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Isla de la Juventud is the second - largest Cuban island and the seventh - largest island in the West Indies ( after ___MASK31___ itself , Hispaniola , Jamaica , Puerto Rico , Trinidad , and Andros Island ). The island was called the Isle of Pines ( Isla de Pinos ) until 1978 . It has an area and is south of the island of ___MASK31___ , across the Gulf of Batabanó . The island lies almost directly south of Havana and Pinar del Río and is a Special Municipality , not part of any province and is therefore administered directly by the central government of ___MASK31___ . The island has only one municipality , also named Isla de la Juventud . ___MASK66___ is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea , consisting of the third - largest island of the Greater Antilles . The island , in area , lies about south of ___MASK31___ , and west of Hispaniola ( the island containing the nation - states of Haiti and the Dominican Republic ). ___MASK66___ is the fourth - largest island country in the Caribbean , by area . ___MASK31___ , officially the Republic of ___MASK31___ , is a country comprising the island of ___MASK31___ as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos . ___MASK31___ is located in the northern Caribbean where the Caribbean Sea , the Gulf of Mexico , and the Atlantic Ocean meet . It is south of both the U . S . state of Florida and the Bahamas , west of Haiti , and north of Jamaica . Havana is the largest city and capital ; other major cities include Santiago de ___MASK31___ and Camagüey . ___MASK31___ is the largest island in the Caribbean , with an area of , and the second - most populous after Hispaniola , with over 11 million inhabitants . Western Asia , West Asia , Southwestern Asia or Southwest Asia is the westernmost subregion of Asia . The concept is in limited use , as it significantly overlaps with the Middle East ( or Near East ), the main difference being the exclusion of ___MASK2___ ( which would be counted as part of North Africa ). The term is sometimes used for the purposes of grouping countries in statistics . Eastern Arabia was historically known as Bahrain until the 18th century . This region stretched from the south of Basra along the Persian Gulf coast and included the regions of Bahrain , Kuwait , Al - Hasa , Qatif , United Arab Emirates , ___MASK15___ , Southern Iraq , and Northern ___MASK96___ . The entire coastal strip of Eastern Arabia was known as  Bahrain  for ten centuries . Iraq (, or ; '; '), officially known as the Republic of Iraq ('; ') is a country in Western Asia , bordered by ___MASK50___ to the north , Iran to the east , Kuwait to the southeast , Saudi Arabia to the south , Jordan to the southwest , and Syria to the west . The capital , and largest city , is Baghdad . The main ethnic groups are Arabs and Kurds ; others include Assyrians , Turkmen , Shabakis , Yazidis , Armenians , Mandeans , Circassians , and Kawliya . Around 95 % of the country ' s 36 million citizens are Muslims , with Christianity , Yarsan , Yezidism , and Mandeanism also present . The official languages of Iraq are Arabic and Kurdish . Counter - terrorism ( also spelled counterterrorism ) ( also called anti - terrorism ) incorporates the practice , military tactics , techniques , and strategy that government , military , law enforcement , business , and intelligence agencies use to combat or prevent terrorism . Counter - terrorism strategies include attempts to counter financing of terrorism . Abdallah Saleh Ali Al Ajmi ( 2 August 1978 -- 23 March 2008 ) was a Kuwaiti citizen , who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps , in ___MASK31___ . His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 220 . Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter - terrorism analysts reports indicated that he was born on 2 August 1978 , in Almadi , Kuwait . On 2 September 2003 , attorneys Thomas Wilner , Neil H . Koslowe , Kristine A . Huskey , and Heather Lamberg Kafele filed a Petition for writ of Certiorari on behalf of Al Ajmi and eleven other Guantanamo detainees . In March or April 2008 , Al Ajmi conducted a suicide attack in Iraq . Joint Task Force Guantanamo ( JTF - GTMO ) is a U . S . military joint task force based at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base , Guantánamo Bay , ___MASK31___ on the southeastern end of the island . JTF - GTMO falls under US Southern Command . Since January 2002 the command has operated the Guantanamo Bay detention camps Camp X - Ray and its successors Camp Delta , Camp V , and Camp Echo , where detained prisoners are held who have been captured in the war in Afghanistan and elsewhere since the September 11 , 2001 attacks . The unit is currently under the command of Rear Admiral Peter J . Clarke . An Internment Serial Number ( ISN ) is an identification number assigned to captives who come under control of the United States Department of Defense ( DoD ) during armed conflicts . ___MASK53___ ( Spanish : " La Habana ") is the capital city , largest city , province , major port , and leading commercial centre of ___MASK31___ . The city proper has a population of 2 . 