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US to release 20 inmates from Guantanamo in a week
Madrid, Nov 22: The United States will release around 20 of the 650-odd prisoners being held in Guantanamo in the coming week, the US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes, Pierre-Richard Prosper, was quoted today as telling the Spanish media.
Madrid, Nov 22: The United States will release
around 20 of the 650-odd prisoners being held in Guantanamo in
the coming week, the US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes,
Pierre-Richard Prosper, was quoted today as telling the
Spanish media.
"We have already freed 64 prisoners who were not a
threat and next week, we will release about 20," of four
unspecified nationalities, prosper told reporters late
yesterday during a visit to Madrid to discuss the sole Spanish
prisoner being held at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay.
He said the United States had three options with regard to the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.
"The first is that if we consider prisoners no long present any danger to security, we will free them, the second is that those who represent a medium risk can be sent back to their countries of origin to be charged, and the third is those at high risk, whom the United States must hold on to and judge," Prosper said.
"In the near future, several dozen others will be sent back to their countries of origin to be judged" after agreement with their respective governments, he said, without giving details.
He said it would be a "long process" because "we will have to investigate more than 600 detainees. We do not want to let someone go who the day after goes and hijacks a plane to crash it."
Bureau Report
He said the United States had three options with regard to the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.
"The first is that if we consider prisoners no long present any danger to security, we will free them, the second is that those who represent a medium risk can be sent back to their countries of origin to be charged, and the third is those at high risk, whom the United States must hold on to and judge," Prosper said.
"In the near future, several dozen others will be sent back to their countries of origin to be judged" after agreement with their respective governments, he said, without giving details.
He said it would be a "long process" because "we will have to investigate more than 600 detainees. We do not want to let someone go who the day after goes and hijacks a plane to crash it."
Bureau Report