US close to shutting Guantanamo

US close to shutting Guantanamo
# 22 June 2007 09:58 (UTC +04:00)
The Bush administration is nearing a decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detainee facility and move its terror suspects to military prisons elsewhere, APA reports.
President Bush’s national security and legal advisers will debate on the suspension of Guantanamo today. US Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff, National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Peter Pace will attend the debate. Several hundreds of detainees from Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Afghanistan are kept in Guantanamo Bay at present. They are accused of cooperating with “Al-Kaida” terrorist organization and “Taliban” movement. But they have not been sued though 4 years passed. Influential human rights protection organizations state that detainees in Guantanamo were undergoing torture constantly. /APA/
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THE OPERATION IS BEING PERFORMED