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Powell: Guantánamo cercana
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La secretaria anterior de los E.E.U.U. del estado Colin Powell dijo el domingo que la prisión militar en la bahía de Guantánamo para los sospechosos extranjeros del terrorismo debe ser inmediatamente cerrada y sus internos movida a los Estados Unidos.
Powell, que en un discurso 2003 al consejo de seguridad de la O.N.U hizo el caso para la guerra contra Iraq para las armas que poseían de la destrucción total que nunca fueron encontradas, dijo que la prisión polémica en Cuba se había convertido en un “problema importante” para imagen de los Estados Unidos' al exterior y que había hecho más daño que buena.
“Guantanamo has become a major, major problem … in the way the world perceives America and if it were up to me I would close Guantanamo not tomorrow but this afternoon … and I would not let any of those people go. I would simply move them to the United States and put them into our federal legal system,” Powell told NBC’s Meet the Press.
“Essentially, we have shaken the belief the world had in America’s justice system by keeping a place like Guantanamo open and creating things like the military commission. We don’t need it and it is causing us far more damage than any good we get for it,” he added.
The United States is holding about 380 foreign terrorism suspects at Guantanamo.
Rights groups and foreign governments have called for the prison to be closed, saying holding prisoners there for years without trial violated legal standards. But Washington says the prison is legal and necessary to hold dangerous individuals.
“I would get rid of Guantanamo and the military commission system and use established procedures in federal law,” Powell said, saying some leaders around the world were using Guantanamo to hide their own misdeeds.
“It’s a more equitable way, and more understandable in constitutional terms,” he added.
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