Posted on 02/05/2009 3:38:08 PM PST by kristinn
President Obama will gather tomorrow with victims and families of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and U.S.S. Cole bombing for a face-to-face meeting as his administration struggles to decide how to handle detainees at Guatanamo Bay, Cuba, several of those invited said.
The previously undisclosed meeting at the White House tomorrow afternoon will give the new president a chance to explain his decision to close the controversial prison facility where the U.S. has placed many suspected terrorists since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Obama has been assailed by conservative critics who say the decision to close the facility within a year will lead to putting many of those terrorists back on the street. In a recent interview, former vice president Dick Cheney, an architect of the Bush administration's war on terror, criticized the decision as reckless.
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One 9/11 activist, who declined to be identified talking about the meeting, said "fireworks" are likely at the gathering because it will include both relatives who oppose and those who support Obama's plan to close Guantanamo Bay. "There's been some noise that some families don't like the idea and others do, so this is a chance to discuss that," the activist said.
Jim Riches, a retired New York firefighter whose son, Jimmy Riches, died in the 9-11 attacks, said in an interview Thursday that he wants to hear directly from President Obama what the government intends to do with the prisoners.
"I want to know, are they going to drop the charges? Are they going to try them in another court?" he said. "I want to let them know that these men are dangerous."
Riches praised Obama for agreeing to a meeting so soon after taking office.
(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...
Fox News reporting the commander of the U.S.S. Cole and other surviving crew members will be at the 3:30 p.m. meeting.
I’ll get banned if I post what I just said out loud to my husband about this.
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Plans to close Gitmo anger 9/11 victims’ families
AP via WTOP.com News ^ | January 20, 2009 - 3:32am | By BEN FOX,
Posted on January 20, 2009 2:48:21 AM PST by Cindy
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - Plans to close Guantanamo are not sitting well with the Sept. 11 victims’ relatives who sat stunned while two alleged terrorists declared they were proud of their role in the plot.
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Riiiiiiiiight.
May they ream him a new one.
So I realize most of us cannot relate to losing someone like that, and it obviously can get you a meeting with the President at his pleasure of course.
But what about the many millions of th e rest of us that do not EVER WANT TO RELATE TO LOSING SOMEONE LIKE THAT???
Does our voice not matter too?
Of all the...talk to the families and release the criminal.
Now I KNOW he’s schizo. We never did see those medical/psych records did we?
Like Obama really gives a rat’s ass about what the families think pro or con on this.
This meeting is just for pure political cover.
I wonder if Obama will have them remove their shoes before he enters the room. Shoe throwing has become quite popular these days :-)
I really don’t know how that bastard can sleep at night. He’s probably a sociopath, no conscience.
Those are probably in a vault with his original BC. We have a psycho Kenyan in the oval office.
I wonder how far into the meeting that Obama will remind them that he won the election?
Not as dangerous as Rush Limabaugh is to POUTUS MUZZIE HUSSEIN FROM KENYA.
I wonder what good this foreign born imbecile thinks will come from upsetting these folks to the point of violence.
He had better line up extra security.
I’m sure it will be a quick meeting b/c 0bama has afternoon prayers at the mosque. Any word yet on when the Washington Monument will be made into a minaret?
Maybe we’ll get lucky and Cindy Sheehan will camp out in Lafayette Park demanding Obama meet with her.
Obama will apologize for Bush and the Neocon’s for bombing the WTC
President Obama Likely to Order Military Commission Charges
Dropped Against Terrorist Suspect
ABC Political Punch | February 05, 2009 | Jake Tapper
Posted on 02/05/2009 3:24:14 PM PST by Smokeyblue
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2179278/posts
ABC News:
“Obama Likely to Order Charges Dropped
Against Alleged U.S.S. Cole Bombing Mastermind”
ABC Newsw e-mail | 5 Feb 09 | ABCNews.com
Posted on 02/05/2009 3:24:25 PM PST by seanmerc
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2179279/posts
If any of those folks ask Obummer a hard question, they’ll get the Joe The Plumber treatment from the MSM.
WHERE ARE THE JERSEY GIRLS?!?!?!?!
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