Palau to take Uighur detainees from Guantanamo Bay

AP via Yahoo! ^

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...will accept up to 17 Chinese Muslims...

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In the 12th paragraph, AP finally deigns to tell its readers that this deal includes a $200,000,000 bribe. And this is to a country that we already basically keep afloat with money in the first place.

Look out Guam and Puerto Rico, you're getting some terrorist friends next. But they come with a big payday!

[wendy1946]

How about Bikini Island for the palisavages? The radioactivity is probably down enough for them to last a year or two....

[Erik Latranyi]

Of course, there is nothing preventing these terrorists from leaving Palau and attacking American interests.

[Stevenc131]

The story seems like something The Onion would come up with. These guys are going to be lounging around on a tropical island, living off the U.S. taxpayers. The wife and I would love to spend even a few days in Palau, but we can’t afford it.

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Of course, there is nothing preventing these terrorists from leaving Palau and attacking American interests.

You're right. In fact, it might be easier to enter the US from Palau than it is from Mexico:

Native-born Palauans are allowed to enter the United States without passports or visas.

[Nateman]

Did not congress deny funds for the closing of Gitmo? Maybe it’s just me but 200 million to get rid of prisoners to close Gitmo seems like congress has been ignored.

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Maybe it’s just me but 200 million to get rid of prisoners to close Gitmo...

It cost $200 million just to get rid of the handful of oddball Chinese muslims.

There's hundreds more, and I'm betting it would cost a lot more to unload our terrorist friends from Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Egypt, Pakistan, etc. if we could even find a buyer.

Those are the nut jobs that people think of blowing up embassys and planes and school busses. Chinese muslim terrorists have a weird kitsch appeal that make them easier to sell.

[DustyMoment]

Palau to take Uighur detainees from Guantanamo Bay

They'll rue the day . . . . . .

[depressed in 06]

At least, the Chinese will not have to go very far to pick them up.

[drpix]

"Native-born Palauans are allowed to enter the United States without passports or visas."

Native-born, natural-born! Sounds familiar.

Will the story of their liberator (BHO) inspire them to also clear this hurtle? One thing's for sure: This country's track record on protecting itself from this kind of fraud doesn't make me confident.

[Vigilanteman]

Of course, there is nothing preventing these terrorists from leaving Palau and attacking American interests.

Just an airline ticket through Guam or Manila, the two places on earth with direct flights to Palau.

[Red in Blue PA]

Cannot wait to hear the left when the first story of REAL torture inevitably comes out from these prisons.

Will wait to hear if there are cries of anguish or crickets.....my guess is on the latter.

[Hacklehead]

They did the TV show “survivor” there a few years ago. Is it true that if the inmates find an immunity idol, they are set free?

[drpix]

"Chinese muslim terrorists have a weird kitsch appeal that make them easier to sell."

And yet they ARE al Qaeda trained terrorists.

This means they have been indoctrinated to believe that ALL infidels are the enemy - not just the Chinese authorities, as the Obama regime and its party media would have us believe.

[bert]

American casualties in the battle for Palau

Invasion of Palau Islands
Navy 185 10 0 68
Marine 1171 101

1 681

That is 1256 dead total

[Tainan]

Palau has a real bad rep for being a sweat-shop clothing maker place. I think it was one of the places that Feinstein or Boxer or Pelosi specifically changed the law to allow them to receive US gov't money in spite of their very poor labor law record.
There are continuous stories about its poor record on treating migrant workers poorly.
Bottom line...it ain't no tropical paradise for people tricked into working there.