Weeds and flowers grow near the fence at Camp X-Ray, a prison formerly used to house detainees at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, March 7, 2013. Camp X-Ray was decommissioned in 2002 and detainees who have been captured in the war in Afghanistan and elsewhere since the September 11, 2001 attacks are now held in Camp V, Camp VI and Camp VII. Picture taken March 7, 2013. REUTERS/Bob Strong (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY CRIME LAW) 

Weeds and flowers grow near the fence at Camp X-Ray, a prison formerly used to house detainees at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, March 7, 2013. Camp X-Ray was decommissioned in 2002 and detainees who have been captured in the war in Afghanistan and elsewhere since the September 11, 2001 attacks are now held in Camp V, Camp VI and Camp VII. Picture taken March 7, 2013. REUTERS/Bob Strong (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY CRIME LAW TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Automobile magazines are among the reading material available at the detainee library located inside Camp Delta at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, March 7, 2013. The facility is operated by the Joint Task Force Guantanamo and holds prisoners who have been captured in the war in Afghanistan and elsewhere since the September 11, 2001 attacks. Picture taken March 7, 2013. REUTERS/Bob Strong (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY CRIME LAW) 

Harry Potter movies are among the titles available at the detainee library located inside Camp Delta at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, March 7, 2013. The facility is operated by the Joint Task Force Guantanamo and holds prisoners who have been captured in the war in Afghanistan and elsewhere since the September 11, 2001 attacks. Picture taken March 7, 2013. REUTERS/Bob Strong (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY CRIME LAW) 

The detainee library located inside Camp Delta offers reading material, movies and video games to prisoners being held at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, March 7, 2013. The facility is operated by the Joint Task Force Guantanamo holds prisoners who have been captured in the war in Afghanistan and elsewhere since the September 11, 2001 attacks. Picture taken March 7, 2013. REUTERS/Bob Strong (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY CRIME LAW) 

A selection of lunch meals offered to detainees are displayed in a food preparation area at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, March 7, 2013. The Joint Task Force Guantanamo is responsible for housing and feeding prisoners who have been captured in the war in Afghanistan and elsewhere since the September 11, 2001 attacks. Detainees are given a daily choice of regular, soft, vegetarian, vegetarian with fish, bland and high fiber meals. Picture taken March 7, 2013. REUTERS/Bob Strong (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY CRIME LAW) 

Trays of halal meat for detainee meals are stored in a refrigeration unit at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay March 7, 2013. The Joint Task Force Guantanamo is responsible for housing and feeding prisoners who have been captured in the war in Afghanistan and elsewhere since the September 11, 2001 attacks. Detainees are given a daily choice of regular, soft, vegetarian, vegetarian with fish, bland and high fiber meals. Picture taken March 7, 2013. REUTERS/Bob Strong (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY CRIME LAW) 

A selection of lunch meals offered to detainees are displayed in a food preparation area at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, March 7, 2013. The facility is operated by the Joint Task Force Guantanamo and holds prisoners who have been captured in the war in Afghanistan and elsewhere since the September 11, 2001 attacks. Detainees are given a daily choice of regular, soft, vegetarian, vegetarian with fish, bland and high fiber meals. Picture taken March 7, 2013. REUTERS/Bob Strong (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY CRIME LAW) 

Books in Arabic are seen on shelves at the detainee library located inside Camp Delta at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, March 7, 2013. The facility is operated by the Joint Task Force Guantanamo and holds prisoners who have been captured in the war in Afghanistan and elsewhere since the September 11, 2001 attacks. Picture taken March 7, 2013. REUTERS/Bob Strong (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY CRIME LAW) 

No photography signs are posted on the fence surrounding Camp Delta at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, March 6, 2013. The facility is operated by the Joint Task Force Guantanamo and holds prisoners who have been captured in the war in Afghanistan and elsewhere since the September 11, 2001 attacks. Picture taken March 6, 2013. REUTERS/Bob Strong (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY CRIME LAW) 

