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Gitmo Inmates Rejecting Repatriation in Algeria
NewsMax ^ | 11/29/2013 | By Sandy Fitzgerald

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: algeria; alqaeda; gitmo; repatriation

1 posted on 11/29/2013 5:02:50 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Repatriate them all back to Hell; two 230gr .45cal ACP HPs per muzzie head:

I'd volunteer to do it, N/C to anyone, 100% at my own expense.

2 posted on 11/29/2013 5:29:55 PM PST by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bad boys, bad boys, what’cha gonna do when they come for you, bad boys?


3 posted on 11/29/2013 5:30:13 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: SeekAndFind

Unless they represent a clear danger to the United States, repatriate them. Who cares what happens to them after that?


4 posted on 11/29/2013 5:32:03 PM PST by johniegrad
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To: SeekAndFind
Rule #1 of Prisons:

If the inmates refuse to leave, you're not doing it right.

5 posted on 11/29/2013 5:32:18 PM PST by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: SeekAndFind; Revolting cat!

They’ve had a pampered existence for years now. They want obamaphones, flatscreen tvs, air conditioning, a pleather couch, and a monthly check.


6 posted on 11/29/2013 6:14:13 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: a fool in paradise

7 posted on 11/29/2013 7:35:18 PM PST by FredZarguna (The sequel, thoroughly pointless, derivative, and boring was like all James Cameron "films.")
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To: ZOOKER

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.


8 posted on 11/29/2013 7:37:38 PM PST by FredZarguna (The sequel, thoroughly pointless, derivative, and boring was like all James Cameron "films.")
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To: carriage_hill

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?


9 posted on 11/30/2013 2:51:56 AM PST by lee martell
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To: lee martell

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.


10 posted on 11/30/2013 2:56:35 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: lee martell
This is what is looks like after firing; it does terrible damage inside whatever it hits:


11 posted on 11/30/2013 5:02:10 AM PST by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: lee martell
I was robbed and shot in 1974, with a non hollow-point thru my left hip, and still carry the .32cal bullet inside my pelvis, near the coccyx/spine. I was VERY lucky; missed all organs, bones, nerves, veins, arteries etc. If I'd been shot straight-on frontal, I'd be dead.


12 posted on 11/30/2013 5:17:01 AM PST by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: SeekAndFind
I hear there are a few empty bedrooms in the White Hut...

They can join Obama when he says his prayers five times a day...

13 posted on 11/30/2013 5:28:35 AM PST by Popman
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To: carriage_hill

That’s really close. I guess its best to stop further surgeries and learn to live on with a bullet still inside.


14 posted on 11/30/2013 8:57:46 AM PST by lee martell
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To: lee martell

Drs said best to leave it alone if it’s not causing any problems, so it stays where it is.


15 posted on 11/30/2013 9:23:33 AM PST by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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