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Powell: Dicht Guantanamo
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De vroegere Staatssecretaris Colin Powell van de V.S. zei op Zondag de militaire gevangenis bij de Baai van Guantanamo voor buitenlandse terrorismeverdachten onmiddellijk zou moeten worden gesloten en zijn medebewoners naar de Verenigde Staten verplaatst.
Powell, die in een toespraak van 2003 aan de Veiligheidsraad van de V.N. Het geval voor oorlog tegen Irak voor het bezitten van wapens van massavernietiging maakte die nooit werden gevonden, zei de controversiële gevangenis in Cuba een „belangrijk probleem“ voor het beeld van Verenigde Staten in het buitenland was geworden en meer kwaad dan goed gedaan.
“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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