Close Guantanamo...? Ok, but what about all the others...?

at least this terrible blot on our nation's integrity and respect for human rights is staying visible... i'm sure bushco would like nothing better than for it to fade away... and, once again, it's the foreign media that are front-paging the story... we're so pathetic...

UN human rights investigators have called for the immediate closure of the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay.

The UN report on conditions in the Cuba camp says the US should try all inmates or free them "without further delay".

Some aspects of the treatment of the 500-strong camp population amount to torture, the UN team alleges.

The US has rejected most of the allegations, saying that the five investigators never actually visited Guantanamo Bay.

It called the report's conclusions "largely without merit and not based clearly in the facts".

One of the five investigators responsible for the report, UN special rapporteur on torture Manfred Nowak, said that the detention of inmates for years without charge amounted to arbitrary detention.

"Those persons either have to be released immediately or they should be brought to a proper and competent court and tried for the offences they are charged with," he told the BBC.

Speaking in London before the release of the report, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said she could not endorse every recommendation made by the report - but that she could see little alternative to closing down the facility.

the u.s. can deny until hell freezes over but as long as things like the recently-released second wave of abu ghraib photos continue to trickle in, we haven't got a leg to stand on...

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