4-star sees difficulties in closing Gitmo

4-star sees difficulties in closing Gitmo
By David Stringer - The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Jan 29, 2009 15:09:48 EST

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — A senior U.S. general who once oversaw the Guantanamo Bay prison camp predicted Thursday that the U.S. will face problems closing it down — something President Barack Obama has ordered be done within a year.

Army Gen. John Craddock, who headed U.S. Southern Command from 2004-2006, said while attending a NATO conference that issues over where to send some of the remaining detainees need to be resolved and that doing so will be difficult.

Concerns have been heightened after a former Saudi detainee released from Guantanamo showed up in a video clip of al-Qaida militants in Yemen.

“I’m always concerned when bad people are released and show up again trying to kill either American or international forces. Obviously as a commander you want to protect the force,” Craddock, now NATO’s supreme allied commander for Europe, said during an interview.

Former Saudi detainee Abu al-Hareth Muhammad al-Oufi was seen last week in a newly released militant video.


Rest of article at: http://armytimes.com/news/2009/01/ap_craddock_guantanamo_012909/%2e

you want to protect the force? close it down and stop the rectuiting value, asshat