The U.S. president, Barack Obama, has ordered a resumption of military commissions to inmates at the Guantanamo detention center, which he stopped in 2009, waiting to dismantle the prison and extradited or transferred to other prisons detainees. Close Guantánamo, a prison opened in 2002 and highly controversial because of the conditions in which there was the accused, was one of Obama's campaign promises that the new decree admits the impossibility of happens in the short term, although maintains its intention to do so during his tenure.
"From the beginning of my administration, the U.S. has worked to make the terrorists responsible to justice in accordance with our commitment to protect American citizens and preserve their values," the president said in a statement. "Today, I announce a series of measures to bring terrorists to justice, our actions give a framework to monitor and ensure that detainees are treated with dignity.
I firmly believe that the American system of justice is a crucial part of our arsenal in the war against Al Qaeda and its affiliates. " In the coming days, the Army will begin to file new charges against some of the 172 prisoners who remain in prison, according to an announcement the White House.
The new military commissions will be conducted under new regulatory frameworks approved by President Obama: Do not admit confessions obtained through methods that could be considered torture and prisoners have access, for the first time, the charges and evidence presented against them .
Since the advent of Obama to the Oval Office, in addition, the Army has examined one by one, the cases of those prisoners against whom no formal charges had been filed but remained in detention. Some 50 prisoners are detained indefinitely. Such cases are reviewed every six months, if the Army's lawyers found evidence that exonerated prisoners.
Meanwhile, prisoners remain under military custody in Guantanamo or other prison. To be released, "the State and Defense Departments should identify a suitable place outside the U.S. where to transfer the prisoners, according to the national security and U.S. foreign policy," explained a senior White House official .
In any case, prisoners will be released on U.S. soil. "The president has pledged to close Guantanamo because it is a center that matches our values and that is really positive for our security," said one government official in a conference call. "Several national security experts and military commanders agree favors the long term, the recruitment of militants to Al Qaeda.
The president's commitment remains intact. "Indeed, a day after he was sworn into office on January 22, 2009, Obama signed an executive order ordering the closure of the prison, located on the island of Cuba in within one year. Then he ordered an injunction freezing of military trials for those whom he considered enemy combatants.
Among the prisoners are five coordinators of the 11-S, including the brain, Saijo Khalid Mohamed. Washington left a prison outside the Geneva Convention, which protects prisoners of war, and denied the guarantee of habeas corpus, right to trial, the prisoners who remained oblivious to the world and outside the country.
Obama has faced three major problems in order to close the detention camp: the fact that many foreign countries have evaded host inmates captured in Afghanistan, the refusal to accept American States in its prisons, and the doubts of civil judicial system to judge how these inmates, many of whose confessions were obtained with methods that under U.S.
law would be considered torture. 
"From the beginning of my administration, the U.S. has worked to make the terrorists responsible to justice in accordance with our commitment to protect American citizens and preserve their values," the president said in a statement. "Today, I announce a series of measures to bring terrorists to justice, our actions give a framework to monitor and ensure that detainees are treated with dignity.
I firmly believe that the American system of justice is a crucial part of our arsenal in the war against Al Qaeda and its affiliates. " In the coming days, the Army will begin to file new charges against some of the 172 prisoners who remain in prison, according to an announcement the White House.
The new military commissions will be conducted under new regulatory frameworks approved by President Obama: Do not admit confessions obtained through methods that could be considered torture and prisoners have access, for the first time, the charges and evidence presented against them .
Since the advent of Obama to the Oval Office, in addition, the Army has examined one by one, the cases of those prisoners against whom no formal charges had been filed but remained in detention. Some 50 prisoners are detained indefinitely. Such cases are reviewed every six months, if the Army's lawyers found evidence that exonerated prisoners.
Meanwhile, prisoners remain under military custody in Guantanamo or other prison. To be released, "the State and Defense Departments should identify a suitable place outside the U.S. where to transfer the prisoners, according to the national security and U.S. foreign policy," explained a senior White House official .
In any case, prisoners will be released on U.S. soil. "The president has pledged to close Guantanamo because it is a center that matches our values and that is really positive for our security," said one government official in a conference call. "Several national security experts and military commanders agree favors the long term, the recruitment of militants to Al Qaeda.
The president's commitment remains intact. "Indeed, a day after he was sworn into office on January 22, 2009, Obama signed an executive order ordering the closure of the prison, located on the island of Cuba in within one year. Then he ordered an injunction freezing of military trials for those whom he considered enemy combatants.
Among the prisoners are five coordinators of the 11-S, including the brain, Saijo Khalid Mohamed. Washington left a prison outside the Geneva Convention, which protects prisoners of war, and denied the guarantee of habeas corpus, right to trial, the prisoners who remained oblivious to the world and outside the country.
Obama has faced three major problems in order to close the detention camp: the fact that many foreign countries have evaded host inmates captured in Afghanistan, the refusal to accept American States in its prisons, and the doubts of civil judicial system to judge how these inmates, many of whose confessions were obtained with methods that under U.S.
law would be considered torture.
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