Guantanamo's Camp 7, shrouded in secrecy

Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba) (AFP) - Everyone knows it exists and yet officials clam up at the mere mention of Camp 7, the most secure and secretive area of the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay. Hidden among the arid hills of the sprawling naval base on the Cuban coast, it holds about 15 so-called high value detainees -- including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on US soil. "We simply just don't discuss Camp 7," said Brigadier General Marion Garcia, deputy commander of Joint Task Force Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO), which runs the base's detention centers. "It's not a secret that it's here, but what is classified is its location and any other operation about it or who's in there," echoed Captain John Filostrat, a JTF-GTMO spokesman.

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