Top Democrat calls for closure of Guantanamo Bay prison
The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee urged the Bush administration Sunday to close a terrorist prison at Guantan-amo Bay, Cuba, calling it more trouble than it was worth.
"I think we should end up shutting it down, moving those prisoners," Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware said as he appeared on ABC's "This Week" programme.
He said inmates who still have intelligence value should be moved to other locations, but the rest should be sent back to their home countries.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. The detention centre at a US naval base in Guantanamo Bay was set up in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks for terrorism suspects captured in Afghan-istan and other parts of the world. About 550 detainees have been held there on average since the beginning of the war on terror.
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