Posted on 12/31/2009 6:54:01 PM PST by rdl6989
KANEOHE, Hawaii — The attempted bombing of an American passenger plane on Christmas Day could greatly complicate President Obama’s efforts to close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, as lawmakers in both parties call on the administration to rethink its approach.
The task of determining what to do with the detainees held at Guantánamo has already proved so daunting that Mr. Obama is poised to miss his self-imposed one-year deadline for shuttering the prison by Jan. 22. But evidence that Al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen was behind last week’s failed plane attack will make closing the center even harder since nearly half the remaining detainees are from Yemen.
“The current threats emanating from Yemen dramatically increase the political costs of closing Guantánamo,” said Matthew Waxman, a former top Pentagon official who handled detainee issues and supports trying to close the detention center. “To close it anytime soon, the Obama administration either has to send many detainees back to Yemen — widely viewed as a major terrorist haven — or it brings many of them into the U.S. for continued detention without trial.”
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If so, it’ll be Bush’s fault.
Obama should just appoint the detainees ot his cabinet and be done with it. Hell, they would likely be less anti-American than his current cabinet.
I should hope so.
No S*** Sherlock!
Uh Oh. The community organizer in chief may have to rethink his grand scheme on Noble Peace Prize foreign policy...
The whole Gitmo thing was a manufactured crisis from the beginning.
yea let em go so they can kill more Americans,,way to go obozo~~~~
What a d00fus.
Wait until that city in Illinois near the prison starts seeing moslems move in to the area so they can be near their loved ones and vist them on weekends.
Gonna get a little on the testy side when the ‘Rats of DC return to their ruffled nest in a few weeks. Let the rodent fur fly....
Sure hope so.
Yes Bush and Dick were right.
There aren't that many "loved ones" left. Obama has been releasing them right and left.
Another reason the Feds need this prison is to lock up those of us who doesn't willingly sign up for Obamacare.
ithin 30 days of the transfer moslems will be moving intio the area and visiting the prison. US prisoners have the right to visitors. This whole thing will be like a ball of twine until we can’t undo the problem.
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