Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/026256.php
May 24, 2009
Belgium to accept Gitmo inmates
Who will surely assimilate there about as well as their counterparts in DC. “Belgium still ready to take in Guantanamo inmates,” from GEO, May 22:
BRUSSELS: Belgium’s foreign minister says his government remains committed to taking in several detainees from Guantanamo Bay when the U.S. military prison closes down.
Speaking to La Premiere radio during his current trip to Washington, D.C., Karel De Gucht says it remains to be seen how many former inmates may be taken in.
De Gucht says in Friday’s broadcast that he spoke to the White House’s national security adviser Gen. James Jones about the issue. He says the matter is complicated by the free travel regulations within the European Union, which would allow the former prisoners to change their country of residence without informing the authorities.
Belgium first offered to accept ``a certain number’’ of prisoners freed from Guantanamo when Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited Brussels in March.
Posted by Raymond at May 24, 2009 12:00 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/05/25/italy.guantanamo/index.html
“PM: Italy will consider accepting Guantanamo detainees”
updated 7:39 p.m. EDT, Mon May 25, 2009
From Paula Newton
CNN
SNIPPET: “ROME, Italy (CNN) — Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Monday his country will consider accepting an unspecified number of detainees from the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said it was too soon to tell how many detainees his country may accept.”