Posted on 12/28/2015 11:35:42 AM PST by Nachum
In September, U.S. State Department officials invited a foreign delegation to the Guantanamo Bay detention center to persuade the group to take detainee Tariq Ba Odah to their country. If they succeeded, the transfer would mark a small step toward realizing President Barack Obama's goal of closing the prison before he leaves office.
The foreign officials told the administration they would first need to review Ba Odah's medical records, according to U.S. officials with knowledge of the episode. The Yemeni has been on a hunger strike for seven years, dropping to 74 pounds from 148, and the foreign officials wanted to make sure they could care for him.
For the next six weeks, Pentagon officials declined to release the records, citing patient privacy concerns, according to the U.S. officials. The delegation, from a country administration officials declined to identify, canceled its visit. After the administration promised to deliver the records, the delegation traveled to Guantanamo and appeared set to take the prisoner off U.S. hands, the officials said. The Pentagon again withheld Ba Odah's full medical file.
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Yeah riiiight somebody is going to stop him with anything he does.
The gears of government grind slowly even for the Won.
Oh dear, a military coup...
If this story is true, the Commander of Gitmo should be Court Martialed. Personally I’m not buying it, there is more going on then what see my n this piece.
HIPAA Saves America...
They ought to have let him starve himself to death rather than force feed him.
Obama wants to close the Gitmo prison so he can surrender the whole Guantanamo base to Castro. If Pentagon brass is stopping him, hooray for them.
Bingo!
Agree.
Don’t bet on it.
Look, Hussein has plenty of “I Hate America” agenda left. Valerie is pushing it and he will obey.
I bet he gives up the whole thing to Cuba.
Somehow I do not believe he has been faithful to his "strike"... He should have been pushing up daisies more than 6 1/2 years ago.
There are no “Good” reasons to close Gitmo!
They are “unlawful combatants”.
They are not subject to the Geneva convention.
They do NOT have any U.S. Constitutional protections.
The war is NOT over, as the terrorists continue their attacks, whether we fight back or not.
The fact of the prison or the prisoners is NOT a motivator for terrorists, and has never been cited as one, by the terrorists.
Re post #14: Exactly!
7 yrs on hunger strike- and only loses half his body weight.
The whole story sounds like a fairy tale
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