FORMER US president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter has called for the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to be closed, "to demonstrate clearly our nation's historic commitment to protect human rights". "Our government needs to close down Guantanamo and the two dozen secret detention facilities run by the United States as soon as possible," Carter said yesterday in Atlanta at a conference organised by the Carter Centre. He also called for an end to the policy of transferring prisoners to countries where there have been reports of torture, and pressed for an independent commission to investigate the...