ATLANTA -- Former President Carter on Tuesday called for the United States to shut down the Guantanamo Bay prison to demonstrate its commitment to human rights.

"The U.S. continues to suffer terrible embarrassment and a blow to our reputation ... because of reports concerning abuses of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo," Carter said after a two-day human rights conference at his Atlanta center.

About 540 detainees are being held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Some have been there more than three years without being charged with a crime. Most were captured on the battlefields of Afghanistan in 2001 and 2002 and were sent to Guantanamo Bay in hope of extracting useful intelligence about the al-Qaida terrorist network.

Despite his criticism of Guantanamo Bay, Carter said Amnesty International should not have called the prison "the gulag of our time" in a report last month. President Bush has termed the report by the human-rights group "absurd."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/07/AR2005060701309_pf.html

AI should have call it as American Virtue towards human right. If it is not a gulag, why he ask to close the camp?

You should know by now that NOBODY listens to that senile old fool. Quit using him and your Socialist web sites as your sources. Makes you look kinda.... well......

STUPID.

What is the problem with Socialist web sites ?
Are they not better than junk?