Posted on Mon, Feb. 12, 2007
Top British attorney: Close Guantánamo
BY CAROL ROSENBERG
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Addressing the American Bar Association's annual winter meeting in Miami this morning, Britain's attorney general condemned the new U.S. format for war crimes at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, as ``too little and too late.''
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He called Guantánamo Bay ''a symbol of injustice'' and disputed the notion that, since it's designed to carry out U.S. justice, outsiders should remain silent.
''The struggle against global extremism and terrorism'' must be won not only through force but also through a battle of ``values and ideas.''
''The presence of Guantánamo makes it so much more difficult to do this. For all of us,'' he said.
And while it might require changes in existing laws for national security reasons, ``this does not give an unlimited license to throw away our values for the sake of expediency.''
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