"Guantanamo" now is not just a name of a beautiful town in the province of Orients, situated near the head of the most important harbor East of the city of Santiago on the Southern coast.

It symbolizes much of the crimes committed by the Bush-Cheney administration, and those in the U.S. Congress and Senate who have supported the American President’s so-called “war on terror”.

It’s a metaphor for how the United States carelessly ignores the rule of law that it so aggressively preaches. But what’s behind this shroud of secrecy covering the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay Cuba, specially after the suicide of the three detainees, Ali Abdullah Ahmed of Yemen, and Mani Shaman Turki al-Habardi al-Utaybi and Yasser Talal al-Zahrani of Saudi Arabia, whom officials at Bush’s administrations described as “irredeemable Jihadists whose deaths were an act of war”?

Waleed Al Tabtabaie, a former member of the Kuwaiti Parliament, called the deaths "a big question mark over America's human rights record", calling on the U.S. to release the prisoners or give them fair trials.

Following June 10 suicides, the Pentagon rescinded all journalists access to the, and jail, sending reporters from the Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald and Charlotte Observer, and many others who came to uncover the truth about what happened and is happening inside the U.S. run-prison back home.

Analysts suggest that Bush’s admin expulsion of reporters and human rights groups from Guantanamo Bay is another attempt by the U.S. government to escape the public and world blame for the scandalous and inhuman conditions at the detention facility.

The controversial living conditions at the U.S.-run Guantanamo detention camp, where most of the detainees had been cut off from the world for more than four years without formally knowing the charges or crime for which they’re being imprisoned, aroused the concern of many human rights groups all over the world, and recently ignited calls from many politicians, world leaders and rights groups to close the prison and send the detainees to their home countries.

Britain, Germany and Denmark also joined a chorus of world leaders and rights groups that have long raised concerns over the horrific conditions Guantanamo detainees live under, calling on Washington to close it.

"If it is perfectly legal and there is nothing going wrong there, why don't they have it in America?" Britain's Constitutional Affairs Minister Harriet Harman said recently on BBC television.

June 10 suicides of the three Arab detainees at Guantanamo weren’t the first suicide attempt at the jail. Prisoners held at Guantanamo have staged many suicide attempts over the past years, which stands as an evidence of despair and isolation those detainees suffer.

Other than the three Arab detainees who managed to commit suicide by hanging themselves using clothes and bed sheets, 23 prisoners had tried to kill themselves in 41 suicide attempts at the camp.

Most of those whom the U.S. calls “terror suspects” and holds at Guantanamo have been held without charges, and face indefinite detention with none of the rights afforded prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions or to criminal suspects in the U.S. justice system.

They endured inhumane imprisonment and interrogations for no specific crime and in many cases have reportedly been told by prison guards they might stay in Guantanamo for the rest of their lives.

It was the news reporters, who spoke to some of the detainees' lawyers, who uncovered the horrific details of most of the suicide attempts in spite of military restrictions and efforts by the U.S. gov., including censoring their photographs and prohibiting them from interviewing detainees.

President George W. Bush himself has expressed willingness and desire to close Guantanamo, in an apparent attempt to fix his government's tarnished image worldwide.

"I’d like to close Guantanamo. But I also recognize that we're holding some people that are darned dangerous," he said. "They are cold-blooded killers" who will "murder someone if out on the street" An article on The Billings Gazette stated recently that if those detainees the Bush administration holds at Guantanamo jail are dangerous individuals with connections to Al Qaeda network and the Taliban regime as it claims, then why not hold fair trials to uncover the evidence for that and allow the public an opportunity to weigh the danger they pose, instead of eliminating press oversight?!

If the naval base at Guantanamo is "the most transparent detention facility in the history of warfare," as Pentagon spokesman Navy Lt. Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon recently described it, then the U.S. government should stop acting as if there’s something it’s determined to hide, arousing by that more scrutiny at the treatment of Guantanamo detainees and conditions they live under.