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Obama administration approves its largest single release of Guantanamo detainees ever
WaPo ^
| August 15, 2016
| Dan Lamothe
Posted on 08/15/2016 5:20:41 PM PDT by jazusamo
The Obama administration on Monday transferred 15 detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the United Arab Emirates, the largest release under the current president, the Pentagon said.
The transfer comes as the president faces a looming deadline to keep the promise he made on his first day in office to close the military prison. The detainee population there dipped under 100 for the first time in years in January with the release of 10 Yemeni prisoners, and will shrink to 61 with the latest transfer, underscoring a late effort to move toward closure.
The United States is grateful to the Government of the United Arab Emirates for its humanitarian gesture and willingness to support ongoing U.S. efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, the Pentagon said in a statement. The United States coordinated with the Government of the United Arab Emirates to ensure these transfers took place consistent with appropriate security and humane treatment measures.
The move was immediately condemned by Ed Royce (R.-Calif.), the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He accused the Obama administration in a statement of doubling down on policies that put American lives at risk and recklessness.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gitmo; gitmodetainees; guantanamo; obama; obamagitmodetainees; release; terrorists; treason; uae
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0bama is determined to recycle all terrorists from Gitmo before leaving office.
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posted on
08/15/2016 5:20:41 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
To: jazusamo
Trump should say and as soon as he is president they are going right back in gitmo!
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posted on
08/15/2016 5:22:21 PM PDT
by
pangaea6
To: jazusamo
Just wait until they get obamalaw. The prisons will be empty only whites in them. They will realease all Sharia/BLM violent felons upon us. Oh he will give GITMO to cuba too.
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posted on
08/15/2016 5:22:52 PM PDT
by
ColdOne
(poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~Goebbels-= White House Media.)
To: jazusamo
Just clearing them out before January.
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posted on
08/15/2016 5:23:14 PM PDT
by
bgill
(From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
To: jazusamo
Gitmo is a good place for the Obammy pres__ential library, alongside Fidel’s Tomb.
To: pangaea6
Trump should say and as soon as he is president they are going right back in gitmo! ... or just send a squad to kill them.
To: jazusamo
doubling down on policies that put American lives at risk................that is what he is in White House for. Killing off Americans. It is what sharia and soros do.
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posted on
08/15/2016 5:25:00 PM PDT
by
ColdOne
(poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~Goebbels-= White House Media.)
To: jazusamo
Can he actually close a military base without congressional approval?
I mean legally and physically? Can he hand the land back to Cuba?
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posted on
08/15/2016 5:25:09 PM PDT
by
Tenacious 1
(You couldn't pay me enough to be famous for being stupid!)
To: Tenacious 1
No, but who is going to stop him?
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posted on
08/15/2016 5:26:25 PM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
To: jazusamo
Wouldn’t it have been a whole lot easier and quicker just to execute them all?........
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posted on
08/15/2016 5:26:27 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
To: jazusamo
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posted on
08/15/2016 5:26:48 PM PDT
by
ColdOne
(poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~Goebbels-= White House Media.)
To: ColdOne
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posted on
08/15/2016 5:26:59 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
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To: bgill
Putting all of the terrorists back in business and will hand Gitmo back to Cuba as a good will gesture. He is the enemy within.
To: Tenacious 1
No one has yet stopped him.
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posted on
08/15/2016 5:27:06 PM PDT
by
Kakaze
(I want The Republic back !)
To: jazusamo
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posted on
08/15/2016 5:27:14 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: jazusamo
Trump should call out Ryan or let Pence do it...
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posted on
08/15/2016 5:27:59 PM PDT
by
CincyRichieRich
(Have Faith...If you have none, pray and ask Him for more.)
To: plain talk
Trump should say and as soon as he is president they are going right back in gitmo! ... or just send a squad to kill them.
Hussein Obama, America's FIRST Muslim President, is releasing GITMO prisoners so they can organize with ISIS and other Obama friendly terrorist organizations so they can return to America to kill your family, your friends and if things go right, the terrorists will get you and me too.
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posted on
08/15/2016 5:28:27 PM PDT
by
politicianslie
(What would a terroristdo if he were made POTUS? ANS: Exactly what Hussein Obama is doing!)
GO, TRUMP, GO!
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posted on
08/15/2016 5:29:19 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
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To: jazusamo
Once you realize they want as many Americans dead here it all makes sense. Americans don’t want sharia, madam killary or NWO. So they must be taken out. No votes from any of us for their utopia socialist dream
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posted on
08/15/2016 5:29:58 PM PDT
by
ColdOne
(poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~Goebbels-= White House Media.)
To: jazusamo
Dump them in DC, right next to the house Obama rented. Better yet, make them live in Obama’s house.
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posted on
08/15/2016 5:30:39 PM PDT
by
Chgogal
(A woman who votes for Hillary is voting with her vagina and not her brain.)
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