Cuba demands US gives back Guantanamo Bay

[babylonsister]

Cuba demands US gives back Guantanamo Bay

February 14, 2008 09:55am


CUBA has demanded the US return Guantanamo Bay to the island nation and denounced the "war on terror" prison, where six detainees could face the death penalty.

Cuba's Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque claimed today that suspects held in the US naval base in the southeastern tip of Cuba have been subjected to torture and face unfair legal treatment.

Cuba rejects "the violation of human rights, unjust incarceration of prisoners held there without charges, and their appearance in courts without guarantees and in which they are convicted in advance,'' he told reporters.

He did not directly refer to the case of six detainees facing charges that carry the death penalty.

"We demand again the closure of the indecent Guantanamo prison, the return of the territory illegally occupied to our fatherland,'' Perez Roque said.

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http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0%2C21985%2C23211613-663%2C00.html

[Jack Rabbit]

1. Why shouldn't the US return Guantánamo to Cuba?

It's not like the Bush regime is doing anything constructive there.

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. Coal refueling station for our navy

Don't you remember?

[TahitiNut]

4. Oh. I thought it was an R&R Center.

:dunce:

[Jack Rabbit]

5. They can refuel in Pepsi Cola, Florida.

Can't they?

[Tom Joad]

6. hmmm? Florida isn't good enough?

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. Too far away for our coal fired ships these days

90 miles is their limit ya know.

[Warren Stupidity]

3. They have a just case. nt.

[bbinacan]

8. This is interesting/from Wikipedia

By the war's end, the U.S. government had obtained control of all of Cuba from Spain. A perpetual lease for the area around Guantánamo Bay was offered February 23, 1903, from Tomás Estrada Palma, an American citizen, who became the first President of Cuba. The Cuban-American Treaty gave, among other things, the Republic of Cuba ultimate sovereignty over Guantánamo Bay while granting the United States "complete jurisdiction and control" of the area for coaling and naval stations.

[PetraPooh]

9. EXCELLENT! I hope they can manage what we have yet to accomplish.

[Beam Me Up]

10. FAR FUCKING OUT!!!!

EDIT: Excuse my four letter excitement. :blush: I thought it would get greeked or something.