Closing Guantánamo: Will Europeans take detainees?

Christian Science Monitor by Robert Marquand | Jan. 23, 2009 (News Analysis)

On no single issue has Europe been more in disagreement with America than the Guantánamo detention center. The camp was a focus of anti-US protest here, synonymous with the image of a bullying world power using torture to obtain confessions from terror suspects.

The European Union collectively called for closing "Gitmo." Now, Barack Obama, who is deeply admired in Europe, has ordered Gitmo trials to be halted, and signed an executive order ... Full Story »

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Subjects: World, U.S., Politics
Topics: Torture, Europe, Foreign Policy, Obama Administration
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Posted by: Posted by Derek Hawkins - Jan 23, 2009 - 12:06 AM PST
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