Wendy Kelly, the chief of operations for the Office of Military Commissions, agreed in a discussion with reporters that the Expeditionary Legal Complex, the island war court at the base, was her “brainchild.” The legal complex was built in 2007 and first applied in 2008. When asked by the Washington Examiner how the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay have reacted to Biden’s desire to shut detainee operations down and whether she thought that a 9/11 trial will happen, Kelly gave the same response: “OMC will follow the direction and guidance of the Department of Defense leadership. We continue to proceed towards trial.”
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The detention facilities and terror court are only one part of the large naval base at Guantanamo Bay. Some detainee operations may be quietly winding down behind the scenes, though the construction at Camp Justice is visible and continuous. Camp Justice is placed on an unused airfield at the naval base. It is likewise the site where 9/11 pretrial hearings are being held and where a trial, if it happens, will take place.
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In the two decades since 19 al Qaeda terrorists crashed hijacked planes into the World Trade Center and killed almost 3,000 people, the five men thought to be accountable for the planning and execution of the attack have yet to stand trial . Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, dubbed “KSM" and described as “the principal architect of the 9/11 attacks” is being tried alongside four co-defendants.
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Kelly announced that many construction projects to back the military commissions were continuing and that “each project has separate timelines” yet “all will be ready before trial begins.” She continued that “OMC is constructing additional classified office space for the trial participants, a second sensitive compartmentalized information facility courtroom to allow multiple cases to proceed simultaneously, and additional billeting.” That included the purchase of individual housing units “similar to stand-alone studio apartments,” stated Kelly, that will be installed between November and March. The media will stay in tents that have already been built and which Kelly announced will be ready by Christmas.
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The New York Times announced in October that the Defense Logistics Agency ordered the prefabricated housing “for $11.6 million.” The outlet continued that “the prison is staffed with an undisclosed number of contractors, civilian Pentagon employees, and 1,500 U.S. troops” at “costs that in 2019 exceeded $13 million per year.”
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