BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — U.S. Sen. David Vitter will travel to the Guantanamo Bay prison camp next week, after objecting to the detention center’s closure. Vitter will visit the prison in Cuba with several other members of Congress. President Barack Obama has ordered the prison camp closed within a year. It still houses around 245 detainees, many of them suspected terrorists, but it is not clear how many will be prosecuted or where many of them will be transferred. Vitter says the detainees shouldn’t be released until they’ve been cleared of any involvement in terrorist activities and until it is clear they won’t be transferred to the United States. Obama wants to close Guantanamo Bay and establish a new system for prosecuting suspected terrorists. —-Contact The Daily Reveille news staff at [email protected]
Vitter to visit Guantanamo detention facility – 11: 50 a.m.
January 29, 2009