It is inevitable this would happen, but what I am surprised about is why did they take so long considering it only brought negativity on both the world and local stage?
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U.S. CONSIDERING CLOSING GUANTANAMO BAY PRISON: SOURCES The American government is nearing a decision to close the controversial U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and move the detainees to other jails, the Associated Press reports. Ref. https://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/200...namo-talks.html |
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JB, the ONLY reason they are doing it is because the international pressure is overwhelming and they cannot take it no more. The reports of abuse are also too much.
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Personally, I don't see how changing the location of the "detainees" will change the fact that they are continuing to be held without any decision being made to their status. Interesting to see how they will be moved, and to where, and for how long.
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DOCTORS BLAST GUANTANAMO TREATMENT AS UNETHICAL
Military doctors violate medical ethics when they approve the force-feeding of hunger strikers at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, according to a commentary in a prestigious medical journal.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/07/31/jama....o.ap/index.html
CANADA REFUSED U.S. REQUESTS TO ACCEPT GUANTANAMO DETAINEES, DOCUMENTS SAY
The Canadian government balked at several requests from Washington to provide asylum to men cleared for release from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, say newly released documents.
Ref. https://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/20...ees-canada.html
Okay, make sense of this one. A medical doctor violates his ethics by helping to force feed a prisoner who refuses to eat?
The purpose of this act is to save the prisoner's life (and not let him kill himself). So how is that a violation of ethics?
Now that Canada doesn't want its citizens from Gitmo, what do we do with them? Send them to Iraq?
Are the Military courts held at Guantanamo "constitutional"? The Supreme Court will decide.
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WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing Wednesday a case that many consider to be the most important the court will hear this session - whether the military courts set up for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are constitutional. If it sounds familiar, it is. This is the third time the Supreme Court will consider the rights of the detainees, but expectations are high that the court's opinion in this case will offer a definitive ruling on what legal protections those prisoners are afforded. It is also viewed as a fundamental legal test of the Bush administration's prosecution of the War on Terror. The case revolves around Lakhdar Boumediene, one of the remaining 305 War on Terror prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. He's been there since 2002 and lawyers on his behalf say he and the others at the highly controversial prison camp are being unconstitutionally denied access to the U.S. court system. The case is built on previous rulings by the court, including a 2004 decision in Rasul v. Bush that stated the prisoners at Gitmo are entitled to have access to the U.S. court system, leading the U.S. government to establish a military tribunal process. As it stands, the prisoners can appeal adverse rulings to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Solicitor General Paul Clement argues that the existing process provides Boumediene "along with the other enemy combatants being held at Guantanamo Bay, [the opportunity to] enjoy more procedural protections than any other captured enemy combatants in the history of warfare." |
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Guantanamo Bay will be shut down soon and most of the so-called terrorists held there will be released withhout charge. This whole political stunt has gone terribly wrong and will only survive as long as the stubborn Bush regime is in power.
Soon they will shut it down and the innocents who were locked up illegally for no reason will be left to pick up the pieces. It wouldn't surprise me if some of these people do end up becoming bitter terrorists after having their lives robbed in such a terrible way. If they were ever guilty of anything they would have been tried by now.
This disgusting example of inhumanity is one of the biggest stains on the current US Government. It hasn't stopped terrorism and can only be viewed by extremists as another reason to hate Western power.
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