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Camp Five
The new �Camp Five� will take three times longer to build than the four existing camps, which are made from wire mesh and metal atop concrete slabs, with chain-link fences and wood towers.
�It is a hard-sided concrete building,� Miller said. �Unfortunately, we have to ship everything into Guant�namo Bay by sea, and it takes time to get the materials down here.�
The contractor is Kellogg, Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Vice President Dick Cheney�s former company, Texas-based Halliburton. The watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense says the subsidiary received $1.3 billion in government business last year � much of it, like this, without having to enter a bid.
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Yale Law School professor Harold Koh, who represented Cuban and Haitian migrants at the Guant�namo base in 1994-95, said by phone that the construction means �we are just getting further and further in� to an alternative justice system outside the rule of law and unauthorized by Congress.
�If everyone thought about where this is leading us, they might have doubts about whether this is where we want to go,� Koh said. �We have set up an offshore prison camp in an extrajudicial zone where people have no rights, and we assume no one is going to follow our lead....�
For example, he noted, Indonesia is now building an island detention camp for alleged rebels.
�Miami Herald 08.24.03

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