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Lifestyle => Train of Thought => Topic started by: Don Rizzle on June 06, 2005, 04:22:45 AM
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Senator urges Guantanamo closure
A leading senator and member of the Foreign Relations Committee has said that the US should close its detention centre at Guantanamo Bay.
Democrat Joseph Biden said the controversy over the military camp put Americans at risk from terrorism rather than protecting them from it.
He said the future of the centre needed to be examined.
Hundreds of alleged terrorism suspects have been held at the camp without charge for up to three years.
Independent commission
Guantanamo "has become the greatest propaganda tool that exists for recruiting of terrorists around the world and it is unnecessary to be in that position", Mr Biden said.
"We should end up shutting it down, moving those prisoners," he told ABC's This Week programme.
"Those that we have reason to keep, keep. And those we don't, let go."
An independent commission should examine all the prisons in which the US detains those it deems terrorist suspects, he said.
The comments came two days after the Pentagon admitted that guards at Guantanamo Bay had desecrated the Koran.
Last month, Amnesty International called the detention centre for alleged terrorists "the gulag of our time", referring to the system of forced labour camps in the Soviet Union in which millions of prisoners died.
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the charge was "reprehensible".
Senator Biden, as a member of the opposition, can have only a limited impact on policy, says the BBC's Adam Brookes in Washington.
But his words reflect an anxious debate here about the treatment of detainees and how it reflects on America's image in the world, our correspondent says.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/americas/4612427.stm
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There is nothing wrong about the Guatanamo prison in my opinion, but he is definitly right about it being used to whip up anti American sentiment among Muslims. The day the story about the Koran being flushed down the toilet broke, there was 5 different stories about it on the front of Al-Jazeera English language website. Talk about overkill.
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You have no opinion, stupid hick.
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You have no opinion, stupid hick.
actually wasn't that his opinion?
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Im completly against guantanamo bay prison. However because of bush, i dont think it will ever close as long as he's president.
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You have no opinion, stupid hick.
actually wasn't that his opinion?
He's a bush clone.
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^^^
That's a good cd
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so where should we keep prisoners of war? someplace else and then we can close that place?
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normally whats supposed to happen is POW's don't leave their country and they get released when the war is over.
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normally whats supposed to happen is POW's don't leave their country and they get released when the war is over.
The people held at Guantanomo Bay weren't soldiers fighting for their country (in this case Afghanistan). They are Al-Queda terrorists.
Seriously, what is so bad about Guantanamo Bay?
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Actually monkey they were, u may crawl back in the corner now
dont forget your Dunce cap
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normally whats supposed to happen is POW's don't leave their country and they get released when the war is over.
The people held at Guantanomo Bay weren't soldiers fighting for their country (in this case Afghanistan). They are Al-Queda terrorists.
Seriously, what is so bad about Guantanamo Bay?
agreed, but shadyguru called them prisioners of war who are protected by the geneva convention, merceneries, geurilla groups who don't identify themselves and groups who target civillians are not protected by the geneva convention which is why america justifies torture there. but the bigger issue is they are being held without charge and setting a bad example to the rest of the world.