This just in: Jimmy Carter Asks Washington to Close Guantanamo Prison
http://www.ahora.cu/english/SECTIONS/national/2005/Junio/09-06-05c.htm But full text here: Former US President Jimmy Carter called on the Bush administration to close the prison at the US naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba in order to end "the terrible embarrassment and a blow to [the US's] reputation." In recent statements from a two-day human rights conference in Atlanta, Carter said that the current US administration is continuing to discredit itself in light of ongoing reports of offenses against prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo. The US Nobel Peace laureate said that the Washington must inform the detainees of the charges against them, and that no inmate should be held incommunicado. Carter's demand joined others, such as the appeal made by US Senator Joseph Biden, the highest ranking Democrat on the Senate's Foreign Affairs Committee. Biden demanded the shutting down of the Guantanamo prison last week. In statements to the ABC television network, the senator described the prison at the illegally occupied base in Cuba as "shameful." Previously The New York Times had suggested that President Bush shut down the detention center, where some 540 persons are being held with no access to legal counsel. In its editorial, the US newspaper pointed out that many international organizations have criticized the Bush administration for torture inflicted on inmates and for desecrating Islam's sacred Koran. (From AIN) Dave _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
