Posted on 12/30/2009 5:45:47 AM PST by rabscuttle385
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Three senior US senators on Tuesday called on President Barack Obama to stop transferring Guantanamo detainees to Yemen until Sanaa can guarantee that they will not return to the battlefield.
Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Joseph Lieberman -- the first two Republicans and the third a political independent -- said that such transfers are "highly unwise and ill-considered."
Close to half of the 198 "war on terror" detainees still at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- which Obama has vowed to close -- are from Yemen.
The senators wrote to express their "deep concern" about plans to transfer six Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo to the Yemeni government.
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“what a group of grandstanding putzes”
I wish I had said that; but, anyway, McCain and his buttboys strike again.
I hope this media attention let’s him get his fix. Since if he doesn’t he has to get his fix by stabbing us in the back over amnesty.
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