Carol Rosenberg

The Navy base at Guantánamo Bay sparkles at night while neighbors across a Cuban minefield struggle in darkness driven by a Trump fuel embargo.

The attacks since early November had specifically targeted suspected drug smuggling boats in the Pacific Ocean.

Dozens of men appear to be caught up in a political standoff between the Trump administration and Cuba.

The operation was authorized by the Marine general who took command of military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean earlier in the day.

The decision clears the way for the first death-penalty trial at Guantánamo Bay to start this summer, more than 25 years after the attack.

The tale illustrates how inefficient the ICE operation has been in the year since President Trump ordered the base to prepare for up to 30,000 “criminal aliens.”

Prosecutors want jury selection to start in January 2027. That would be a quarter century after the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.

The prison has outlasted the war in Afghanistan, has employed tens of thousands of temporary troops and holds six men charged but not yet tried in death penalty cases.