Posted on 06/16/2009 9:42:26 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
US lawmakers sought a review of the US listing of a Uighur Muslim group in northwestern China as "terrorist," accusing US authorities of relying on intelligence from Beijing.
The call came after the United States, defying China, freed four Uighurs held for years at the controversial "war on terror" camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and the Atlantic island of Bermuda took them in.
Thirteen more Uighurs -- all cleared of wrongdoing by US authorities -- are awaiting release from Guantanamo. China demands them, saying they belong to the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), charges they and US officials deny.
Congressman Bill Delahunt called a hearing to examine why the United States classified ETIM as a terrorist group. He said the US official blacklisting blamed ETIM for 162 deaths in 200 incidents -- the same figures given by China for an array of attacks pinned on Uighur militants.
"It appears to me that we took substantial intelligence information from the communist Chinese regime and then used that questionable evidence as our own," said Delahunt, a member of President Barack Obama's Democratic Party.
He called for a review of how the United States blacklists groups, saying: "We should never forget that flawed intelligence played a key role in the decision to invade Iraq."
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When you look at what the buffoons in Washington are doing, you’d never know we are in “the worst financial crisis since The Great Depression.”
I guess them admitted to attending terrorist camps means nothing. More stupidity, more denial.
I want the administration to tell us “why” they are in Bermuda......
Oh, I see. If you want to stifle the outrage over terrorists being “banished” to a tropical island, you simply decide that they are no longer terrorists. Man that Obama is a genius.
IIRC, Bermuda was the only country that would accept them.
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