Guantanamo will close when Bush goes-lawyer

A leading human rights lawyer said he expected Guantanamo Bay prison to close when US President George W Bush leaves office, but points out there are still 14,000 prisoners held by the United States in secret jails around the world.

'Guantanamo has achieved a huge amount -- all bad', said Clive Stafford Smith who criss-crosses the Atlantic trying to liberate detainees from the US prison on Cuba.

He says cooks, shopkeepers and television cameramen were tortured into admitting they worked for Osama bin Laden.

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"Just looking at the raw numbers, of the admitted prisoners in secret American custody today, Guantanamo represents just 2.7 percent. There are 14,000 in different prisons around the world," he said.


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they might even feel relieved

But all the while people are being illegally detained and tortured...and Bush.is.still.free.

And some will even comfort themselves with - that's the best we can do

Imagine that - the best America can do about a war criminal President is to wait until the war criminal leaves office - and allow people to be tortured - even die - while America waits