MIAMI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A violent weekend clash between guards and prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and the release of harrowing accounts by inmates of force-feeding of hunger strikers threw a harsh spotlight on President Barack Obama's failure to close the camp.
Sharpening the focus further on the plight of inmates, the majority of an independent task force will recommend on Tuesday that Obama shut the prison by the end of 2014 and either try the remaining 166 prisoners, repatriate them to home countries or transfer them to U.S. jails, a commission member told Reuters.
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