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''''Camp No''' is an alleged secret detention and torture facility ([[black site]]) related to the [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp|United States detainment camps]] located in [[Guantánamo Bay]], [[Cuba]].<ref name=Harpers2010-01-18/> On January 18, 2010, [[Scott Horton (lawyer)|Scott Horton]] asserted in an article in ''[[Harper's magazine]],'' the result of a joint investigation with [[NBC News]], that such a facility was maintained outside the regular boundaries of the [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp]]s.<ref name=Harpers2010-01-18> {{cite news | url=http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/01/hbc-90006368 | title=The Guantánamo "Suicides": A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle | publisher=[[Harper's magazine]] | date=2010-01-18 | author=[[Scott Horton (lawyer)|Scott Horton]] | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harpers.org%2Farchive%2F2010%2F01%2Fhbc-90006368&date=2010-01-18 | archivedate=2010-01-18 }}</ref><ref name=AP2010-01-18> {{cite news | url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5h97BGvSdx97hHzNDkUiDzI8JsB7A | title=Questions over deaths of 3 Guantanamo detainees raised by magazine article | author=Associated Press | work=[[Canadian Press]] | date=2010-01-18 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fhostednews%2Fcanadianpress%2Farticle%2FALeqM5h97BGvSdx97hHzNDkUiDzI8JsB7A&date=2010-01-18 | archivedate=2010-01-18 }}</ref> ==Description== Estimated to be located about a mile beyond the regular camp boundaries, the camp was described as a highly secret facility referred to as "Camp No" by Guantanamo guards. When soldiers asked about it, they were told "No, it doesn't exist". The compound looked like other camps except that it was surrounded by [[concertina wire]] and had no guard towers. The guards who told Horton about it said that it looked as if it could hold 80 prisoners. Some areas looked like the interrogation centers in other parts of the main camp. They had seen non-uniformed personnel going to that area and speculated they were [[CIA]]. They suggest that the camp was used for secret interrogations, including the use of illegal [[interrogation#Interrogation techniques|interrogation techniques]], such as [[waterboarding]], commonly classified as torture.<ref name=Harpers2010-01-18/><ref name=AP2010-01-18/> In an account published in ''Harper's'', guards attested they had seen three prisoners taken individually in the direction of Camp No by the vehicle they called the [[paddy wagon]], the night of June 9. The paddy wagon contained a cage large enough to hold one prisoner at a time. All three had been taken there by 8 pm.<ref name=Harpers2010-01-18/> ==Homicides related to Camp No== {{main|Guantanamo Bay homicide accusations}} Horton asserts that, according to interviews he conducted with four former camp guards, Army Staff Sergeant Joseph Hickman, and three men who served under him, the three detainees reported by the military on June 10, 2006 as having [[Guantanamo suicide attempts|committed suicide]] instead having likely [[Guantanamo Bay murder accusations|died]] while at Camp No, or soon afterward, as a result of secret interrogations under torture. The [[Department of Defense|DOD]] had announced that the three men had died in their cellblock by hanging themselves in their cells. The [[Naval Criminal Investigative Service]] (NCIS) released a heavily redacted report in August 2008; it said that the three men's hangings had gone undetected for two hours.<ref name=SetonHall>{{cite web |url=http://law.shu.edu/about/news_events/releases.cfm?id=79165 |title=SETON HALL LAW RELEASES LATEST GTMO REPORT, "DEATH IN CAMP DELTA" |publisher=Seton Hall University School of Law (press release) |date=2009-12-07}}</ref> The detainees were [[Ali Abdullah Ahmed|Salah Ahmed Al-Salami]], [[Mani Shaman Turki al-Habardi Al-Utaybi|Mani al-Utaybi]], and [[Yasser Talal Al Zahrani|Yasser al-Zahrani]]. Horton wrote that DOD carried out a cover-up in asserting that the deaths were the result of suicides, all carried out the same night. He said the guards reported having seen a van, used only for the transport of individual prisoners, return that night from the direction of Camp No and go directly to the medical center, where something was unloaded. There was soon much crisis-related activity. This was before 11:45 pm, more than an hour before the first bodies of the "suicides" were reportedly discovered in the cellblock.<ref name=Harpers2010-01-18/> In addition, Sergeant Hickman, whose position in a tower gave him an overview of the cellblock, said that he saw no prisoners being taken from the cellblock to the medical clinic that night. In February 2010, [[Brent Mickum]], the lawyer for [[Shaker Aamer]], a detainee who is a British resident, said his client had described suffering torture at a separate location outside the regular camp on June 9, 2006, when the other detainees died. He was subjected to what has been called [[dryboarding]], which led to temporary [[asphyxiation]].<ref name=TheGuardian2010-02-11> {{cite news | url=http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/local/topstories/5001297.Were_MI5_agents_present_at_Guantanamo_man_s_torture_/ | title=Were MI5 agents present at Battersea Guantanamo man's torture? | publisher=[[The Guardian]] | date=2010-02-11 | author=Paul Callahan | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yourlocalguardian.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Ftopstories%2F5001297.Were_MI5_agents_present_at_Guantanamo_man_s_torture_%2F&date=2010-02-15 | archivedate=2010-02-15 | quote=He added he thought it "likely" Mr Aamer's torture was in the same "black site" area, Camp No, identified by the Harper's article. }}</ref><ref name=ThePublicRecord2010-02-12> {{cite news | url=http://pubrecord.org/torture/6916/torture-afghanistan-guantanamo-shaker/ | title=Torture in Afghanistan and Guantanamo: Shaker Aamer’s Lawyers Speak | publisher=[[The Public Record]] | date=2010-02-12 | author=[[Andy Worthington]] | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpubrecord.org%2Ftorture%2F6916%2Ftorture-afghanistan-guantanamo-shaker%2F&date=2010-02-15 | archivedate=2010-02-15 | quote=Shaker Aamer’s role in this story — which appears to involve a chilling and far-reaching cover-up — concerns statements he made to his lawyers, describing how, on the night that the three men died with gags stuffed in their mouths, he too was gagged and beaten so mercilessly that he was lucky to survive. Brent Mickum told [[Cahalan]] that Shaker Aamer was, effectively, being silenced to cover up “wrongdoing”... }}</ref> Mickum said that, from Aamer's description, he thought it "'likely' Mr Aamer's torture was in the same 'black site' area, Camp No, identified by the Harper's article."<ref name=TheGuardian2010-02-11/> Although Aamer was cleared for release in 2009, he was still being held until October 2015. ==See also== * [[Strawberry Fields (Guantanamo)]] ==References== <references/> ==External links== *[http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/10/03/us-court-denies-justice-to-dead-men-at-guantanamo/ "US Court Denies Justice to Dead Men at Guantánamo"], Andy Worthington, October 3, 2010 *[http://www.adweek.com/news/press/national-magazine-award-and-guant-namo-tall-tale-gets-prize-131768 Alex Koppelman, "The National Magazine Award and Guantánamo: A Tall Tale Gets the Prize&ndash;Scott Horton's Harper's story about detainees' deaths doesn't hold up"], ''[[Adweek]]'', May 23, 2011 {{coord missing|Cuba}} {{GuantanamoExtrajudicialDetentionCamps}} {{WoTPrisoners}} [[Category:Prisons in Guantanamo Bay]] [[Category:Black sites]]'