‘An affront to justice ’ The festering legacy of Guantánamo Bay
On 4 January 2002, Brigadier General Michael Lehnert received an urgent deployment order. He would take a small force of marines and sailors and build a prison camp in the US-run military enclave on Cuba’s south coast, Guantánamo Bay.
Lehnert had 96 hours to deploy and build the first 100 cells, in time for the first plane load of captives arriving from the battlefield in Afghanistan on 11 January. The job was
