Guantanamo Bay Naval Base was incorporated into the Constitution of the Republic of Cuba in 1901. The Constitution took effect in 1902, and land for a naval base at Guantanamo Bay was granted to the United States the following year. USS "Monongahela" (1862), an old warship which served as a storeship at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba was totally destroyed by fire on March 17, 1908. A 4-inch gun was salvaged from her wreck and put on display at the Naval Station. Since the gun was deformed by the heat from the fire, it was nicknamed "Old Droopy". The gun was on display on Deer Point
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 These previously unpublished documents had been drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo, whereas all the previously published documents from Guantanamo had been drafted by the Office for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