Guantanamo should shut, says Bush
By Tom Baldwin
IMPRISONING terror suspects without trial at Guantanamo Bay provides ammunition to those who accuse the US of not upholding the values it encourages elsewhere, President Bush admitted yesterday.
He reiterated that his Administration wanted to close the detention camp where three inmates committed suicide this week, but added: “We’re holding some people that are darn dangerous.”
The President has faced growing pressure from other countries, including Britain, to shut down the prison at a US military base in Cuba where hundreds of suspects have been held for up to four years. He is now waiting for a Supreme Court ruling on the legality of the special military tribunals where he hopes to prosecute the inmates.
Mr Bush said: “No question Guantanamo sends a signal to some of our friends . . . my answer to them is that we are a nation of laws and rule of law. Eventually these people will have trials, and they will have counsel, and they will be represented in the court of law.”
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About time, eh chico?
By Tom Baldwin
IMPRISONING terror suspects without trial at Guantanamo Bay provides ammunition to those who accuse the US of not upholding the values it encourages elsewhere, President Bush admitted yesterday.
He reiterated that his Administration wanted to close the detention camp where three inmates committed suicide this week, but added: “We’re holding some people that are darn dangerous.”
The President has faced growing pressure from other countries, including Britain, to shut down the prison at a US military base in Cuba where hundreds of suspects have been held for up to four years. He is now waiting for a Supreme Court ruling on the legality of the special military tribunals where he hopes to prosecute the inmates.
Mr Bush said: “No question Guantanamo sends a signal to some of our friends . . . my answer to them is that we are a nation of laws and rule of law. Eventually these people will have trials, and they will have counsel, and they will be represented in the court of law.”
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About time, eh chico?
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