Guantanamo detention camp needs to be closed: Barack Obama

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama pledged on Tuesday to make a new push to close the Guantanamao detention camp, saying his administration would re-engage with Congress in an attempt to overcome obstacles to shutting the facility.

"It needs to be closed," Obama told a White House news conference. "I'm going to go back at this." But he offered no new path to removing congressional, political and legal hurdles he faces.




Obama failed to make good on his promise to close the internationally condemned prison at the US military base in Cuba, which was opened by his predecessor George W Bush to house foreign terrorism suspects, within a year of taking office in early 2009.

Guantanamo has drawn new attention amid a hunger strike by many of the prisoners, some of whom are being force-fed.

For more news visit our page : Magazine, Urdu News, asianaffairs

 world urdu news        News magazine    current issues

Whole middle east           Political magazine             Social affairs

Related tags:

Latest news, world news, current affairs, breaking news, arab country news, daily news, Islamic news, india news, Pakistan news, , india Pakistan news, current news, news headlines, Latest World News,Articles,

Latest news, latest urdu news, world news, current affairs, breaking news, arab country news, sport news, cricket news, daily news, Islamic news, india news, Pakistan news, india Pakistan news, current news,Current affairs, Economic Affairs,Islam and Human Rights, Islam and Politics , Islam and the West, Muslim Media, Islamic Society, Islamic World,Latest World News,  breaking news ,Top Breaking News, Current Affairs, daily news, recent news, news headlines