The major general who was the first commander of the US detention facility in Guantánamo Bay has written an editorial in the Detroit Free Press urging Congress to close the 11-year-old facility, which has been criticized for keeping international suspects in legal limbo for years. The prison should never have been opened, writes Maj. Gen. Michael Lehnert, who landed in Cuba in 2002 with 2,000 troops and the instructions to build a prison for 300 detainees within 96 hours.
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