Guantanamo Bay - Still Haunting White House
Obama unlikely to close Guantanamo as 'War on Terror' continues Some Guantanamo inmates will continue to be indefinitely detained The politics of war and terrorism have put President Obama's order to close Guantanamo on hold. In America , the indefinite detention of suspected terrorists remains an accepted cost of waging a global war. Just two days into his first term, US President Barack Obama ordered the Guantanamo Bay detention camp to be closed. However, his initial earnestness has given way to a painstaking implementation process fraught by the politics of war and terrorism. Last December, Congress blocked funding to transfer detainees out of Guantanamo . The move came a month after the surprisingly narrow conviction of Ahmed Ghailani for his role in the 1998 US embassy bombings in East Africa . Ghailani's controversial trial raised concern about the unpredictability of prosecuting terrorism suspects in civilian courts. This politically charged environmen...