the U.S. military), is a United States military base and detention camp located on 120 square kilometers (45 sq mi) of land and water at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, which the U.S. leased for use as a coaling station and naval base in 1903. The lease was $2,000 in gold per year until 1934, when the payment was set to match the value
Canadian detainees at Guantanamo Bay half a dozen men who had lived in Canada, either as refugees, candidates for citizenship, or illegal immigrants. On April 25, 2011, the whistleblower site WikiLeaks started publishing documents they called detainee assessment briefs. These previously unpublished documents had been drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo, whereas all the previously published documents from Guantanamo had been drafted by the Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants of the Office of Military Commissions. Sixteen captives secret files were not available to wikileaks, including Abdurahman Khadr's. Canadian detainees at Guantanamo Bay The United States Department of Defense acknowledges