The interior of an unoccupied cell showing standard issue clothing given to prisoners is seen at Camp VI, a prison used to house detainees at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, March 5, 2013. The facility is operated by the Joint Task Force Guantanamo and holds prisoners who have been captured in the war in Afghanistan and elsewhere since the September 11, 2001 attacks. Picture taken March 5, 2013. REUTERS/Bob Strong (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY CRIME LAW) 

The exterior of Camp Delta is seen at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, March 6, 2013. The facility is operated by the Joint Task Force Guantanamo and holds prisoners who have been captured in the war in Afghanistan and elsewhere since the September 11, 2001 attacks. Picture taken March 6, 2013. REUTERS/Bob Strong (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY CRIME LAW) 

A room used for meetings between lawyers and their clients is seen at Camp VI, a prison used to house detainees at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, March 5, 2013. The facility is operated by the Joint Task Force Guantanamo and holds prisoners who have been captured in the war in Afghanistan and elsewhere since the September 11, 2001 attacks. The prisoner uses an ankle shackle during the meetings. Picture taken March 5, 2013. REUTERS/Bob Strong (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY CRIME LAW) 

A holding pen used to transfer prisoners and materials is seen in an an unoccupied communal cellblock at Camp VI, a prison used to house detainees at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay March 5, 2013. The facility is operated by the Joint Task Force Guantanamo and holds prisoners who have been captured in the war in Afghanistan and elsewhere since the September 11, 2001 attacks. Picture taken March 5, 2013. REUTERS/Bob Strong (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY CRIME LAW) 

An unidentified prisoner reads a newspaper in a communal cellblock at Camp VI, a prison used to house detainees at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, March 5, 2013. The facility is operated by the Joint Task Force Guantanamo and holds prisoners who have been captured in the war in Afghanistan and elsewhere since the September 11, 2001 attacks. Picture taken March 5, 2013. REUTERS/Bob Strong (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY CRIME LAW TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

The interior of an unoccupied communal cellblock is seen at Camp VI, a prison used to house detainees at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay March 5, 2013. The facility is operated by the Joint Task Force Guantanamo and holds prisoners who have been captured in the war in Afghanistan and elsewhere since the September 11, 2001 attacks. Picture taken March 5, 2013. REUTERS/Bob Strong (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY CRIME LAW) 

The interior of an unoccupied communal cellblock is seen at Camp VI, a prison used to house detainees at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay March 5, 2013. The facility is operated by the Joint Task Force Guantanamo and holds prisoners who have been captured in the war in Afghanistan and elsewhere since the September 11, 2001 attacks. Picture taken March 5, 2013. REUTERS/Bob Strong (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY CRIME LAW) 

Members of the United States Navy lay sandbags around the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station's security headquarters in Cuba August 22, 2012 as Tropical Storm Isaac approaches. The pretrial hearings at Guantanamo Bay for five prisoners accused of launching the September 11 attacks were postponed as the naval base in southeast Cuba prepared for the arrival of Tropical Storm Isaac. REUTERS/Jane Ross Johansen (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT DISASTER) 

Detainees in orange jumpsuits sit in a holding area under the watchful eyes of military police during in-processing to the temporary detention facility at Camp X-Ray of Naval Base Guantanamo Bay in this January 11, 2002 file photograph. A cache of classified U.S. military documents provides intelligence assessments on nearly all of the 779 people who been detained at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba. The secret documents, made available to The New York Times and several other news organizations, reveal that most of the 172 remaining prisoners have been rated as a "high risk" of posing a threat to the United States and its allies if released without adequate rehabilitation and supervision, the newspaper said in its report late on April 24, 2011. REUTERS/Stringer/Files (CUBA - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS) 

In this photo, reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, a Guantanamo detainee's feet are shackled to the floor as he attends a "Life Skills" class inside the Camp 6 high-security detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base April 27, 2010. REUTERS/Michelle Shephard/Pool (CUBA - Tags: MILITARY POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

