Geneva - A better solution to dealing with prisoners currently held at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay on Cuba has yet to be found, making closing it a difficult task, a former senior British commander said Friday. "Guantanamo Bay is far from a perfect regime, but I have yet come up with anything better and I don't know anyone else who has," said retired colonel Richard Kemp, who led British troops in Afghanistan in 2003 and served in Iraq.
"I don't know what you replace it with. The alternative solution is what?" the former commander said in an interview with the German Press Agency dpa.
He said some who had been released from the detention center in recent years had reverted to "extremist activities."
US President Barack Obama announced upon taking office that he would seek to close the centre, but has ran into obstacles in finding solutions for many of the detainees still there.
