This World - Closing Guantanamo 2009 01 03 BBC2

This World - Closing Guantanamo 2010 01 03 BBC2



699 mb/00:59:10/ xvidOn his second day in office, President Obama pledged to close the Guantanamo



Detention Centre within a year. Michael Portillo reports for This World on why



it has proved impossible for him to keep his promise.

Over the past eight months, Portillo's visited the prison camps, and travelled



to Yemen, Bermuda and Washington to investigate what could be done with the 240



remaining prisoners - some of whom are thought to be too dangerous to release,



but impossible to successfully convict.

As a former Defence Secretary, Portillo has first-hand experience of the



political conflict between security and civil liberties. He looks at how the



President has got stuck between a rock and a hard place. What way forward can



Portillo see for Obama?



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