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Powell : Guantanamo étroit
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L'ancien secrétaire d'état des USA Colin Powell a dit dimanche où la prison militaire au compartiment de Guantanamo pour les suspects étrangers de terrorisme devrait être immédiatement fermée et ses détenus déplacée aux Etats-Unis.
Powell, qui dans un discours 2003 au Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU a fait le point de droit pour la guerre contre l'Irak pour les armes de possession de la destruction de masse qui n'ont été jamais trouvées, a indiqué que la prison controversée au Cuba était devenue à l'étranger « un problème principal » image pour Etats-Unis' et avait fait plus de mal que bonne.
“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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