Guantanamo prison greatest war crime in US history: Analyst

The torture and abuse of inmates at the US detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is the “greatest shame and war crime” in American history, a US military analyst based in California says.

It is amazing that the international community and the United Nations have not filed criminal charges against the US government for “the continuing torture and monstrosity,” said Scott Bennett, a former US Army psychological warfare officer.

The Guantanamo prison “has absolutely done nothing to help the United States increase its security or do anything in a positive light about the United States reputation in the eyes of the world,” Bennett told Press TV on Monday.

“Those people who have been behind this Guantanamo Bay operation and strategy really have had nothing but America’s disintegration and collapse as their agenda,” he added.

The comments come after the United States sent five inmates of the notorious US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The five men, who have been held for more than 13 years at the US prison, have been released and sent to the UAE, the Pentagon said Sunday.

The five Yemeni prisoners were accepted for resettlement in the Persian Gulf nation after US authorities determined they no longer posed a threat.

The Pentagon said 107 inmates remained at the Guantanamo prison.

As many as 775 detainees are said to have been brought to the Guantanamo Bay prison, which was set up after the September 11, 2001 attacks in the US.

Washington says the prisoners are terror suspects, but has not pressed charges against most of them in any court. Many detainees have been on hunger strike for months to draw attention to their conditions at the US military prison.

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