A pair of urinals is seen at Camp X-Ray detention facility in Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base August 5, 2009. The facility, which has been left in its present state as it is being preserved as an evidence in law suits and was opened after the deadly Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, became a symbol of detainee abuse and detention without charge under the previous administration of George W. Bush. U.S. President Barack Obama has vowed to close Guantanamo Bay, which currently holds some 225 detainees, and has also ordered a stop to harsh interrogation methods. Picture taken August 5, 2009. REUTERS/Deborah Gembara (CUBA POLITICS CRIME LAW CONFLICT) 

A view of a common area at the medium security prison inside Camp IV at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base August 4, 2009. The detention facility, which was opened after the deadly Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, became a symbol of detainee abuse and detention without charge under the previous administration of George W. Bush. U.S. President Barack Obama has vowed to close Guantanamo Bay, which currently holds some 225 detainees, and has also ordered a stop to harsh interrogation methods. Picture taken August 4, 2009. REUTERS/Deborah Gembara (CUBA POLITICS CRIME LAW CONFLICT) 

Detainees participate in an early morning prayer session at Camp IV at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base August 5, 2009. The detention facility, which opened after the deadly Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, became a symbol of detainee abuse and detention without charge under the previous administration of George W. Bush. U.S. President Barack Obama has vowed to close Guantanamo Bay, which currently holds some 225 detainees, and has also ordered a stop to harsh interrogation methods. Picture taken August 5, 2009. REUTERS/Deborah Gembara (CUBA POLITICS CRIME LAW RELIGION CONFLICT IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

In this photo, reviewed by the U.S. military, a Guantanamo guard stands inside a doorway at Camp 6 detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba, May 31, 2009. Camp six is a medium-security facility with the capability of holding in maximum security a portion of its roughly 60 detainees, based on their compliance with rules, according to the U.S. Military. REUTERS/Brennan Linsley/Pool (CUBA) 

In this photo, reviewed by the U.S. military, a Guantanamo detainee walks inside the open-air yard at Camp 4 detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba, May 31, 2009. The U.S. military is rigging up satellite television service and distributing Sudoku puzzles in Guantanamo prison cells even as the Obama administration works towards a goal of emptying them of detainees. REUTERS/Brennan Linsley/Pool (CUBA CRIME LAW POLITICS) 

Detainees talk together inside the open-air yard at the Camp 4 detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, May 31, 2009. REUTERS/Brennan Linsley/Pool (CUBA MILITARY CRIME LAW CONFLICT) 

Detainees sit together inside the Camp 6 detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, May 31, 2009. The United States has made a new request for Australia to accept a group of detainees from Guantanamo Bay for resettlement, a government spokeswoman said on Saturday. The request is the first by President Barack Obama's administration, which plans to close down the detention camp in Cuba within the next year. REUTERS/Brennan Linsley/Pool (CUBA MILITARY POLITICS CRIME LAW) 

In this January 19, 2009 file photo, reviewed by the U.S. Military, a sign marks a closed-off area at Camp Justice, the location of the U.S. Military Commissions court for war crimes, at the U.S. Naval Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. When the first Guantanamo prisoners were led off a plane from Afghanistan and locked in open-air cages, it was clear to us conditions would be harsh. Just how notorious Guantanamo would become was not obvious. Picture taken January 19, 2009. To match: WITNESS-GUANTANAMO/. REUTERS/Brennan Linsley/Pool/Files (CUBA) 

In this photo, reviewed by the U.S. Military, leg shackles are seen on the floor at Camp 6 detention center, at the U.S. Naval Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, January 21, 2009. President Barack Obama may set a one-year deadline to close the controversial U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to an unsigned draft executive order that may bolster the U.S. image abroad. Obama pledged during his election campaign to shutter the prison camp, which became a blot on the United States' human rights record and a symbol of detainee abuse and detention without charge under the Bush administration. REUTERS/Brennan Linsley/Pool (CUBA) 

