Camp Five
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.
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.
The Department of Defense reports that Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh Al Hanashi committed suicide in camp five on June 1, 2009.
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