Guantanamo: where do we go from here? President Obama has pledged to close the infamous Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Still to be decided is how the US justice system will deal with the inmates and the international repercussions--a legacy of the dubious integrity of the George Bush regime. Milan Vesely reports from the United States.

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Guantanamo: where do we go from here? President Obama has pledged to close the infamous Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Still to be decided is how the US justice system will deal with the inmates and the international repercussions--a legacy of the dubious integrity of the George Bush regime. Milan Vesely reports from the United States.

IN ONE YEAR Guantanamo Bay will be no more--the ironically named "Camp Justice" detention section of this American military base on the island of Cuba, a black stain on American jurisprudence. Also gone will be the secret CIA prisons in which hard-core Al Qaeda terrorists such as Khalid Sheik Mohammed were tortured, CIA interrogations now being subject to the same scrutiny as those of the US military.

"We will abide by the Geneva Conventions and the Conv...

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