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U.K. Attorney General Calls for U.S. to Close Guantanamo Camp U.K. Attorney General Peter Goldsmith called on the U.S. to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp for terror suspects, saying it is ``unacceptable.'' ``There are certain principles on which there can be no compromise,'' Goldsmith said during a speech in London today. ``Fair trial is one of those.'' The U.S. has held 490 people at the military base in Cuba since 2001. The prisoners don't enjoy protections of the Constitution because the base isn't on U.S. soil. The detainees come mostly from the people U.S. forces captured in Afghanistan during an invasion aimed at destroying terrorist training camps and the Taliban government in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington. Prime Minister Tony Blair, who was U.S. President George W. Bush's ally in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, said on May 8 that the existence of the camp was ``an anomaly'' in international law that should end ``sooner rather than later.'' Goldsmith, the government's chief lawyer, spelled out U.K. objections to handling of prisoners at the camp in more detail today. ``We in the U.K. were unable to accept that the U.S. military tribunals proposed for those detained at Guantanamo Bay offered sufficient guarantees of a fair trial,'' Goldsmith said. ``The business of Guantanamo Bay is unacceptable. It is time it closes.'' ---------------------------------------------------
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