NOT ON OUR SOIL!
Posted on 11/08/2009 1:50:17 PM PST by STARWISE
Attorney General Eric Holder said Sunday that the administration will decide in the next week the fate of the remaining Guantanamo Bay detainees.
Holder, speaking to reporters at a conference in Doha, Qatar, said “We will by Nov the 16th make the determination as to who can be tried in the reformed military commissions, who can be tried in our article 3 federal courts.”
More than 200 detainees including five of the September 11 plotters are still being held at the U.S. military prison in Cuba, which President Obama has vowed to close by the end of his first year in office. But Holder conceded that “there has been some speculation that we will not make the January deadline,” which has proven difficult to meet as foreign governments have been reluctant to accept prisoners and American lawmakers have rejected administration attempts to transfer detainees to U.S. prisons.
Two administration officials tell Bloomberg that while the U.S. would like to transfer the approximately 100 Yemeni inmates to Saudi Arabian “rehabilitation” centers for radicals rather than to the unstable Yemen government, the Saudis are refusing to accept the inmates.
“No determination has been made as to where people will be housed pending trial,” said Holder. “We have a number of facilities that are under consideration.”
He added that “We will close the facility at Guantanamo. Getting this far as not been as an easy task and much work remains to be done and we will close Guantanamo."
NOT ON OUR SOIL!
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I wonder how Americans will feel about bringing the barbarians into the gates after what happened at Fort Hood? Most people didn’t want them brought to the US before the shooting.
It’s also extremely wasteful! We spent hundreds of millions of tax dollars fixing up Gitmo for these dogs!
Obama will put them in the DC jail if he has to,to make his deadline.
Hey that might be a good idea. I have seen the DC jail and Gitmo is a Hilton Hotel compared to that.
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