Some in Congress object to new soccer field at Guantanamo

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Sunday, March 4, 2012
Some in Congress object to new soccer field at Guantanamo
By Carol Rosenberg | McClatchy Newspapers

Some members of Congress are questioning the wisdom of the Pentagon's spending $744,000 on a soccer field to keep captives busy outside a $39 million penitentiary-style building at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
"Seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars for crying out loud?" Rep. Gus Bilirakas, R-Fla., said in a television interview. "Our deficit this year is $1.2 trillion and we're spending this kind of money on terrorists?"

Prison camp commanders unveiled the 28,000-square-foot soccer field during a visit last week by reporters to cover a Pakistani man's guilty plea to war crimes. Commanders called it part of the cost of doing business at the remote outpost and keeping captives diverted at the detention center.

The yard opens in April after contractors install latrines and goals.

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[monmouth]

1. And teachers are pulling money from their own pockets for supplies in their classrooms. The

Defense Department must be very over-budgeted, and I would add this really pi$$e$ me off. Ridiculous...

[dipsydoodle]

2. They're not terrrorists until charged and found guilty

£500.000 or so don't sound bad for a decent pitch.