9.21.2011

Minister of Justice and the U.S.: Washington want to close Guantanamo Bay before the 2012 election

The Minister of Justice Eric Holder, The Americas on Tuesday, the U.S. government is "determined" to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility before the presidential election in November 2012, even if it is part of the U.S. Congress rejects it.
He said after the hearing before the Commission of the European Parliament in Brussels "style Afaúnaalawrobien, we consider that closing Guantanamo would be a good thing."
He added that the U.S. government "is determined to close Guantanamo as soon as," explaining that he could not close the prison before the presidential election, and if this proved to be impossible, the U.S. government will try to close the prison after the election in case of re-election of Barack Obama. Having said that Obama has made closing the prison, "one of the first priorities" in the beginning of his term in December / January 2009, acknowledged that this project has raised "widespread domestic opposition," but he corrected, "We still intend to close Guantanamo." and is now detained at Guantanamo, which opened in January 2002 , to imprison suspected of terrorism to their practice, a symbol of the excessive practices in the "war on terror" during the era of former President George Bush.
For financial reasons, to prevent the U.S. Congress, closing the prison refused to allocate funds for the transfer of detainees at Guantanamo Bay from the island of Cuba into the U.S. territory, or other countries

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