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Renewed calls to bring inmates
to trial or close down the camp
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Denmark, Sweden joins calls to
shut Guantanamo
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Bush says he wants the camp
emptied
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The coordinated suicide deaths of the three suspected terrorists in Guantanamo
have invited even the closest allies to criticize the US and question its
methodology in fighting terror. The US line is that those belonging to the al
Qaeda “don't value their own lives, and they certainly don't value ours and
they use suicide bombings as a tactic” and that this is some sort of
“asymmetrical warfare” and is a “good PR move.”
Most Governments, including those who are closest to the US are not buying
that argument and are renewing their calls along with human rights
organizations to bring the 460 inmates to trial, or close the camp down.
Danish Prime Minister and staunch US ally on Iraq Anders Fogh Rasmussen
talking to CNN said “I think it would be to the benefit of our cause and our
fight for freedom and for democracy if the facilities at Guantanamo were closed
down.”
Swedish Foreign Minister Jan Eliasson voiced concerns about the lack of due
process in Guantanamo. Muslim Council of Britain deplored the ``incredibly
insensitive and callous'' comments and is lobbying with lawmakers to increase
pressure on an embattled Prime Minister Tony Blair.
President George Bush himself said he would like to see the camp emptied said
that he had “serious concern” about the suicides.
The European Union’s Human Rights watchdog Council of Europe had embarrassed
several European nations for participating in the US Central Intelligence
Agency’s
Web of Terror.
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