Guantanamo closure by 2016 'unrealistic': commander

Sun, 09 November 2014

00:18

The commander of the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay believes there is little chance of the controversial facility being closed in the next two years, leaving Barack Obama struggling to achieve his goal of shuttering the jail before he leaves office.

Camp commander colonel David Heath told reporters he thought it was "unrealistic" to expect the prison to close during his two-year posting which ends in mid-2016.

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