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Cuba Guantanamo Camp

Photos of the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.


The camp is located on the Guantánamo naval base at Guantanamo Bay in southeast Cuba. In the military detention center high-security inmates are qualified as "combatants off-the-law", captured by U.S. forces in various operations conducted abroad (Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.. ) against militants and "terrorists" Islamists. The choice of this center in Cuba on a U.S. military base was justified by President George W. Bush to establish legally the decision to refuse to subject detainees to U.S. federal court system, building on the extra-territoriality of the base.


There was, in fall 2001, approximately 750 detainees from about twenty different countries. From 2001 to 2004, more than 200 prisoners were released, many were found in their home country as the six prisoners of French nationality or receive amnesty as hundreds of Afghans. In April 2006, 558 people were imprisoned at Guantanamo, a number that had dropped to 275 in May 2008 and 192 in January 2010, a year after the deadline set by a presidential decree of President Barack Obama ordering the closure. In total, 779 people passed through this institution between 2002 and December 2008, five of whom committed suicide.


In June 2006 the Supreme Court declared illegal the proceedings of emergency in place at Guantanamo. An advocacy group Human Rights based in London estimated that 60 detainees [When ?] Are minor.
Entrance to the camp five Guantanamo


A study by the U.S. military says at least 30 former Guantanamo detainees have been killed or captured during fighting in Afghanistan in Pakistan or Iraq, and that 95% of them constituted a threat to "American interests" because of their affiliation with the Islamist movement.


This place of detention outside any legal framework draws criticism from the international public opinion, governments and associations defending human rights. Many testimonies and documents reflect degrading detention conditions and the use of torture techniques on prisoners.


On November 16, 2008, Barack Obama, then president-elect, confirmed its intention to close the camp. But this closure raises particular legal problems as the fact that a confession had been obtained "under duress", thus creating a procedural flaw, which could lead the court to release American prisoners, including at least one, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has been held responsible for the attacks of September 11, 2001. On 22 January 2009, Obama signed a presidential decree ordering the closure of the camp within a year. The high security prison in the small town of Thomson, Illinois, built in 2001, but the 2800 cells are not all met, will be purchased by the federal government. Many difficulties, both political and administrative and legal barriers to achieving the closure of Guantanamo prisoners who still has 176 in August 2010. [In Wikipedia ]

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Algeria by Google Earth




Algeria (Arabic: الجزائر, Tamazight: dzayer), officially the People's Democratic Republic (RAPD) is State of North Africa which is part of the Maghreb. Its capital, Algiers , is located north on the Mediterranean coast. With an area of 2,381,741 sq km, is the largest country bordering the Mediterranean and the second largest in Africa after Sudan. He shares land borders to the north-east with Tunisia in the east with Libya in the south with Niger and Mali, south-west Mauritania and the disputed territory of Western Sahara, and finally to the west with Morocco. After 132 years of French rule, Algeria gained its independence July 5, 1962.

From 1962, the Algerian government has adopted a highly centralized planned economy, the first objectives were to give Algeria independence in the economic recovery by including wealth national. A series of nationalizations is conducted as such, particularly involving foreign companies. Subsequently a considerable effort of industrialization is deployed. But this policy was immediately challenged by the new situation introduced by the oil shock of 1986, the state could no longer endure during this period the financial investment it consented to the benefit of national companies and was not able to respond positively to the new wave of applications that have greatly increased with increasing population, the country has known since independence. The Algeria uses from 1988 to IMF structural adjustment to achieve a comprehensive reform program is committed to ensure a transition from a socialist economy to a market economy.


Today Algeria has a very favorable economic situation both internally and externally, in particular following the very strong increase in oil prices, the country's economic growth has followed a progression constant and stable from 2.1% in 2001 to 5.3% in 2005, with a peak of 6.8% in 2003, the multi-year projections associated with the law Finance 2005 predict an average growth of 5.3% per annum for the period 2005-2009. Despite the presence of excess liquidity due to the abundance of oil, inflation is under control thanks to the strict control exercised by the Bank of Algeria, the rate of inflation at the end of 2005 was 1.5% against 3, 6% for 2004. Externally, Algeria is the third largest economy in Africa with a GDP of USD 171.3 billion, behind South Africa with USD 300.4 billion and Nigeria with 220.3 billion USD, the amount GDP per capita is estimated in 2008 to 5.073 USD.

