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US To Free Some Guantanamo Detainees
Source: CNNThe United States is close to moving some of its prisoners captured in the war on terror out of its detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he has given his approval to ending the detention of a "small group of prisoners" he said were no longer of interest to the United States. "It's true that the process is working, and that there are some people likely to come out the other end of the chute," he said. No sense in keeping them just for the sake of keeping them. Once their usefulness is gone, they can be discarded... Rumsfeld said prisoners are normally questioned first to determine if they could provide useful intelligence. If not, he said, they would then be in a "different basket," and their further detention would be based on whether they could be prosecuted as criminals or whether they posed a security risk and "should be kept off the street." If none of those conditions apply, Rumsfeld said, "then the goal is to not have them. Let's be rid of them." We'd expect that there would be a pretty low proportion of them in that bunch, though... Any of the detainees released would be handed to another government with prior consultation, he said. If the other governments wanted to keep the men in custody themselves, that would be their decision. If not, Rumsfeld said, the prisoners would be freed. "Get the hell out and don't come back..." Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-10-23 |
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