1 million inhabitants , and it spans a total of  making it the largest city by area , the most populous city , and the third largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean region . The city extends mostly westward and southward from the bay , which is entered through a narrow inlet and which divides into three main harbours : Marimelena , Guanabacoa and Atarés . The sluggish Almendares River traverses the city from south to north , entering the Straits of Florida a few miles west of the bay . Camagüey is a city and municipality in central ___MASK31___ and is the nation ' s third largest city with more than 321 , 000 inhabitants . It is the capital of the Camagüey Province . ___MASK23___ , known officially as the Commonwealth of ___MASK23___ , is an archipelagic state within the Lucayan Archipelago . It consists of more than 700 islands , cays , and islets in the Atlantic Ocean and is located north of ___MASK31___ and Hispaniola ( Haiti and the Dominican Republic ); northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands ; southeast of the US state of Florida and east of the Florida Keys . The state capital is Nassau on the island of New Providence . The designation of " ___MASK23___ " can refer to either the country or the larger island chain that it shares with the Turks and Caicos Islands . As stated in the mandate / manifesto of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force , ___MASK23___ territory encompasses of ocean space . Guantanamo Bay Naval Base , also known as Naval Station Guantanamo Bay or NSGB , ( also called GTMO because of the airfield designation code or Gitmo because of the common pronunciation of this code by the U . S . military ) is a United States military base located on of land and water at Guantánamo Bay , ___MASK31___ , which the US leased for use as a coaling and naval station in 1903 ( for $ 2 , 000 per year until 1934 , when it was increased to $ 4 , 085 per year ). The base is on the shore of Guantánamo Bay at the southeastern end of ___MASK31___ . It is the oldest overseas U . S . Naval Base . Since the Cuban Revolution of 1959 , the Cuban government has consistently protested against the U . S . presence on Cuban soil and called it illegal under international law , alleging that the base was imposed on ___MASK31___ by force . At the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2013 , ___MASK31___ ' s Foreign Minister demanded the U . S . return the base and the " usurped territory ", which the Cuban government considers to be occupied since the U . S . invasion of ___MASK31___ during the Spanish  American War in 1898 . Military tactics are the science and art of organizing a military force , and the techniques for combining and using weapons and military units to engage and defeat an enemy in ___MASK42___ . Changes in philosophy and technology have been reflected in changes to military tactics . In contemporary military science , tactics are the lowest of three planning levels : ( i ) strategic , ( ii ) operational , and ( iii ) tactical . The highest level of planning is strategy : how force is translated into political objectives by bridging the means and ends of war . The intermediate level , operational , the conversion of strategy into tactics , deals with formations of units . In the vernacular , tactical decisions are those made to achieve the greatest immediate value ; strategic decisions are those made to achieve the greatest overall value , irrespective of the immediate results of a tactical decision . The Caribbean ( or ) is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea , its islands ( some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean ) and the surrounding coasts . The region is southeast of the Gulf of ___MASK44___ and the North American mainland , east of Central America , and north of South America . Kuwait ('), officially the State of Kuwait ('), is a country in Western Asia . Situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf , it shares borders with Iraq and ___MASK30___ . , Kuwait has a population of 4 . 2 million people ; 1 . 3 million are Kuwaitis and 2 . 