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[Tanya]

Hurricane Dennis Bears Down on Cuba, Topples Guard Tower at Guantanamo Base

By Anita Snow Associated Press Writer
Published: Jul 8, 2005

"HAVANA (AP) - Hurricane Dennis stalked Cuba's southern coast before making landfall Friday as it aimed to slice across the Caribbean's largest island, packing 145 mph (235 kph) winds capable of catastrophic damage that sent thousands fleeing the Florida Keys and raised fears of more disruption to U.S. oil operations in the Gulf of Mexico.
Winds and heaving surf tossed a lifeguard tower into the sea and roared over a razor-wire fence at the U.S. detention camp for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, on the island's eastern end."

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"Also spared overnight was the U.S. detention camp on Cuba's extreme southeast end, holding about 520 terror suspects.

Heaving surf tore away a lifeguard tower at Windmill Beach and storm force winds reaching 40 mph (65 kilometers) destroyed a bus shelter. A few power lines and tree branches were knocked down and there was minor flooding.

"Actually, everybody fared real well," said Navy Cmdr. Anne Reese.

On Thursday, troops watched from a cliff as the churning Atlantic Ocean threw up massive waves of salt spray that towered over the razor wire fence surrounding the camp at Guantanamo Bay.

The troops fixed metal shutters over the steel mesh windows of some prison cells overlooking the sea at Camp Delta, which is just 150 yards (meters) from the ocean.

Hurricane Center forecasters warned Cuba's southeast Sierra Maestra Mountains could get up to 15 inches (38 centimeters) of rain, with about 10 inches (25 centimeters) falling on Jamaica's coffee-producing Blue Mountains.

In Haiti, a bus that had been carrying 40 passengers lay sideways on the road from the southwestern town of Les Cayes and the capital of Port-au-Prince. The vehicle flipped onto its side Thursday because the driver could not see through heavy rain, said 55-year-old passenger Adner Arius. He said three people, including the driver and a child, were hurt.

At least a dozen houses along the road were flooded."

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBLHAXTWAE.html

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[LewWaters]

How long until the ACLU, Durbin, sKerry, Kennedy, Pelosi and others are whining about the poor detainees may have gotten wet?
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[carpro]

This little weather event ought to be a really different experience for most of the terrorists at GITMO.

Talk about terror.

I can feel their knees knocking from here.
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