Belgian detainees at Guantanamo Bay Belgian detainees at Guantanamo Bay The United States Department of Defense held two Belgian detainees in Guantanamo. A total of 778 suspects have been held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002 The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. Only nineteen new suspects, all "high value detainees" have been transferred there since the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush. In January 2008 the camp population stood at approximately 285. The two Belgians were Mesut Sen and Mosa Zi Zemmori. Both men have been repatriated. Both men
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base D. Bulkeley ordered that the pipelines be cut and a section removed. A length of the diameter pipe and a length of the diameter pipe were lifted from the ground and the openings sealed. , the military facilities at Guantanamo Bay have over 9,500 U.S. sailors and Marines stationed there. It is the only military base the U.S. maintains in a socialist country. In 2005, the U.S. Navy completed a $12 million wind-power project at the base, erecting four 950-kilowatt, 275-foot-tall wind turbines, reducing the need for Diesel fuel to power the existing Diesel generators (the base's primary electricity generation).