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Top US officer wants Guantanamo shut down
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Top US officer wants Guantanamo shut down
The top US military officer said on the day before he would like to see the detention center at Guantanamo Bay closed because its image has damaged America?s international standing. ?I?d like to see it shut down,? said Adm. Mike Mullen. ?I believe that from the standpoint of how it reflects on us that it?s been pretty damaging.?
But Mullen, the chairman of the US military?s Joint Chiefs of Staff, said closing the prison posed major legal problems. ?There are enormous challenges associated with that,? he said. ?There are enormously complex, complicating legal issues that are way out of my purview.?
Many governments, including close US allies, have urged Washington to shut the detention center for terrorism suspects, which took in its first inmates almost exactly six years ago. Since then, only one prisoner has been convicted through the system of war crimes tribunals set up to try Guantanamo inmates, and that was the result of a plea bargain.
President George W. Bush and other top US officials have said they would like to close the camp but only when they have found a satisfactory way to do so.
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