Posted on 12/31/2008 4:25:17 PM PST by BGHater
Deal will help Obama to close down terror jail
Britain is preparing to receive foreign terror suspects from Guantánamo Bay so that Barack Obama can shut it down, The Times has learnt.
Government sources say that Britain now supports moves to rehouse the detainees, despite previous refusals to help President Bush.
A Downing Street official said that a process to deal with the detainees was being put in place and that decisions “would be for the Home Secretary to decide on a case-by-case basis”.
The issue is the subject of intense negotiations within Whitehall. The Foreign Office appears much keener on the idea than other departments, which will have to deal with the suspects’ immigration status and whether they will need special housing and cash benefits. Having foreign terror suspects with no links to the UK housed here inevitably will provoke controversy.
“Of course the Foreign Office wants to do it, they want to get off to a good start with Obama,” said a Whitehall source. “This is the sort of thing that will require a Cabinet-level decision.”
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er..please make date 01 Jan 2009.
Thanx. Nice jobe BG. -10 cool points.
Just doesn’t seem like a good idea.
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Coolness Moderator, is that an adequate penalty?
Is the next step to turn Guantanamo Navy Base over to the Cubans???
Don’t be surprised....
Special housing? Cash benefits? Where do I sign up? Seriously, can’t we buy an island somewhere to house these people and get Sheriff Arapahoe (sp?) to adminster it?
You should be awarded The Best Idea Award.
But I guess there's not enough of them available to go around to live on parole with all the utter fools in Washington so it's no big deal anyway.
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