Map of Camp Delta from "Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedures".

The Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedures is a document that was written under the authority of Geoffrey D. Miller when he was the officer in charge of Joint Task Force Guantanamo.^[1][2] This leaked document was published on WikiLeaks on Wednesday November 7, 2007.

According to Wired magazine, the 238-page document was dated March 28, 2003, and was signed by Miller.^[1] Wired reports that the American Civil Liberties Union had requested the release of the document under the Freedom of Information Act in October 2003.

Wired reports that Miller specified four levels of access the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) would be allowed to captives:^[1]

• No Access
• Visual Access – ICRC can only look at a prisoner's physical condition.
• Restricted Access – ICRC representatives can only ask short questions about the prisoner's health.
• Unrestricted Access

Wired reports that spokesmen from the Department of Defense declined to comment on the leak.^[1] The Associated Press reports that Army Lieutenant Colonel Ed Bush called the manual out-of-date.^[2] According to Lieutenant Colonel Bush, AP reports, dogs are no longer used, and the Red Cross is no longer denied access to any of the captives.

References[link]

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Ryan Singel (November 14, 2007). "Sensitive Guantánamo Bay Manual Leaked Through Wiki Site". Wired magazine. http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/11/gitmo#. Retrieved 2007-11-14. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "US: Leaked Gitmo Manual Out of Date". Associated Press. November 14, 2007. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hMWigm_hQ2FTGealn3uipPxbD2PAD8STS7JG2. Retrieved 2007-11-14. 

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The term standard operating procedure, or SOP, is used in a variety of different contexts, including healthcare, aviation, education, industry, and military.

The U.S. military sometimes uses the term Standing — rather than Standard — Operating Procedure, because a military SOP refers to a unit's unique procedures, which are not necessarily standard to another unit. "Standard" could imply that there is a one (standard) procedure to be used across all units.

Clinical research and practice[link]

In clinical research, the International Conference on Harmonisation (ICH) defines SOPs as "detailed, written instructions to achieve uniformity of the performance of a specific function". SOPs get usually applied in pharmaceutical processing and for related clinical studies. There the focus is set on always repeated applying of unchanged processes and procedures and its documenting, hence supporting the segregation of origins, causes and effects. Further application is with triage, when limited resources get used according to an assessment on ranking, urgence and staffing possibilities^[1]. ^[2] Study director is the main responsible for SOP.Quality Assurance Unit are individuals who are responsible for monitoring whether the study report and tests are meeting the SOP.

Business and manufacturing practice[link]

An SOP is a written document or instruction detailing all steps and activities of a process or procedure. ISO 9001 essentially requires the documentation of all procedures used in any manufacturing process that could affect the quality of the product.^[3]

See also[link]

• Quality control
• GxP
• Rules of engagement
• Runbook
• Run Book Automation
• Operational research
• Bureaucracy

References[link]

1. ^ McMurdo Station Medical Standard Operating Procedures as of 2006/06
2. ^ The following link gives you some suggestions about SOP in clinical area. http://www.sop-standard-operating-procedure.com/
3. ^ Guidance on the Documentation Requirements of ISO 9001:2008

External links[link]

• Clinical Trials Standard Operating Procedures Templates for Clinical Investigators
• ICH Guidance E6: Good Clinical Practice: Consolidated guideline
• European Medicines Agency Guideline for Good Clinical Practice
• SOP Writing for Clinical Trials: Staff Training Aspects by Akanksha Saxena, International Biopharmaceutical Association Publication, 2005.
• GMP SOP Templates for pharmaceutical operations

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A Camp Delta recreation and exercise area at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The detention block is shown with sunshades drawn on December 3, 2002.

Camp Delta is a permanent detainment camp at Guantanamo Bay that replaced the temporary facilities of Camp X-Ray. Its first facilities were built between February 27 and mid-April 2002 by Navy Seabees, Marine Engineers, and workers from Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root.^{[citation needed]} It is composed of detention camps 1 through 6, Camp Platinum, Camp Iguana, the Guantanamo psychiatric ward, Camp Echo and Camp No. The prisoners, referred to as detainees, have uncertain rights due to their location not on American soil. There are allegations of torture and abuse of prisoners ^[1]

Most of the security forces are U.S. Army military police, and U.S. Navy Masters-at-Arms.

