Posted on 12/26/2008 11:33:08 AM PST by lizol
Guantanamo prisoners to be sent to Poland?
Created: 24.12.2008 09:15
Poland would be willing to take prisoners from Guantanamo detention camp, after the new Obama administration closes it down.
Some prisoners from Guantanamo are likely to be kept in European countries, including Poland.
According to the head of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs, Krzysztof Lisek of the ruling Civic Platform, there are no political obstacles to put such a plan into practice.
“If our ally submitted a request like that, we wouldn’t refuse,” Lisek said. “But we do know the situation of the Polish penitentiary system, the cramped conditions in the jails and a notorious lack of places. So in practice this would be extremely hard,” he adds.
Opposition MP and deputy head of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Paweł Kowal is of a similar opinion: “We should act in accordance with the obligations we have towards our ally, but also in accordance with the law”.
And it remains unclear whether keeping foreign prisoners in detention could be reconciled with the international conventions Poland observes.
According to the Rzeczpospolita daily, the US administration has asked the previous government to accept a few prisoners from Guantanamo. Warsaw however, turned the offer down, as they believed this would put Polish soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq in danger.
Spokesman for the Foreign Ministry Piotr Paszkowski said Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has not made a decision on the matter as yet.
The liquidation of Guantanamo detention camp in Cuba was promised by the US president-elect Barack Obama in an attempt improve the image of the US around the world.
'Be Careful What You Wish For'
I think the released detainees should be taken in by Obama, Pelosi and the rest of the Democrat members of Congress.
drop them in UK and set them free ill say
We should contract the whole prison out to China.
They’ll grieve for their happy little island home.
Can’t let them go.
Can’t keep them.
Can’t give them to anyone.
Do what the dog pound does.
Euthanize them. (Humanely of course.)
You bet! Wherever they are "reassigned" likely won't have tropical weather, volleyball courts, specialty foods and the like.
At that point, the Libs will, of course, start clamoring to return them to Gitmo.
How about Kenya?
We got connections.
SWEET!
Seriously I don't get it, what's the difference between Poland and Gitmo? I thought they wanted to bring them to the US and give them the same rights that citizens used to enjoy?
“a steady diet of Kielbasi / sp. “
There are at least 23 ways to spell kolbassi, all of them wrong!
Send them to Chicago to the “Office of the President-Elect”
But, then again, I wouldn't really have expected Obama to think ahead - that requires skills that you just can't find in your average "community organizer".
Irony would have the islamo-terrorists housed in places that were formerly inhabited by Jews (but, of course, would now just used for detention):
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Belzec
Kulmhof
Majdanek
Sobibór
Treblinka
Warschau
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