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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: EU to test US data sharing on Guantanamo inmates AFP - Saturday, March 14 BRUSSELS (AFP) - - The European Union wants US intelligence data about Guantanamo inmates it might be asked to host and will test the level of cooperation before it accepts any, the EU's justice commissioner told AFP. ADVERTISEMENT Justice Commissioner Jacques Barrot also said the EU hopes that the United States will now pay more attention to human rights than it did during former president George W. Bush's "war on terror". Ahead of a March 16-17 visit to Washington with a high-level EU delegation, Barrot said the 27-nation bloc had an exacting list of questions about inmates of the notorious US prison in Cuba and that it wants precise answers. The broader question of sometimes troubled transatlantic data exchanges will also be on the agenda. "We have questions and we are going to test the level of cooperation from the US authorities. We will verify all the information obtained, particularly about the exact nature of the US request" for the EU to host inmates, he said. "But because we think the Americans are the ones in need of help, on the face of it I can't see why they would avoid these questions," he said. EU nations regularly demanded the closure of the jail, where "war on terror" prisoners have been held often without charge or trial, and have welcomed US President Barack Obama's decision to finally shut it down. But national laws differ widely among the 27 EU countries and they are struggling to define a common position on how best to help. In the past, US authorities have routinely proved reluctant to hand over intelligence data. Around 60 of the more than 240 prisoners have been "cleared for release", few if any of them EU citizens, and Brussels wants to know exactly why they cannot be hosted by the United States. "There is a very deep wariness on the part of EU interior ministers, who are concerned about the difficulties of hosting one or another inmate. To do that, we need to know a lot about the candidates" for Europe, Barrot said. The ministers are particularly concerned about having someone potentially dangerous on the loose in the 25-nation Schengen area, where European citizens can move freely without having their passports checked. Barrot said Europeans want assurance that the Obama administration is moving away from the practices of the past, and the continued use of the controversial Bagram air base detention centre in Afghanistan is also being watched. "The issue of Bagram is part of the questionnaire. I would be tempted to say that if we are lending a hand to close Guantanamo, it is to avoid any repeat of these errors," he said. "We would like the United States to show that the fight against terrorism is now being conducted with respect to individual rights, notably a rejection of torture," he said. "If Europe were to help accommodate inmates from Guantanamo, that would allow us to say to the Americans: 'we are with you in the fight against terrorism, but only if we respect a certain number of ethical rules'," he said. Obama has not indicated what he plans to do about the estimated 600 Bagram detainees or whether he would go forward with a planned 60-million-dollar expansion of the prison. Under plans circulated in Brussels last month, some EU nations could, if requested, host Guantanamo prisoners under national laws provided they accept security restrictions imposed by their partners. A minority of countries -- France, Italy, Portugal and Spain -- have said they might be ready to do so under strict conditions. Should they be accepted, the former prisoners might be granted restricted residency status, possibly limiting their movement within the Schengen zone, or be put under surveillance. They could also be granted refugee or protection status for one to three years, and helped to better integrate. 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