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April-Agro's enterprising president, Morris Demel, 50, a Polish-born Jew who grew up in Cuba and fled to Puerto Rico after Castro's takeover, planned to grow produce on arid southern coast farmland once used for sugar cane. Importing five Israeli agronomists and applying drip-irrigation methods developed on Israeli kibbutzim, Demel initially wanted to devote 5,000 acres to fruits and vegetables. But seven years after he began the project, only 1,000 acres are under cultivation...
Even as allegations of Koran abuse at the U.S.'s naval base in Cuba were still making headlines, the Pentagon was bracing for a new storm as reporters last week sorted through several thousand pages of transcripts from tribunals in which detainees challenged their designation as enemy combatants. Earlier, as the government prepared to release the transcripts, as required by a Freedom of Information Act filing, military officials reviewed them, looking for "potentially controversial and embarrassing items" about which their superiors should be notified in advance, according to a Pentagon memo that TIME has seen. To make sense...
...HELD THERE? Since the first 20 prisoners were taken there from Afghanistan in January 2002, the U.S. has used its naval base in Cuba as its main holding area for suspected members of al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Some 750 detainees have passed through its gates at one time or another. Today it houses about 520, with the majority hailing from Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan or Yemen. The most recent batch of new prisoners arrived last September...
...THEY APPEAL? Because Guantánamo is on foreign soil-leased from Cuba since 1903-the U.S. has argued that the detainees are beyond the reach of U.S. law. Last June, however, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that prisoners have the right to challenge their captivity in federal court. Since then, some 150 detainees have filed petitions doing just that. The government has argued that the Combatant Status Review Tribunals-panels of three military officers that have been in place since last July-have given detainees all the due process to which they are entitled. Earlier this year a federal judge...
...CHARGED. LUIS POSADA CARRILES, 77, anti-Castro Cuban exile wanted by Venezuela, Cuba's close ally, for his alleged role in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner off the coast of Barbados that killed 73 people, a charge Posada denies; with illegal entry into the U.S.; by immigration officials; in Washington, D.C. A former CIA operative trained by the U.S. military, he has admitted his role in other terrorist bombings in Havana, and his widely publicized presence in the U.S. over the last two months led to criticism that the U.S. has a double standard on terror suspects. Though...