An arrow pointing to the direction of Mecca is seen on the floor of the "Camp Four" detention facility movie room at U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay December 10, 2008 in this image reviewed by the U.S. military. Camp Four houses the most "compliant" detainees where they live in a more open, community-oriented manner. REUTERS/Mandel Ngan/Pool (CUBA) 

A guard wears a protective face shield, after he was asked to demonstrate its use by a correspondent, in the "Camp Five" detention facility at U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay December 10, 2008, in this image reviewed by the U.S. military. The shield is to protect the guards from human waste which is thrown at them by the detainees. Camp Five, modelled after a U.S. maximum security facility, houses the most uncooperative detainees, along with those of high intelligence value. REUTERS/Mandel Ngan/Pool (CUBA) 

The outside of the "Camp Five" detention facility is seen at U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay December 10, 2008, in this image reviewed by the U.S. military. Camp Five, modelled after a U.S. maximum security facility, houses the most uncooperative detainees, along with those of high intelligence value. REUTERS/Mandel Ngan/Pool (CUBA) 

Leg restraints are seen under desks in the classroom of "Camp Four" during a media visit to U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay December 10, 2008 in this image reviewed by the U.S. military. The recently started art class is popular with the detainees. Camp Four houses the most "compliant" detainees where they live in a more open, community-oriented manner. REUTERS/Mandel Ngan/Pool (CUBA) 

An image reviewed by the US military shows a guard tower at the closed "Camp X-Ray" at US Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, December 9, 2008. The camp was in operation from January 2002 to April 2002. Some 300 prisoners were housed there before it closed. REUTERS/Mandel Ngan/Pool (CUBA) 

An interrogation table in the abandoned Camp X-Ray at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval base July 27, 2008. Camp X-Ray was where terrorism suspects seized in Afghanistan and elsewhere were held for four months in 2002 until the Camp Delta prison complex was opened. Picture taken on July 27, 2008 and was reviewed by the military on July 28, 2008. REUTERS/Randall Mikkelsen (CUBA) 

Water bottles are stripped of paper labeling as a security precaution for terrorism suspects in maximum-security Camp VI at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, July 23, 2008. They are stored in an unoccupied cell pod at the camp. The military invited a group of news media to view the camp. Picture taken on July 23, 2008. REUTERS/Randall Mikkelsen (CUBA) 

Personal effects given to terrorism suspects are displayed for the media in an unoccupied cell at the Camp 5 high-security detention center on the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, July 23, 2008.The first U.S. war crimes trial since World War Two began this week at the naval base, nearly seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks prompted President George W. Bush to declare war on terrorism. REUTERS/Randall Mikkelsen (CUBA) 

The Exercise yard at Camp 6, a maximum security facility, is pictured at the Camp Delta detention center for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba July 23, 2008. Inmates are allowed two hours of exercise per day. Osama bin Laden's driver knew the target of the fourth hijacked jetliner in the Sept. 11 attacks, a prosecutor said on Tuesday in an attempt to draw a link between Salim Hamdan and the al Qaeda leadership in the first Guantanamo war crimes trial. REUTERS/Randall Mikkelsen (CUBA) 

A detained terrorism suspect watches a bird outside his cell at Camp Delta at the U.S. Naval Base on Guantanamo Bay in Cuba July 23, 2008. His section of the detention center, Camp 4, is occupied by those deemed by authorities to be most compliant and the least risk. Osama bin Laden's driver knew the target of the fourth hijacked jetliner in the Sept. 11 attacks, a prosecutor said on Tuesday in an attempt to draw a link between Salim Hamdan and the al Qaeda leadership in the first Guantanamo war crimes trial. REUTERS/Randall Mikkelsen (UNITED STATES) 

Meals are prepared for detainees at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba September 5, 2007. Picture taken September 5, 2007. REUTERS/Joe Skipper (CUBA) 

