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Canada a desired location for Guantanamo Bay detainees
CBC News ^ | February 3, 2009 | Darren Bernhardt

Posted on 02/03/2009 7:28:40 PM PST by Loyalist

Many Guantanamo Bay detainees cleared of terrorist charges and slated for release have expressed a desire to live in Canada, and refugee organizations are calling for sponsors.

The Canadian Council for Refugees (CCR), a non-profit umbrella group representing several non-governmental organizations and churches, is leading the plea, which goes out to groups and private individuals alike. The ability for citizens to sponsor refugees is unique to Canada, according to CCR executive director Janet Dench, noting refugees to every other country must be government-sponsored.

With U.S. President Barack Obama signing an executive order on Jan. 22 to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within a year, there is a heightened urgency to find homes for the 55-60 international detainees who cannot return to their home countries for fear of persecution, Dench said.

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Some media reports have stated there are six detainees, including three Uighurs, who have applied for resettlement in Canada. The Uighurs are a Muslim minority group from northwestern China, many of whom have fought for independence from China.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...


TOPICS: Canada; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; gitmo; guantanamo; taliban
Lead by example, Ms. Dench. Have your organization's members take these poor souls into their homes. You too, house one in your spare room.
1 posted on 02/03/2009 7:28:40 PM PST by Loyalist
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To: Loyalist

Arctic Prison 100 miles from nowhere. They escape, they freeze to death. Or the polar bears get a snack.


2 posted on 02/03/2009 7:31:15 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Above the Arctic Circle, let em run around free, no shoes of course, but hey, they wanted their freedom right?


3 posted on 02/03/2009 7:33:01 PM PST by Danae (Amerikan Unity My Ass)
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To: Loyalist
Let's see....3000 miles of border with about 200 border-patrol agents???

Seems as if this could meet oscumbo's strategic goals for the destruction of the U.S.

4 posted on 02/03/2009 7:43:39 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Loyalist

> there is a heightened urgency to find homes for the 55-60 international detainees who cannot return to their home countries for fear of persecution, Dench said.

Fear of prosecution?? There will be parties and parades waiting for them. Heck, Al Qaeda will give back their badge numbers and personal terrorist packs if they want it.


5 posted on 02/03/2009 7:46:02 PM PST by max americana
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To: Loyalist

Move the detanies next door to Sidwell Friends.


6 posted on 02/03/2009 7:53:18 PM PST by dancusa (Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.)
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To: Loyalist

what are the Canadians going to do? Polite the terrorists until they talk? Make their eyeballs bleed with stroboscopic videos of Don Cherry’s wardrobe?


7 posted on 02/03/2009 7:54:14 PM PST by Nipplemancer (Abolish the DEA !)
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To: Danae

If the Canadians will just dress ‘em up like little seals, knock ‘em sharply on their heads, then just skin them dead or alive, we should give them all the terrorists we can catch. Helps us get rid of the vermin, and gives the Canadians in remote parts something interesting to do. (SARC)


8 posted on 02/03/2009 7:58:14 PM PST by mathurine
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To: Loyalist
A simple stipulation ~ the released terrorists (and/or suspects) can reside in Canada no closer than 100 miles from the United States border.

They'll starve to death as they slowly sink into meskeg up to their necks, sucked dry of blood by no-see-ums and enormous clouds of mosquitos.

9 posted on 02/03/2009 8:11:11 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

No-see-ums, that works for me. They are torture right there..... isn’t that against the Geneva Conventions? Bugs should be OUTLAWED!


10 posted on 02/03/2009 8:31:50 PM PST by Danae (Amerikan Unity My Ass)
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To: Loyalist

NOOOOOO, we do not want them.
For the first time in my life-Not In My Back Yard!!!!


11 posted on 02/03/2009 9:24:07 PM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: mathurine

I like how you think


12 posted on 02/03/2009 9:24:52 PM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: Loyalist

This is CBC bs....they are not going to get into Canada.


13 posted on 02/03/2009 9:36:03 PM PST by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

That prison would have to be free of sled-dogs. Dogs are offensive to Muslims, don’t yah know?


14 posted on 02/03/2009 11:00:59 PM PST by PizzaDriver (an heinleinian/libertarian)
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To: PizzaDriver

I see stupid people.

They’re everywhere!


15 posted on 02/04/2009 1:36:22 AM PST by american_ranger (Never ever use DirecTV)
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To: SuperLuminal

You got that right. If I were wanting to wage war with the USA, would I want to go to an adjacent country with a wide-open border?

Nah. Too easy.


16 posted on 02/04/2009 3:00:44 AM PST by rusty millet
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