[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 13845-13846]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              CONCERNING THE ROLE OF GUANTANAMO BAY PRISON

  (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was given permission to address the House

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for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, the detention facility at Guantanamo 
Bay is of strategic importance in winning the global war against 
terrorism. Guantanamo provides the United States with a secure 
interrogation center to gain essential intelligence information from 
terrorists. Illegal enemy combatants held at Guantanamo Bay include 
terrorist trainers, bomb-
makers, would-be suicide bombers and terrorist financiers. Through the 
detainees held at this facility, we have learned about the detonation 
system used in roadside bombs in Iraq by the insurgency, bombs that 
have killed our troops and innocent Iraqi citizens. Detainees include 
20 of Osama bin Laden's personal bodyguards as well as one of the 
architects of the September 11 attacks and suspected 20th hijacker in 
the attack on our country on September 11.
  GITMO is designed to save the lives of our citizens and our service 
men and women from future acts of terror. Let us continue to support 
this important mission to protect the safety of our constituents and 
our Nation.

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