Posted on 06/13/2009 1:20:14 PM PDT by Quaker
The White House opted not to tell British authorities about a deal to resettle the four Chinese Uighurs (Guantanamo detainees) in Bermuda.
(Excerpt) Read more at stuckon-stupid.com ...
Remember the old days when the British were our friends and Islamic extremists were our enemies? Now it’s the other way around.
Typical muslim behavior from Obama. Lies and deception straight from the koran.
Bermuda is a British territory. If I were the PM I would arrest all four of them, transfer them to the Tower and then send them to China. And arrange for the Ministry of Public Security to have a welcoming committee for them. And I would even pay the bill for the welcoming party. Let’s see, 36 cents divided among four of them....
That is exactly King Obozo is doing!!!!!!
I like your thinking!
Those guys sure look malnourished.
What, no flower necklaces to greet them?
Which means - squat.
And I read that these terrorists were accompanied by none other than Gregg Craig.
I just wanna know who?
Uighurs? I guess Eminem has escaped, but Vanilla Ice may still be in custody.
“Bermuda is a British territory.”
It’s also close to America, unlike Palau.
Why send 17 there but four to Bermuda?
And why such cushy travel?
I said before, I bet these are the best of the bunch. The ones least problematic. In about a year’s time the media will “find” these guys and use them as emblematic of Bush/American evils or inferiority.
This is how we treat the Brits, who rushed to stand beside us after 9/11.
Words fail.
Shermy, I am shocked, shocked I tell you, by your cynicism. Many Bermudan schoolchildren have expressed great interest in interacting with these guests and-soon-to-be-citizens. It seems you just can't get proper hands-on terrorist training in Bermuda nowadays, so these chaps do fill a need by performing jobs that Bermudans cannot handle on their own.
BTW, when the colorful and quaint Uighurs become British citizens, say in a month or two, that passport will open all of the EU to them. Also BTW, why didn't Team Obama think to notify London about this adventure in resettlement? I guess our leader is just so darn busy ....
How much is that apiece? More wasted taxpayer money!
I’m not so sure the British were really kept in the dark about this.
Yes that is what has leaked and only a tiny handfull of media is even reporting the story...
...residents there are also said to be very upset - total population of this tiny nation is only about 18,000 spread across a handfull of islands
Pressed on whether the US had told the British government, an unnamed state department official was quoted as saying: “We did talk to them before the Uighurs got on the plane.”
Now a senior US official has told the BBC it was a deliberate decision not to consult London on the resettlement, after other countries came under pressure from China not to accept the Uighurs.
In a highly unusual move, a senior US official said Washington opted to keep details of the deal from London until the last minute to enable Britain to deny all knowledge of the deal and thus avoid China’s anger, says the BBC’s Washington correspondent Kim Ghattas.
The official said they expected London to be upset but added he felt the deal was made on solid ground, in direct talks with the Bermuda government, who accepted the men as part of guest worker programme.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8098341.stm
Let’s see Palua is getting $200,000,000.00 for taking 15 gitmo releasees. How much are we paying Bermuds for 4?
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