NEW YORK, United States (AFP) - A long-running effort by the Bush administration to send home many of the terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has been stymied in part because of concern among United States officials that the prisoners may not be treated humanely by their own governments, The New York Times reports.
Citing unnamed officials, the newspaper said the US administration hopes eventually to transfer or release many of the roughly 490 suspects now held at Guantanamo.
As of February, military officials said, the Pentagon was ready to repatriate more than 150 of the detainees once arrangements could be made with their home countries, according to the report.
But those arrangements have been more difficult to broker than officials in Washington anticipated or have previously acknowledged, raising questions about how quickly the administration can meet its goal of scaling back detention operations at Guantanamo, The Times said.>>>>snip
http://www.afp.com/english/news/stories/060430063538.s8p24ekf.htmlNow that is the spin of spin
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