Archive for Tuesday, January 10, 2012  Guantanamo closure hopes
fade as prison turns 10  January 10, 2012    "I wonder if the
U.S. government wants to keep us here forever," the 37-year-old
al-Nahdi wrote in a recent letter to his lawyers.    "They would
like to send a message that the prisoners of Guantanamo still
reject the injustice of their imprisonment," said Kassem, a law
professor at the City University of New York.   Critics are also
angry over the president's Dec. 31 signing of the National
Defense Authorization Act, which includes a provision allowing
indefinite military detention without trial.  "Now, we have
Guantanamo forever signed into law," said Andrea Prasow, senior
counterterrorism counsel for Human Rights Watch. "Instead of
pushing forward with the agenda of closure, he has accepted the
idea of indefinite detention for the duration of some undefined
hostilities."  White House press secretary Jay Carney said
Monday that Obama still wants to close Guantanamo because "it's
the right thing to d