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Obama: 50 Gitmo detainees cleared for transfer
Yahoo News ^ | 5/21/09 | Yahoo

Posted on 05/21/2009 6:35:16 PM PDT by What127

WASHINGTON – Forty-eight terror suspects currently held at Guantanamo Bay are waiting to be released to other nations, the Obama administration said Thursday. The detainees are among 50 detainees whose cases President Barack Obama said Thursday have already been reviewed. The detainees would be the first to be released to other nations under the Obama administration's effort to empty the Cuba-based prison without bringing all its inmates to the United States.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: gitmo; obama

1 posted on 05/21/2009 6:35:16 PM PDT by What127
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To: What127

“My administration is in ongoing discussions with a number of other countries about the transfer of detainees to their soil for detention and rehabilitation,”

Rehabilitation? The man is a retard and a traitor!


2 posted on 05/21/2009 6:43:05 PM PDT by mylife (The Big Tent Is A Big Mistake)
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To: What127

This is a meaningless proclamation unless he can name the other nations willing to take them, and when.


3 posted on 05/21/2009 7:06:29 PM PDT by noexcuses
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To: noexcuses

Exactly...the prisoners are “waiting to be released”...but no mention of any takers.


4 posted on 05/21/2009 7:16:12 PM PDT by dawn53
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To: What127; Free ThinkerNY; freekitty; flat; unkus; SouthTexas; Piquaboy; sheik yerbouty

Cleared for transfer to the White House as Zero’s guests??? Or, are they going to Pelosi’s for high tea and then over to Reid’s and Feinstein’s to enjoy all the creature comforts allotted to Liberal fat cats? I’m sure any Congressman or Senator would be proud to house these terrorists since they’ve never met a terrorist they didn’t feel sorry for.


5 posted on 05/21/2009 7:25:02 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: ExTexasRedhead

One can only hope that’s where they are going.


6 posted on 05/21/2009 7:28:14 PM PDT by SouthTexas (Waterboard Pelosi NOW!)
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To: What127

to Chicago


7 posted on 05/21/2009 8:43:56 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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