Blair: Guantanamo an 'anomaly'
2004-07-06 12:11
London - Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Tuesday that the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was an "anomaly" that has to end.
Blair confirmed that he had personally asked US President George W Bush to free the remaining four Britons detained in the camp.
He said Washington continued to insist, however, that the British government must guarantee the men will not pose a threat, either to Britain or elsewhere in the world.
"Guantanamo Bay is an anomaly that has at some point got to be brought to an end," Blair told a committee of lawmakers.
"The American response has been the same all the way through. At the end if the trial requirements do not meet our standards then they will come back, but we also have to make sure that they will not be a threat either to this country or elsewhere," he added.
- AP