Transportation in Algeria:

Algeria has 35 airports, including 13 international. The most important is the Algiers airport with a capacity since 2006, 6 million passengers per year. Air Algeria, the national airline, dominates the market for its air transport which has since its opening to competition 8 other private companies. It deals with several lines to the Europe, Africa, Canada, China, the Middle East. Several foreign airlines have flights to Algeria (Tunisair, Royal Air Morocco, Air France, Air Italy, Aigle Azur, Lufthansa, Turkish Airlines, British Airways, etc..).

Telecommunications in Algeria:

sector of mobile telephony has increased for the period 2001-2006 from 100 000 to more than 20 million subscribers, and known from 2005 to 2006, a penetration rate of 67.8%. The evolution of the fixed telephone market is relatively stagnant, but Internet access is still rare despite the large deployment of new technologies (including fiber optic network of 23,457 km). The World Bank in 2005, Algeria had an average of 494 telephone lines per 1000 people and about 58 for Internet users. In Algeria, the private operator Nedjma in partnership with RIM launched a preview of the Maghreb, November 15, 2006, the first BlackBerry offering. The operator Djezzy (Orascom Telecom Algeria) introduced the BlackBerry in 2007 followed by the incumbent Mobilis (Algeria Telecom). [In Wikipedia ]

View from in Algeria night.

Two boats stranded at the same location is Skikda - Algeria

Plan water in the western Algerian or something else?

Enigmatic subdivision in western Algeria.

Dam in Chefia eastern Algeria.

The Roman city of Lambese near Batna in Algeria.

City Sfisef in western Algeria. (Algeria)

dam near Beni Haroun Mila in eastern Algeria. (Algeria)

If You Put The Peace Sign Side Ways

Djemila Roman city

Djémila, Djemila, or Djamila (from Arabic: جميلة, "beautiful") is a municipality in north-eastern Algeria, located in the wilaya of Setif, bordering regions of Lower Kabylia and Constantine. The town contains the remains of ancient Cuicul Roman city, declared World Heritage by UNESCO.

History

Cuicul The colony was founded on a rugged terrain north of Algeria in the late first century (96) probably Veterans of Nerva and his name is that of a village or a Berber place that had not yet been Latinized. Timgad is above one of the last colony in Africa Roman deduction.

Under the Antonines (96-192) the city was beautified with a forum, a capitol, several temples, a senate, a market and a theater . With the construction of large resorts during the reign of Commodus marks the expansion of the city to the south.

Under the Severi (192-235) to organize new neighborhoods south of the forum around a vast square, new streets were laid out, and the city gradually became a city in which to live, which develops luxury homes.

the mid-third century, an economic crisis following poor harvests paralyzed trade and hindered the development of the city.

Late Antiquity see Cuicul continue a vibrant urban life. In the fourth century, conversion to Christianity of the people breathed a resurgence of activity and urban expansion with the erection of a Christian neighborhood. A baptistery and a church implanted at the south end of town, a civil basilica is built on the site Severian. The luxurious houses of the notables are constantly being developed up considerable areas, private baths and tooling up to give considerable space for receptions (private basilicas). The house of Europe or of Castorius reveal this lifestyle of the rich local leaders and have retained a large mosaic decoration.

Cuicul is occupied in 431 by the Vandals who persecute Catholics until their departure after the agreements concluded with Genseric in 442.

When the city was reconquered by the Byzantines, she regained a semblance of stability and activity, but fell into oblivion in the late sixth century.

In 1909, after construction of a driveway, that systematic excavations were undertaken by the department of Historical Monuments. Madame de Cresolles, archaeologist, led the evolution of the ruins until 1941. Miss Y. Allais, who summarized the history of the city, succeeded him in 1942.

Given the state of conservation of the ruins, the city has been declared a World Heritage of Humanity in 1982. [In Wikipedia ]

Overview of the Roman city of Djemila in Algeria .

The ruins of the Roman city of Djemila in Algeria.

The ruins of the Roman city of Djemila in Algeria.