Posted on 11/29/2013 5:02:50 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Obama administration may be pushing to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, but that doesn't mean all the prisoners want to go home.
Two Algerian prisoners being held at the Cuban naval base are fighting against being transferred out because they fear Islamist extremists will try to kill them when they discover the repatriated men don't share their views on violence, a lawyer for one of them told The Wall Street Journal.
Robert Kirsch, who represents detainee Belkacem Bensayah, said sending him and the other Algerian detainee, Djamel Ameziane, back to the North African country is "the most callous, political abuse of these men," and is being done so the Obama administration can show progress on closing the prison.
The International Committee of the Red Cross has visited both prisoners for their exit interviews this week, said Kirsch, and has asked the United States to reconsider sending them back to Algeria, a claim the Red Cross has not yet confirmed.
They would be returning to Algeria as Islamist violence is growing there and in other North African countries. According to government reports, North Africa now houses 15 al-Qaida affiliates, according to a recent Forbes report, and there have more than 1,000 attacks in Algeria, LIbya, Tunisia, and Morocco since 2010.
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I'd volunteer to do it, N/C to anyone, 100% at my own expense.
Bad boys, bad boys, what’cha gonna do when they come for you, bad boys?
Unless they represent a clear danger to the United States, repatriate them. Who cares what happens to them after that?
If the inmates refuse to leave, you're not doing it right.
They’ve had a pampered existence for years now. They want obamaphones, flatscreen tvs, air conditioning, a pleather couch, and a monthly check.
Rule #1 of politics/religion: when you prefer a prison in somebody else’s country to freedom in your own, it’s time to try a new ideology.
Is that what a hollow point bullet looks like, once its been fired? Impressive and scary for me and other untrained folks. Are you experienced?
It is a hollow point bullet, but if you look closer, you will see it is still in the cartridge case: it has not been fired.
They can join Obama when he says his prayers five times a day...
That’s really close. I guess its best to stop further surgeries and learn to live on with a bullet still inside.
Drs said best to leave it alone if it’s not causing any problems, so it stays where it is.
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