Guantanamo, Cuba

The ship landed in Guantanamo, Cuba on the second of March, all waited aboard the ship a couple of days while another convoy was formed, which departed on March fourth. 

The convoy proceeded for three days from Cuba to San Juan, Puerto Rico, where they arrived on March 7. The NDRC group had several days of shore leave. John Otvos estimates that one hundred or more soldiers were loaded onto the ship, and two hundred goats were brought on and tied to the railing around the deck, thereby usurping the best locations on the ship. They sailed from San Juan on March 12, proceeded, not to Panama, but back to Guantanamo, Cuba, where they stayed for two days, and then on March 15, they headed for Panama. 

Camp X-Ray—The Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison, which houses al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners. 

As with other modes of transportation, evidence for fatigue-related accidents in aviation exists. In 1993, the NTSB concluded in its report regarding the loss of a Douglas DC-8 at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba that the impaired judge-... 

National Transportation Safety Board. Uncontrolled collision with terrain American International Airways Flight 808, Douglas DC-8-61, N814CK U.S. Naval Air Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba August 18, 1993. NTSB Report AAR-94—04, 1994. 

The Government of the Republic of Cuba declares, in conformity with article III(l)(a)(iii) of the Convention, that there is a colonial enclave in its territory - the Guantanamo Naval Base - a part of Cuban national territory over which the Cuban State does not exercise its rightful jurisdiction, owing to its illegal occupation by the United States of America by reason of a deceitful and fraudulent Treaty. 

The Government of the Republic of Cuba also considers that it has the right to require that the entry of any inspection group mandated by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, to carry out in the territory of Guantanamo Naval Base the verification activities provided for in the Convention, should be effected through a point of entry in Cuban national territory to be determined by the Cuban Government. 

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