Washington - In the United States to keep open Guantanamo Bay military prison was "contrary to our values," US President Barack Obama said Tuesday he released 13 review sites for the transfer of terrorist suspects, but did not put forward any specific plan position.
His plans to build about eight years ago with
the promise of the Congress election campaign last year confrontation.
Guantanamo terrorists propaganda to recruit and keep it jeopardize US national
security, he said.
The program has three elements beyond the
prison closed, Obama said. More detainees will be safely transferred to examine
detainees who are not eligible to transfer threats caused and identify those
that
meet military trials.
"This plan has my
full support," Obama said.
Obama said the Guantanamo prison is a closed
his Republican predecessor George · W · Bush supports, like his 2008 challenge
to Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain. Since then, however, politics is on the
road, he said.
Obama said he was "very clear eyes"
challenge on the closure of the Guantanamo prison. "If it was easy it
would have occurred years ago," he said.
Military guards exit an area known as
McCain,
who now hosts the Military Committee, called the plan untenable, said his
committee will hold hearings soon it.
"We
received today is a menu of options vague instead of closing Guantanamo a
credible plan, let alone a coherent policy to deal with future terrorist
detainees," McCain said in a statement. "After years of rhetoric, the
president still did not say how and where he will accommodate current and future
detainees, including his government deemed too dangerous to release."
McCain
said Obama has missed "a major opportunity to convince Congress and he has
a responsible plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center in the American
people's."
The
plan under consideration does not mean that the transfer of detainees in US
prisons, the Pentagon press secretary, Peter Cook said in a statement.
"The
government attempted to active dialogue with the Congress on this issue, and
look forward to working with Congress to determine the most appropriate
location as soon as possible," Cook said.
The
report looked at the country's military bases on condition of anonymity in
South Carolina, the existing facilities in Kansas and Colorado, as well as new
facilities.
It will
cost $ 2.9 million to $ 47.5 billion Department of Defense renovation of
existing state or federal prison, which will be dedicated to holding only the
defense of detainees, the official said. But the Pentagon could save an
estimated $ 65 million a year to recover the $ 85 million one-time charge of
about five years, but the official said the figure was "a bit rough,
nominal" because Congress did not allocate the money necessary to do a
complete site evaluation.
White House press secretary
Josh seriously said on Monday that the Pentagon's report "makes a
compelling reason to close the prison is clearly in our national security
interests, but also will reflect the needs of the US government are good
stewards of the taxpayers' money."There are 91 detainees remain
in prison; everyone's costs more than $ 3 million per year.
"There is too much money
to spend when there is more cost-effective alternatives available to operate
the prison. We certainly look forward to working with Congress to make these
alternatives become a reality, because we know that these alternatives will not
weaken our country security. In fact, they stepped up. they improved, "he
says earnestly. "It will take away - by close Guantanamo prison - the
chief recruiting tool, we know about the world used by terrorist
organizations.
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is not Obama's agenda
The announcement of the morning, is expected to detainees "limited number" will not be eligible for transfer to other countries
"For these detainees, the Government intends to work with Congress, from Guantanamo Bay detention facility relocate their proper place in the continental United States, while continuing to look for other appropriate legal disposal" of the plan said.
Guantanamo Bay, located on the eastern edge of Cuba, has been taken under the 113-year-old lease from 2002 prisoners housed prisoners of the war on terror because of its presence on Cuban soil based on, but the prisoners held by the US What are some human rights groups say as a "legal black hole."
But they moved to the US soil will not necessarily change their legal status. Pentagon previous legal opinion found that the 2001 legislation authorizing the global war on terrorism so long as they fight to keep hold of hostilities.
In the 242 Guantanamo detainees still after Obama took office in 2009, down nearly 700 from this figure decreasing the Pentagon has been transferred to lower high-risk detainees to other countries - which means that prisoners who still prefer It is considered a higher security risk.
The remaining 91 detainees, 35 are qualified, as long as these countries can prove that there is no risk that they can accommodate the prisoners were transferred to other countries. Another 10 are awaiting trial by a military court, and 46 still in the evaluation stage.
Obama: "We have to change course," the Guantanamo
Existing law transferring Guantanamo detaineesto American soil, only a maximum-security prison where they deem appropriate house prohibited president. Congress also added a provision to Obama signed last year asked the Government to put forward a plan to the rest of the detainees were transferred to the jail in the US defense policy bill.House Speaker Paul Ryan dismissed the plan, saying it did not make a convincing case that moving detainees to the United States was "smart or safe." The plan did not provide details required by law about the cost and location of the U.S. prison.
"Congress has left no room for confusion," Ryan said in a statement. "It is against the law — and it will stay against the law — to transfer terrorist detainees to American soil. We will not jeopardize our national security over a campaign promise.”
Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, the top Democrat in the House, called the administration's proposal a "strong, detailed plan" to close Guantanamo.
“The reality is Guantanamo hurts, rather than advances our efforts to keep America safe and combat terrorism abroad," Pelosi said in a statement. "Closing the detention facility at Guantanamo will strengthen our national security and affirm our values and laws. It is disappointing that Republicans have worked to prevent the long-overdue closure of the Guantanamo facility."
