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Even Colin Powell Says Close Guantanamo Prison

WASHINGTON, June 10, 2007.- The US detention center in Guantanamo, Cuba, should close immediately and the prisoners transferred to the United States for trial, former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday, as reported by ANSA.

The former senior Pentagon official also said that the jail, on the base located on illegally occupied Cuban territory, has become "an enormous problem" for the image of United States internationally.

"If it was up to me, I would close Guantánamo not tomorrow but this afternoon," Powell told NBC.

"Essentially, it has shaken the belief the world had in the American justice system by keeping a place like Guantánamo open and creating things like the military commissions. We don't need it and it is creating far more damage than any good we get from it," Powell concluded. (Cubaminrex-Granma)

 

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