Guantanamo Bay: Defending the construction of a new courthouse in Guantanamo Bay as a necessity for the fast resolution of cases a top US official has said, closing of the facility will require "help" of other nations including in Asia.

"One reason we are doing that is we would like to be able to make certain people have access to review, access to resolution of their cases. But of course, we would like to see Guantanamo closed. There's only one problem: What are you going to do with the bad people who are there?" US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in an interview.

These people were caught on the battlefields of Afghanistan, who have been caught plotting not just against the United States but against European capitals, against Southeast Asian capitals. What are we going to do with them? Release them again on an unsuspecting population? I don't think so, she added. She asked the countries to take back some of the suspects detained there in order to close it.

"We need some help in closing Guantanamo. But of course, we'd like to do it, but we re not going to do it at the expense of the safety of Americans and other citizens," the top administration official said.

"I think that we will do everything that we can to thin the population. A lot of changes have been made at Guantanamo. But this is a long war and these people can simply not be put out on the streets," she added.

Source : PTI