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| Fri, 03-27-2009 - 8:16pm |
Former Gitmo detainees may well become Americans. From suspected terrorist and enemy combatant to TANF recipient. What a change in administration can do.
http://krmg.com/blogs/the_krmg_morning_news_blog/2009/03/some-gitmo-inmates-to-be-freed.html
Some Gitmo inmates to be freed in US, given welfare
During his news conference, (US National Intelligence Director Dennis)Blair also said the Obama administration is still wrestling with what to do with the remaining 240 detainees at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, which the president has ordered closed.
Some of the detainees, deemed non-threatening, may be released into the United States as free men, Blair confirmed.
That would happen when they can't be returned to their home countries, because the governments either won't take them or the U.S. fears they will be abused or tortured. That is the case with 17 Uighurs (WEE'-gurz), Chinese Muslim separatists who were cleared for release from the jail long ago. The U.S. can't find a country willing to take them, and it will not turn them over to China.
Blair said the former prisoners would have get some sort of assistance to start their new lives in the United States.
"We can't put them out on the street," he said.
Amongst the very good questions asked by the Weekly Standard:
Even if you don't think that we should lock them up and throw away the key, do we really want to pay them to live on U.S. soil?

There is no evidence that they ever did anything even remotely hostile to the USA.
***That would happen when they can't be returned to their home countries, because the governments either won't take them or the U.S. fears they will be abused or tortured. That is the case with 17 Uighurs (WEE'-gurz), Chinese Muslim separatists who were cleared for release from the jail long ago. The U.S. can't find a country willing to take them, and it will not turn them over to China.*****
It looks like we created the problem, so it's our responsibility to deal with it. It's called accountability. It's somewhat like during the Red Scare, when we wouldn't allow certain individuals to return to their home countries for
It's part of being a great, humane, and evolved nation that allegedly considers peoples human rights.
Ahhh...but they aren't Americans, so therefore our
**Were there ever plans for these prisoners, who haven't been accused of anything?