Posted on 06/13/2009 12:41:22 PM PDT by Son House
FOX News spotted the newly freed detainees at a guest cottage complex on the island without security or electronic monitoring, but their attorney said they will have to periodically check in with local police
The four of the Chinese Muslims, or Uighurs, released to Bermuda from the Guantanamo Bay prison told FOX News that they are innocent, glad to be free and hold no grudges against the United States for their captivity.
"We are not terrorists," they told FOX News with the help of a translator. "We don't know what Al Qaeda is. We don't know Usama bin Laden.
The four, who range from 31 to 38 years old, also said they think life under oppressive rule in China, where they face persecution, is worse than life at Guantanamo.
Their attorney says the Uighurs are determined to stay in Bermuda as part of a guest worker program. There is a provision in that program that in limited circumstances allows guest workers to get Bermudian citizenship.
On Friday, some members of the Bermudan government who said they'd not been informed of the transfer questioned the wisdom of moving the inmates to the island located 640 miles off the coast of North Carolina, saying it could hurt tourism, which is Bermuda's chief industry.
But the Bermudan government defended its decision to take the Uighurs, whom the U.S. feared would face torture if sent back to China.
The Uighurs told FOX News that they plan to make their home in Bermuda, probably working first in some form of manual labor. They also may open a restaurant and look forward to swimming and fishing.
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LOl . . . this is too much. Leftist chickens a-comin’ home to rooooost
this move was a total slap in the face of our best ally the UK.
I would be interested in the bank account of the prem over in Bermuda .
so bozo files these men to there and then drops them off with no know;ledge to the UK Govt
If the 17 guys were innocent in the first place, where and when and why did the US pick them up. Had to be in Iraq or Afghanistan, right? So they were just hanging out eating dim sum at a local Taliban hang out?
look forward to fishing etc
this is pathetic
Oh, wow, the Uighurs are not following the US state run media script of Gitmo. Even terrorist are exposing our media as liars.
They are (partly) descended from these folks:
Are these the same guys that the Germans wouldn’t take?
China would probably execute them
*sigh*
I think they were caught in Afghanistan and were at a terror camp or something
Thank you.
You know, that’s what gets left out of every story: How did these guys get to GTMO?
Four very lucky Uighurs. Talk about landing on your feet.
Eventually they will work theirselves to the United States and began killing again.
These guys musta watched Hogan’s Heroes re-runs while at Gitmo. They are using the Sgt Schultz defense. “I know nothing, I saw nothing”!
Thank you. Interesting read. As I thought, not entirely innocent as we have been lead to believe.
Maybe it would have been in our best interest to send them back to China and let them deal with them.
Wonder if China plans to retrieve these guys any time soon.
Supposedly we have a law that prohibits us from sending them back to China.
I say supposedly cause I’m not a lawyer and I don’t know if this is a clear law or some weird Obamoid lawyer interpretation of it.
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