Release of Guantanamo Detainees Urged

[Khephra]

UNITED NATIONS -- Opponents of the U.S. policy of detaining terrorism suspects without legal access urged Washington to follow-up its release of five Britons with the return of all the estimated 660 people detained in Guantanamo, Cuba to their home countries.

British actor Corin Redgrave, co-founder of the Guantanamo Human Rights Commission, came to the United Nations Wednesday with relatives of three detainees to demand justice for all those being held, a day after the United States sent five British detainees home from the U.S. military's prison camp at Guantanamo Bay. One was released immediately by British authorities and the other four were freed late Wednesday.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments next month from lawyers representing foreign-born "enemy combatants" being held incommunicado in open-ended custody at Guantanamo Bay. At issue is whether the prisoners can challenge their detention in U.S. courts.

U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said that designating the detainees as enemy combatants "is a vital part of the war on terrorism," that the Supreme Court should reaffirm.

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[Kagemusha]

1. Of course this is why Rumsfeld made those absurd comments

without proof or even a visible foundation in fact that already released detainees were 'returning to terror'...