""We hung out with the guys from the East Coast and they showed us the boat inside and out, how they work and what they do, we took a ride around the land and it was a loooot of fun!
"We also met the Military dogs, and they did a very nice demonstration of their skills. All the guys from the Army were amazing with us.
"We visited the Detainees camps and we saw the jails, where they shower, how they recreate themselves with movies, classes of art, books. It was very interesting."
She goes on to extol the virtues of the water around the bay - "soooo beautiful!" - and ends her entry: "I didn't want to leave, it was such a relaxing place, so calm and beautiful." "
To the BBC, Guantanamo Bay is evil, a symbol of all that is wrong with the USA and "the West" and a cause of Islamic terrorism, so the report is aggressive and mocking - is it normal BBC practice to draw out the vowel sounds in written reporting like this: "a loooot of fun!" and "soooo beautiful!"?
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