9 million are expatriates . Expatriates account for 70 % of the population . ___MASK38___ ( Spanish for " land of flowers ") is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States . It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of ___MASK44___ , to the north by Alabama and Georgia , to the east by the Atlantic Ocean , and to the south by the Straits of ___MASK38___ and ___MASK31___ . ___MASK38___ is the 22nd most extensive , the 3rd most populous , and the 8th most densely populated of the U . S . states . Jacksonville is the most populous municipality in the state and is the largest city by area in the contiguous United States . The Miami metropolitan area is ___MASK38___ ' s most populous urban area . The city of Tallahassee is the state capital . ___MASK30___ , officially known as the Kingdom of ___MASK30___ ( KSA ), is an Arab sovereign state in Western Asia constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula . With a land area of approximately , ___MASK30___ is geographically the fifth - largest state in Asia and second - largest state in the Arab world after Algeria . ___MASK30___ is bordered by Jordan and Iraq to the north , Kuwait to the northeast , ___MASK15___ , Bahrain , and the United Arab Emirates to the east , ___MASK96___ to the southeast , and Yemen to the south . It is separated from ___MASK88___ and ___MASK2___ by the Gulf of Aqaba . It is the only nation with both a Red Sea coast and a Persian Gulf coast , and most of its terrain consists of arid desert or barren landforms . The ___MASK24___ is a United States military prison located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base , also referred to as Guantánamo or GTMO ( pronounced ' gitmo '), which fronts on Guantánamo Bay in Cuba . Since the inmates have been detained indefinitely without trial and several inmates were severely tortured , this camp is considered as a major breach of human rights by great parts of the world . The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere . It is bounded by ___MASK44___ and Central America to the west and south west , to the north by the Greater Antilles starting with ___MASK31___ , to the east by the Lesser Antilles , and to the south by the north coast of South America . ___MASK44___ (, modern Nahuatl ), officially the United Mexican States , is a federal republic in the southern half of North America . It is bordered to the north by the United States ; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean ; to the southeast by ___MASK94___ , Belize , and the Caribbean Sea ; and to the east by the Gulf of ___MASK44___ . Covering almost two million square kilometers ( over 760 , 000 sq mi ), ___MASK44___ is the sixth largest country in the Americas by total area and the 13th largest independent nation in the world . With an estimated population of over 120 million , it is the eleventh most populous country and the most populous Spanish - speaking country in the world while being the second most populous country in Latin America . ___MASK44___ is a federation comprising 31 states and a federal district that is also its capital and most populous city . Other metropolises include Guadalajara , Monterrey , Puebla , Toluca , Tijuana and León . Hispaniola ( Spanish : " La Española "; Latin : " Hispaniola "; Taíno : " Haiti ") is the 22nd - largest island in the world , located in the Caribbean island group , the Greater Antilles . It is the second largest island in the Caribbean after ___MASK31___ , and the tenth most populous island in the world . The Department of Defense ( DoD , USDOD , or DOD ) is an executive branch department of the federal government of the United States charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government concerned directly with national security and the United States Armed Forces . The Department is the largest employer in the world , with nearly 1 . 3 million active duty servicemen and women as of 2016 . Adding to its employees are over 801 , 000 National Guardsmen and Reservists from the four services , and over 740 , 000 civilians bringing the total to over 2 . 8 million employees . It is headquartered at the Pentagon in ___MASK69___ , Virginia , just outside of ___MASK12___ , D . C . The Gulf of ___MASK44___ is an ocean basin largely surrounded by the North American continent . It is bounded on the northeast , north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States , on the southwest and south by ___MASK44___ , and on the southeast by ___MASK31___ . The U . S . states of Alabama , Florida , ___MASK13___ , Mississippi and Texas border the Gulf on the north , which are often referred to as the " Third Coast " in comparison with the U . S . Atlantic and Pacific coasts , or sometimes the " south coast ", in juxtaposition to the Great Lakes region being the " north coast ." One of the gulf ' s seven main areas is the Gulf of ___MASK44___ basin . ___MASK47___ de ___MASK31___ is the second largest city of ___MASK31___ and capital city of ___MASK47___ de ___MASK31___ Province in the south - eastern area of the island , some south - east of the Cuban capital of Havana . The Persian Gulf is a mediterranean sea in Western Asia . The body of water is an extension of the Indian Ocean ( Gulf of ___MASK96___ ) through the Strait of Hormuz and lies between ___MASK27___ to the northeast and the Arabian Peninsula to the southwest . The Shatt al - Arab river delta forms the northwest shoreline .