A monitoring station for a guard is shown in a group living cell for the most compliant detainees in Camp Delta at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba September 4, 2007. The position is manned around the clock. Picture taken September 4, 2007. REUTERS/Joe Skipper (CUBA) 

An operating room is seen in Camp Delta at the U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba January 18, 2006. About 500 detainees captured as part of Operation Enduring Freedom during the war in Afghanistan are held in the prison's complexes. REUTERS/Joe Skipper 

A U.S. Army soldier looks through binoculars while standing on a guard tower at maximum security prison Camp Delta at Guantanamo Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba, August 26, 2004. Preliminary hearings began yesterday for four suspected Al Qaeda associates, charged by the U.S. with war crimes, as they appear before a commission of five military officers. REUTERS/Mark Wilson/Pool mw/jf/HK 

A U.S. Army soldier closes the gate at maximum security prison Camp Delta at Guantanamo Naval Base August 25, 2004 in Guantanamo, Cuba. Australian al Qaeda suspect David Hicks sat stoically before a U.S. military tribunal that formally charged him with war crimes on Wednesday and showed no emotion as his lawyers questioned the panel's ability to try him fairly. Hicks, a 29-year-old convert to Islam, is among the first four suspected al Qaeda fighters held at the remote U.S. naval base to face criminal charges of plotting attacks against America and its allies. The four are appearing before a military tribunal this week for pretrial hearings. REUTERS/Mark Wilson/POOL mw/jf/HB 

Detainees at Camp Delta at the U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba exercise in Camp 3, July 28, 2004. Preparations are nearing completion on the Naval base for war crimes tribunals, the first held by the United States since the World War II era. The proceedings are expected to begin within months. U.S. military censors reviewed photographs from inside the prison. 

A detainee is carried by military police after being interrogated by
officials at Camp X-Ray at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2002. REUTERS Marc Serota

MS/TRA 

Detainees in Camp 4 at Camp Delta take reading lessons in Pashtu from an unidentified instructor (L) at the U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba July 28, 2004. Detainees in Camp 4, a lower security area, have privileges which include white clothing, more exercise and reading lessons. Preparations are nearing completion on the Naval base for war crimes tribunals, the first held by the United States since the World War II era. The proceedings are expected to begin within months. U.S. military censors reviewed photographs from inside the prison. REUTERS/Joe Skipper JLS 

Marines at camp X-Ray at the Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba escort
a newly arriving detainee into a processing tent after being showered
February 7, 2002. As the new group of al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners
arrived from Afghanistan at the U.S. Navy base, White House spokesman
Ari Fleischer said in Washington that U.S. President George W. Bush had
decided to apply the Geneva Convention to Taliban prisoners without
formally classifying Taliban fighters as prisoners of war. REUTERS/Marc
Serota

HK/SV 

Dawn breaks over Camp Delta in the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay
where 600 prisoners from Afghanistan are being held, seen from the
Cuban military observation post on Picote Hill, September 11, 2002,
eight months to the day after the first suspected Taliban and al-Qaeda
prisoners were flown in. Communist Cuba says it has been cooperating
with the United States on security issues around the base's perimeter.
REUTERS/Rafael Perez

AB/ME 

Aerial view of Camp X-ray from the 'Mirador de Malones' hillside, from a ditance of three kilometers, on the Cuban side near Guantanamo Bay, February 8, 2002. As the new group of al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners arrived from Afghanistan at the U.S. Navy base, U.S. officials decided to apply the Geneva Convention to Taliban prisoners without formally classifying Taliban fighters as prisoners of war. A new group of 28 al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners joined 158 captives already being held in outdoor cells at the base. 

U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld confirmed December 27, 2001 the
United States is planning to turn its Navy base at Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba, into a detention centre for al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners. "We
are making preparations to hold detainees there," Rumsfeld told
reporters at a regular Pentagon briefing on Thursday. Guantanamo Naval
Base, seen in this January 15 1998 file photo, is America's only
military installation on communist soil.REUTERS/Colin Braley/file

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