Posted on 01/12/2016 12:23:05 PM PST by jazusamo
The U.S. military is preparing a bulk transfer of 10 detainees on Thursday from its detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, two defense officials told Fox News.
The transfer, amounting to about 10 percent of the remaining prisoners, marks the largest group of detainees to be shipped out of the camp since Defense Secretary Ash Carter informed Congress in December his department would transfer a wave of detainees at the beginning of 2016.
The accelerated transfers reflect a renewed effort by the president - who is likely to highlight the issue in the State of the Union address Tuesday night - to shutter the controversial prison camp. But the moves have heightened security concerns, as some of the latest detainees being shipped out were deemed medium- or high-risk prisoners.
"All these guys are the 'hardcore' type; if not, they would have been transferred earlier," said one official familiar with the list of those being transferred Thursday.
The upcoming transfer would bring the number of detainees moved out of the camp this year to 14; the administration is looking to transfer a total of 17 in the coming weeks. Right, now, there are 103 detainees remaining at the camp, and all have ties to Al Qaeda or other terrorist groups.
A Pentagon spokesman would not comment on the bulk transfer Thursday when reached by Fox News.
The 10 detainees are expected to go to countries in the Middle East, but officials declined to outline which ones specifically.
The transfers are part of an administration effort to bring down the prison camp's population as much as possible. Fifty-nine prisoners, however, currently are not eligible for transfer abroad, and the administration is trying to figure out what to do with them.
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Obama wants them back on the battlefield.
It’s only a glimpse of who we will see be released and or pardoned before the end of this year.....
He’s going to draw down to 59. He’s going to go to Cuba, close the base and hand the keys back to Castro and Castro. He’ll declare victory and the Cubans will let the 59 worst go wherever.
That wouldn’t surprise me at all, he definitely intends to give Gitmo back to the commies.
Congress has no say in this?
Obama must be crazy!
This is stupid....
Or, the Traitor-in-Chief...
I don't know if I can bring myself to listen to him tonight as he showcases wonderful Muslim imports, toots his horn about his accomplishments, and promises us that he won't go away after his term is over, but will "keep working for America."
“Congress has no say in this?”
They do.
Every House member and all but a few Senators support everything their god-king says and does.
Like everything else they turned that responsibility over to someone else. I think I heard Ash Carter has to okay the transfers.
no way will I listen to him tonight. I have much better things to do than to listen to him who has no live for this country wants to ring us down.
Congress are nothing but cowards who won’t defend this country for the most part.
The residents of GITMO should be designated “enemy combatants”. Then give them summary courts martial. Let the chips fall where they may. Obama could clear GITMO if he wanted to. He really doesn’t.
Huh? You do know there is a special envoy appointed whose mission is to identify, and transfer all detainees that can be transferred, right? All with congressional approval. Congressmen are in and out of GTMO during the whole process.
Did you think the U.S. was going to keep people indefinitely without trial?
It’s like Carter and the Panama Canal.
Our elected “representatives” just don’t care..
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They don’t. They care more about their luxuries, their job, and the lifestyle they have got used to , while us peasants have to live with their consequences.
How much more before some one calls TREASON on the Indonesian?
Traitor is probably more appropriate. I won’t listen to him, can’t stand him.
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