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Guantanamo 'prepared' for new inmates: US admiral 
On the campaign trail, US President Donald Trump vowed to load
Guantanamo with 'bad dudes' Guantanamo has not received any new
inmates since 2008 (AFP)  
MEE and agencies 
Thursday 15 February 2018 19:20 UTC 
Last update: Friday 16 February 2018 4:01 
Guantanamo 
A top US military official said on Thursday that the prison at
Guantanamo Bay is "prepared" to take new detainees, but has not yet
received the order to do so. The prison, which was opened by former
President George W Bush to hold terrorism suspects captured overseas
after the 11 September 2001 attacks, has come to symbolise harsh
detention practices that opened the United States to accusations of
torture. His successor Barack Obama ended the use of "enhanced
interrogation techniques" via executive order in January 2009, and
reduced the inmate population to 41, but fell short of fulfilling his
promise to close the jail. President Donald Trump last month signed an
executive order reversing Obama's ultimately fruitless 2009 directive
to shutter the prison. "We have 41 detainees who are there right now.
We are prepared to receive more should they be directed to us,"
Admiral Kurt Tidd, who oversees the military's Southern Command that
includes Guantanamo, told lawmakers. "As of today we have not been
given a warning order that new detainees might be heading in our
direction, but our responsibility will be to integrate them in
effectively." 
US military officials have been openly discussing the fate of Islamic
State (IS) group detainees, mainly foreign fighters, held by US-backed
militias in northern Syria. Guantanamo has not received any new
inmates since 2008 but on the campaign trail, Trump vowed to load the
facility with "bad dudes," and said it would be "fine" if US terror
suspects were sent there for trial. During his State of the Union
speech in January, Trump said IS captives would in "many cases" end up
in Guantanamo. 
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/guantanamo-prepared-new-inmates-us-admiral-1684468227

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