Holder Pleads With Europeans to Take Gitmo Detainees

FoxNews ^ | Sunday, April 26, 2009

[Joiseydude]

WASHINGTON -- It's more than just a tough sell for Attorney General Eric Holder this week to persuade European allies to accept Guantanamo detainees.

"It's a 'mission impossible' for him, I think," one German analyst said ahead of Holder's arrival in London on Sunday.

President Obama has set a goal of closing the U.S. military detention facility in Cuba by this coming January, and his administration is edging toward taking some prisoners to the U.S., most likely to Virginia. They are Chinese Muslims known as Uighurs. Their supporters claim say they never should have been at Guantanamo in the first place.

[TigersEye]

Call them cowards, Eric. That ought to soften them up.

[Cindy]

JIHAD WATCH.org (LOS ANGELES TIMES): "Obama Administration wants to settle Muslims freed from Gitmo in American communities to "set an example, helping to persuade other nations to accept Guantanamo detainees too"" (April 24, 2009)

JIHAD WATCH.org (CHICAGO TRIBUNE): "RELAX: CHINESE MUSLIM GITMO INMATES TO BE FREED IN U.S." (April 24, 2009)

HOT AIR.com: "Good News: Obama to release Chinese Muslim Gitmo Detainees into U.S." (April 24, 2009)

HUMAN EVENTS.com: "THE UIGHURS AND THE 'TORTURE' MEMOS" by Jed Babbin (SNIPPET: "White House lawyers are refusing to accept the findings of an inter-agency committee that the Uighur Chinese Muslims held at Guantanamo Bay are too dangerous to release inside the U.S., according to Pentagon sources familiar with the action. This action -- coupled with the release of previously top secret legal opinions on harsh interrogation methods -- demonstrates the Obama administration's willingness to ignore reality.") (April 20, 2009)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): "CHINA WARNS AGAINST PROVIDING ASYLUM TO CHINESE JIHADIS RELEASED FROM GITMO" (February 6, 2009)

[Cindy]

Background Links:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2167923/posts

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http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/uighurs/index?tab=articles

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Interesting Reading:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2191075/posts

[babyfreep]

If they want to be proper about it...fly them to Afghanistan, give them all unloaded AK-47s, have them get off the plane and our guys can shoot them like they would any other Al Qaida “men who cause disasters”.