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FM AMCONSUL SAO PAULO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 7318
INFO RHEHNSC/NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL WASHDC IMMEDIATE
RUEHBR/AMEMBASSY BRASILIA PRIORITY 8424
RUEHRI/AMCONSUL RIO DE JANEIRO PRIORITY 8242
RUCPDOC/USDOC WASHDC 2869
UNCLAS SAO PAULO 000669
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TAGS: KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: GWOT: BROWN'S STATEMENTS ON GUANTANAMO; SCO
PAULO
"Gordon Is Actually Is Doing A Favor For Bush"
Liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo's
Washington correspondent Sergio Davila wrote (8/8): "By requesting
yesterday the release of the five foreigners from the US military
prison in Guantanamo with permission for them to work in the UK,
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is actually making a favor to
President George W. Bush. The Republican president's 'Gulag
archipelago' has become an elephant in the current administration's
living room, a judicial aberration criticized by every political
segment. Its closure has already been suggested even by defense
Secretary Robert Gates.... There are [in Guantanamo] about 370
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prisoners, whose situation is a kind of judicial limbo.... Fewer
than 10 of them may have had major participation in terrorist
groups. It is likely that the rest do not know and will never know
what they have been charged with."
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