 AMMAN - The United NationsÂ’ investigator on torture said he believed the US Guantanamo Bay prison could be closed by the end of the year following a US court ruling striking down military tribunals created to try its prisoners. Manfred Nowak said a majority of the inmates, suspected by Washington of terrorist activity, could be repatriated or sent under a UN monitored system to member states in the EU and countries like Chile and Argentina that accept refugees.
| Oh sure, the Argies will be more than happy to draw attention to themselves. And the only ones the Chinese want are their own western Muslims. |
“In my opinion it’s fair to now call for a plan of action. It might be under UN mediation where EU countries and others countries of origin could take up the majority who have no indictments,” he said.
| He's delusional of course. |
“It will speed up the closing of Guantanamo Bay by year end,” Nowak, the special rapporteur of the UN Commission on Human Rights on torture told Reuters in a weekend interview in Amman.
| By year's end we'll have converted our old weather facility at Ice Station Zebra to house the thugs. |
A minority estimated between 5 to 10 percent of the existing 460 inmates with enough evidence to indict them should face ordinary criminal tribunals but not military tribunals in the United States, he added.
| Because it would only take 5 to 10 percent of them to tie our legal system in knots. |
Nowak who was on a recent visit to Washington said efforts were being stepped up by EU member states to help the US administration to close the facility, housing largely inmates captured in Afghanistan. “I see many negotiations that are going on, silent diplomacy. I know that,” said Nowak. |