The camps have different amenities and levels of comfort. The arduous assignments^[jargon] given to different parts of Camp Delta is determined by how much the prisoner cooperates with guards and interrogators, with the exception of newly arriving detainees who always go to maximum security in Camp 3. Thereafter, cooperative detainees are moved to Camp 2 and then Camp 1 as rewards for cooperation. When detainees cooperate and are thought to show no security risk they can be moved to the buildings of Camp 4, which have a shower and lavatory, plus four communal living rooms for 10 detainees each. In Camp 4, each detainnee has a bed and a locker. Camp 4 detainees may eat their meals together, instead of alone in their own cells as in the other camps, and Camp 4 detainees are set apart by their white jump suits, in contrast to the orange worn by detainees in other camps. In addition to these benefits, detainees are also allowed special meal supplements to the their diets, along with longer shower periods and longer exercise periods.

Camp one[link]

Camp one is one of the camps where the United States held detainees classified as "enemy combatants in extrajudicial detention". Although the camp was reported to have been closed Human Rights Watch reported in June 2008 that it currently houses non-compliant detainees. At that time they said the camp held 25 detainees in adjacent cells.^[2]

Camp three[link]

Camp three is one of the camps that held detainees classified as "enemy combatants in extrajudicial detention."^[3]

Although the camp was closed in 2006 Human Rights Watch reported in June 2008 that it was then used to house half a dozen non-compliant detainees, who had to be housed in isolation.^[3] The detainees' cells were sufficiently isolated from one another that they couldn't see one another. Additionally, there were noise generators near each cell so they couldn't hear one another.

Camp four[link]

Camp four barracks, May 2006.

Camp five[link]

A camp five cell.

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GIs inspect every detainee every three minutes.^[4]

According to Commander Jeff Hayhurst, deputy commander of the Guard force, "...the camp opened in 2004, cost $17.5 million. It’s modeled on a max security facility in Terre Haute, Indiana." The camp was built by Kellogg, Brown and Root. Hayhurst said that the camp was used to hold the most non-compliant detainees.

In September 2006 National Public Radio reported that the camp could hold 100 detainees, and was about half full.^[5][6]

Initially the press was told the fourteen "high value detainees" transferred from CIA custody on September 5, 2006 were held in Camp five. But they were in fact held in a small, secret, ultra high security facility -- Camp seven.^[5][6]

The Department of Defense reports that Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh Al Hanashi committed suicide in camp five on June 1, 2009.^[7][8][9]

Camp six[link]

Camp six, under construction.

Camp Six, constructed by Halliburton, was modeled on US Federal medium-security penitentiaries.^{[10][10][11][11][12]}

It was constructed to have individual cells that surrounded and looked in on a communal mess area, where it was planned compliant detainees could interact for part of the day. However, while the building was still under construction, the decision was made to confine all detainees to their cells, except when they were taken to shower, taken for solitary exercise, or for official business.^[13][14] The communal areas were left unused. This transformed the facility to a high-security facility.

In April 2010 The Guardian published a photo essay, that showed that a TV had been installed in the common areas.^[15] Detainees were shackled to the floor during their TV privileges.

Camp seven[link]

Camp Seven, also known as Camp Platinum, is an isolated outpost, strictly off-limits from the Pentagon's media tour.^[16] A group of six mostly military lawyers representing prisoners at Camp seven concluded in February 2012 that the conditions at the camp fall short of the minimum guarantees of humane treatment under the Geneva Conventions.^[17]

See also[link]

• Platt Amendment - Document that Guarantees U.S. Navy use in Cuba
• Combatant Status Review Tribunal
• Qur'an desecration controversy of 2005
• Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
• Guantanamo military commissions
• Administrative Review Board

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Guantanamo Bay detainment camp

Wikinews has related news: Standard Operating Procedure changes at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay

• Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedures
• Camp Delta: Still in Need of Closure by James Day, Daily Metro, July 15, 2009
• Photos - Inside Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay