Monday, April 13, 2009

Very Bad News: Afghanistan's Bagram Air Base Will Be Obama's Guantanamo

"Less than a month after signing an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, President Barack Obama has quietly agreed to keep denying the right to trial to hundreds more terror suspects held at a makeshift camp in Afghanistan that human rights lawyers have dubbed 'Obama's Guantanamo.'"

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"Tina Foster, executive director of the International Justice Network, the New York human rights organisation representing the detainees, warned last night that 'by leaving Bagram open, the administration turns the closure of Guantanamo into essentially a hollow and symbolic gesture.'"