WASHINGTON, - Closing Guantanamo prison continues to be a never-ending nightmare for the United States President Barack Obama. A year after he promises to close the prison at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba that led to the controversy, Obama just lost not only the deadline of her own making.
His hands were shackled by the complexity of political, legal and humanitarian inherited his predecessor, George W. Bush. Dan Fried, a special envoy in charge of closing the prison, went to the fact that although many countries visited, only a few are willing to accept the Guantanamo detainees. "Anything associated with Guantanamo difficult," he said Wednesday (27/1/2010) ago.
Fried estimates that inhabited prison hundreds of people who thought the U.S. was involved in acts of terrorism will close in the first period ended Obama administration in January 2013. Given deadlines Fried was far below the limit of time that Obama himself has promised, that is, January 22, 2010.
More than half of the 192 people who are still languishing in Guantanamo prison was scheduled to be released into direpatriasi and third countries. They are detained in prison were not only those who claimed to be a brain 11 September 2001 incident, but also the victims of the U.S. catch.
Since its opening in 2002 following the statement "the war against terrorism" George W. Bush, an effort to close the Guantanamo prison face many obstacles. Among the obstacles are political attacks against the plan of housing the prisoners in the U.S. Guantanamo and Al-Qaeda influence in the countries of origin of the prisoners to be freed.
Field Advisory Counter-Terrorism "Human Rights Watch", Stacy Sullivan, including a pessimist on the implementation of Obama's promise to close Guantanamo prison in the near future. "I can not say that Guantanamo will not close but I do not see it happening the next two years," he said.
The same view was also expressed by John Bellinger, a former adviser to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Political Calculations
According to Bellinger, President Obama can not close the Guantanamo prison this year. "Even three years was not," he said.
"Politically, the Democratic majority might not choose to move Guantanamo's detainees to the U.S. in election year. Kubu even that Democrats may not want to do it," said Bellinger.
In the election last November broke, Democrats suffered defeat. Last June the U.S. Congress itself has passed a law that prevents the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to the United States, except those who will be judged.
The U.S. government has delivered a desire to purchase a federal prison in Illinois in order to accommodate about 50 prisoners who are dangerous if released or which can not be tried in the U.S. court system because of lack of legal evidence. Last week, dozens of veterans of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan also wrote to President Obama.
They support the government to stop sending inmates Yemen to the Arabian Peninsula country's action plan following a failed bombing aircraft on the last Christmas holidays. Suspect the culprit was a Nigerian citizen who allegedly trained personnel Yemeni branch of Al Qaeda.
"We are ready to support you in when you attempt to close the Guantanamo prison and prosecute terrorist suspects in court." "Thus, Americans will be safer in the battle, in the air and our own land," say the veterans in his letter.
