Camp Thunder Cove, formerly Camp Justice is a United States Navy and Air Forces support facility within the US-UK Naval Support Facility on Diego Garcia, a small and isolated island in the Indian Ocean.[1][2][3] The island is in the Chagos Archipelago, part of the British Indian Ocean Territory.[4][5][6][7]
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"The existence of a US airbase on the island of Diego Garcia has consistently brought controversy on the government," he [British MP Tom Brake] said. "After the recent prisoner abuse scandals in Iraq and Camp X-Ray, the British people have the right to know whether suspects in Bush's War on Terror are being held on British soil.
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John Pilger (October 2, 2004). "Paradise Cleansed: Our deportation of the people of Diego Garcia is a crime that cannot stand". The Guardian. UK. Archived from the original on June 9, 2012. Retrieved 2012-05-08.
A British colony lying midway between Africa and Asia in the Indian Ocean, the island is one of 64 unique coral islands that form the Chagos Archipelago, a phenomenon of natural beauty, and once of peace. Newsreaders refer to it in passing: "American B-52 and Stealth bombers last night took off from the uninhabited British island of Diego Garcia to bomb Iraq (or Afghanistan)."
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David Vine (August 22, 2008). "Homesick for Camp Justice". Mother Jones. Retrieved May 9, 2012.
For the United States, meanwhile, Diego Garcia has grown into a multibillion-dollar base, which the military likes to call the "footprint of freedom." About 4,000 miles closer to the Persian Gulf than homeland bases, it has played an increasingly important role in US attempts to control Middle Eastern oil and natural gas supplies. During both Gulf wars, the island has been used as a launch pad for long-range bombers and prepositioned weaponry and supplies destined for Iraq. Air Force personnel flying from Camp Justice, a new facility built after 9/11, dropped more ordnance on Afghanistan than any other units during the 2001 invasion. Over the last two years, the Bush administration has upgraded a submarine base and added extra wartime supplies—with the motive, some journalists have speculated, of preparing for a possible strike against Iran's nuclear facilities.
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- ^ "United States Navy Diego Garcia Support Facility". United States Navy. Archived from the original on October 10, 2007. Retrieved October 14, 2007.