These Uighurs may have been in Gitmo, but they are not terrorists. They were cleared of that charge by the Bush Administration and the courts last year. They were picked up in Pakistan, and never near any “battlefield” of the Iraq or Afghan Wars. Musharraf and local Pakistani warlords had their own political reasons for wanting to get rid of these guys and came up with scary charges that had exactly ZERO evidence.
They’d be welcome by me to live in my neighborhood but the Obama Administration won’t let them in the US because of our own political considerations.
Sooner or later the US will probably admit that not all the people we held in Gitmo were terrorists, or terrorist sympathizers, or even a threat. Or is it impossible for us to admit we are humans and make mistakes?
Or is it impossible for us to admit we are humans and make mistakes?
They did attend a terrorist training camp though.
Musharraf was under attack from every side and he was our primary ally in the region during the months after 9/11. It's not much of a stretch to assume that people trained at an al qaeda training camp didn't just get lost on their vacation.
Yea, lets bring in some more Islamists....good thinking. They admitted to attending terrorist training camps. They are terrorists. The Uighurs of China are trying to create their own Islamic state within China. That makes them an enemy of the free world.
Besides all of this they must have a grduge against the USA now. Thankfully you do not run this country.
(T)hey are not terrorists.
Who says? The Bush Administration arrested them as terrorists and sent them to Gitmo. Now, the Obama administration says they are innocent.
As far as I’m concerned, if they were arrested as terrorists (especially by Pres Bush), then they are terrorists. It’s very convenient for Obama to say they are innocent. It’s just his way of letting all the terrorists go free so they can attack America again.
How can anyone be an innocent terrorist? Execute all of them, that will solve the problem.