Gitmo detainees allowed phone calls

by Infidelesto on March 12, 2008 · View Comments

What part of “enemy combatant” do they not understand?

What’s next? regular visits? TV? internet?

Yahoo News

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba – The U.S. military said Tuesday that it will allow detainees to make regular phone calls to their families from Guantanamo Bay prison, where many have been confined in extreme isolation for as long as six years.

The new policy by the Defense Department, which previously said security concerns prevented such calls, is part of a strategy to ease conditions for frustrated prisoners at the U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba.

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