Some Dems Want Gitmo-To-Yemen Transfers Stopped (but Obama adviser says transfers to go forward)

NY TIMES ^ | 1/3/2010 | AP

[tobyhill]

Some Democratic lawmakers who support closing Guantanamo Bay say the U.S. should reconsider whether to repatriate suspected terrorists from Yemen, given the al-Qaida activity in the poor Arab nation.

President Barack Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, said Sunday the transfers will continue if the administration deems them warranted.

Six Yemenis returned last month were released after the government there determined they were not a threat, officials in Yemen told The Associated Press.

President Barack Obama has said an al-Qaida group operating in Yemen apparently was behind the plot to bring down a U.S.-bound airliner on Christmas Day. The U.S. and Britain closed their embassies in Yemen on Sunday in response to threats from al-Qaida.

[cranked]

But they will close the embassy in Yemen.....

Jack Squat administration stuck on stupid.

[tobyhill]

***The lawyer, Ahmed al-Arman, said the six were freed from Yemeni custody over the last week, with the last two freed Saturday night. They were handed over to their families.***

[ColdOne]

Obama,,,,,,,,Treason.

[Cacique]

Not stuck on stupid, Obama is a sympathizer of jihad and the rest of his administration is made up of nihilists.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

And prisons in Yemen are escape-proof, right? I mean, ya can’t just dig a tunnel to a nearby mosque and get away, can you? Dirt floored prisons? Nah!!!!!!

[maddog55]

[Carry_Okie]

If what it means is that we get them off our tax payers' dole, send them to Yemen, and then kill them there, it might be a good deal.

[cranked]

In other words, a sympathizer administrtion stuck on stupid being nihilism is stupid.