Posted on 09/28/2009 1:08:32 PM PDT by RobinMasters
An Obama administration task force has so far cleared 75 of the remaining 223 Guantanamo prisoners for release as part of its effort to close the detention camp, a military spokesman said on Monday.
The review team is examining each prisoner's case to decide who will be held for trial and who can be sent home or resettled in other nations.
President Barack Obama had set a January 22 deadline to shut the detention camp although Defense Secretary Robert Gates told ABC News in an interview broadcast on Sunday that "it's going to be tough" to meet the deadline.
As the review team makes its decisions, military officials at Guantanamo post an updated list in the camps to let the prisoners know how many from each nation have been judged free to go.
"It was an opportunity to just provide better communication," said Navy Lieutenant Commander Brook DeWalt, a spokesman for the Guantanamo detention operation. "There's a lot of information out there and you get a lot of things from a lot of different angles. It helps put it in a more succinct context for them."
The prisoners are well aware of Obama's announcement that the camp would be closed and have heard piecemeal information from their lawyers and relatives during phone calls arranged by the International Committee of the Red Cross, he said.
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Ping.
Gives each released prisoner a $500 gift certificate to Hair World. (sarc)
Now I feel so safe.........................Not!
How many are coming here?
So when any of these vermin kill some of our kids, is anyone in the ozero administration going to be held accountable?
These folks need caneing.
So I assume we’re releasing the FRIENDLY terrorists!
LOL! You’re both wrong. It’s “caning”. Or possibly, McCaining.
Re-open Alcatraz as a terrorist housing facility. The government already owns it. OR, give them an old barge. Give them food and water and set them adrift in an undisclosed location in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. No radios or cell phones. This way, we have complete deniability and we’ll never know what happened to them.
It'll be Bush's fault... if we hadn't put these guys in GTMO in the first place, they would have become peaceful monks or something... we made them into bad people!
Shades of Carter and Iran.
Thanks, Zero, you treasonist bastard.
Very good to be an Indonesian King.
You da man Hussein!
Relax, they only want to kill infidels.
You do not understand!
Obozo has promised Fidel that he can have GITMO back by that deadline. He does not care if the people he releases are dangerous.
This is about professional Courtesy from One Commie to Another Commie.
Sorry, that has been running around in my head every time I hear about releasing the terrorists from Guantanamo Bay.
Most were captured in Afghanistan and Pakistan after U.S. troops invaded Afghanistan in 2001
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