The Al Qaeda prisoners were taken to GITMO because it's an active Naval Base home to like 6,000 people.
Mission: As the premier southern-most deep-water U.S. Naval Base in the Western Hemisphere, Naval Station Guantanamo Bay strives to provide state-of-the-art self-sustaining infrastructure, while supporting unified, inter-agency joint operations, and training.
The Al Qaeda prisoners were taken to GITMO because it's an active Naval Base home to like 6,000 people.
Mission: As the premier southern-most deep-water U.S. Naval Base in the Western Hemisphere, Naval Station Guantanamo Bay strives to provide state-of-the-art self-sustaining infrastructure, while supporting unified, inter-agency joint operations, and training.
https://cnrse.cnic.navy.mil/Installations/NS-Guantanamo-Bay/
People have conflated work at the base to work at the prison which has 37 prisoners. GITMO just got a new post office.