Close Guantánamo, and its mindset

George W Bush said on 14 June 2006 that he'd like to close the Guantánamo Bay detention centre, "but I also recognise that we're holding some people there that are darn dangerous, and that we better have a plan to deal with them in our courts."

Well, most of the world, and many Americans, also believe that there are some "darn dangerous" people running the White House these days, which is why Guantánamo is in the news again. Any day now the United States Supreme Court is expected to deliver its verdict in a case raised by Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni national who has been held at Guantánamo along with another 460 detainees. Hamdan is challenging the constitutionality of the American military "commissions", or special courts, that were established to try him and other "unlawful combatants".

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