WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush said on Thursday that shutting down the US “war on terror’ prison camp at Guantanamo Bay was not easy, but US officials were working to make it happen. He said the task of closing the camp was complicated because inmates’ home nations did not necessarily want them back, and noted delays in setting up trials for those who were incarcerated.| Not want them back? But they're innocent, solid citizens, Dick Durbin sez so! |
The president, in a White House news conference before heading to his summer vacation, said the sooner that tribunals could start for inmates of the camp “the better it is.” “It’s not as easy a subject as some may think on the surface.”