U.N. Demands Someone Listen

Published Thursday, February 16, 2006 by Ted | E-mail this post

The United Nations has demanded that the U.S. release the entire group of inmates at its anti- terrorism prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Bush administration at first dismissed the idea assuming that the U.N. was just joking only to later realize that they backed their own summery stating that holding terrorists responsible for murder and mass destruction “amounts to arbitrary detention” per the United Nation's report. Five U.N. investigators have spent the past few months interviewing previous detainees who stated that “the conditions were not sanitary as there was no abundance of sand, the bathing was excessively abundant and bathrooms seemed to function with uncanny precision.” UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said while he didn't agree with everything in the study, “The United States should close down the base because it makes the entire U.N. look really rather pointless.” Although many inmates at Guantanamo Bay have as of yet to be charged they are considered to be very dangerous because they kill people. When offered the chance to visit the base the U.N. investigators declined as it had no direct bearing on their report. “Unfortunately it appears that the Americans have a somewhat different view as to what constitutes torture," senior British judge Justice Andrew Collins told the High Court in London. The U.S.'s stance "doesn't appear to coincide with most civilized nations, who would just let them go to kill again.” He said. In direct response the Bush administration has announced in a new initiative, “Take Home a Terrorist”, that any person at Guantanamo Bay’s facility would receive a limited terms release as long as a U.N. employee was to house them for two years. As of yet no prisoners have been released under that initiative.

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