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US eyes South Pacific to resettle Uighur detainees
Associated Press ^ | June 9, 2009 | MATTHEW LEE and DEVLIN BARRETT

Posted on 06/09/2009 12:45:21 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration is nearing agreement with the remote South Pacific island nation of Palau to resettle a group of Chinese Muslims now held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, The Associated Press has learned.

As they attempt to fulfill President Barack Obama's order to close the Guantanamo facility by early next year, administration officials are looking to Palau to accept some or all of the 17 Uighur detainees due to fierce congressional opposition to releasing them on U.S. soil, officials said.

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KEYWORDS: detainees; gitmo; obama; uighur
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Put them in pine box grove. Should fit them well.


21 posted on 06/09/2009 1:06:17 PM PDT by VicVega (Just call him President Tut for short.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

How much is that going to cost us? The prison at Guantanamo Bay is a 5 Star facility not the distortion you read about in the MSM. Everyone that has visited the place cannot find anything wrong. Now we are going to spend millions more to justify Obama’s hasty, vote getting decision and pronouncements on the campaign trail. This president is ripping the U.S. Constitution into shreds and our congress is letting him....Pelosi’s congress is America-adverse, but they champion terrorists. Not a one should be voted back into congress or senate.


22 posted on 06/09/2009 1:08:20 PM PDT by yoe
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To: rahbert

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Island

Baker Island has my vote. No water source other than rain. Blazing equatorial sun.


23 posted on 06/09/2009 1:10:02 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I thought a Uighur a white person pretending to be a ghetto gangsta?


24 posted on 06/09/2009 1:12:02 PM PDT by DogBarkTree (Support The American Tea Party)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Drop them off near where the USS Indianapolis went down. Problem solved.


25 posted on 06/09/2009 1:20:03 PM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: AirForceMom

LOL. Given your tagline, I think we should let you have them.

I’ll help.


26 posted on 06/09/2009 1:21:58 PM PDT by Bahbah
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To: Free ThinkerNY

reminds me of the days when Jimmy Carter went desperately shopping around the world for someone to take a dying Shah off his hands to appease the Iranian Militants. (and the winner is.....Panama!) Pathetic!


27 posted on 06/09/2009 1:22:50 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This is so pathetic. bo sluffs off his problems onto others. How typical.


28 posted on 06/09/2009 1:26:15 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: onedoug

Take them to Dulles..remove 17 passengers off a China bound plane and put them on. Send them home and let the Chinese handle them.


29 posted on 06/09/2009 1:28:20 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Obama is exploiting a poor third world country in order to keep a campaign promise that never should have been made.
30 posted on 06/09/2009 1:29:01 PM PDT by Red Dog #1
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To: Free ThinkerNY
It even has a place they can worship.


31 posted on 06/09/2009 1:30:51 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Palau is, interestingly, one of the few countries in the world which recognize Taiwan as the legitimate government of China. The people are warm, friendly and sensible-- they once considered a law to outlaw the wearing of neckties. There are millions of Americans far more deserving of being settled in a remote beautiful tropical country than these Muzzie terrorists.

This makes about as much sense as relocating a child rapist to the witness protection program next door to an elementary school.

32 posted on 06/09/2009 1:38:05 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

These are the terrorists trained by the Taliban to attack China. Any doubt that China will be able to infiltrate Palau and “take care” of these people once they are resettled?


33 posted on 06/09/2009 1:40:25 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Free ThinkerNY
How about Bikini atoll -
34 posted on 06/09/2009 1:40:29 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Baraq Hussein mohammed 0bama - Muslim Socialist Enemy of America!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I’m gonna wash those ughurs right outta my hair...


35 posted on 06/09/2009 1:52:41 PM PDT by Califreak (All hail the Islamic Avenger!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Will they be provided with life jackets or water wings?


36 posted on 06/09/2009 2:00:24 PM PDT by Beckwith (A "natural born citizen" -- two American citizen parents and born in the USA.)
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To: Beckwith

Chum suits.


37 posted on 06/09/2009 2:07:52 PM PDT by Califreak (All hail the Islamic Avenger!)
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To: keepitreal

Sure. My next dive trip to Palau, and one of these yokels will probably be my dive master. No thanks. Fire up the military tribunal & dispose of the charges against these guys. If they get ‘life’ send them back to China for execution of sentence — pardon the use of the term ‘execution’, but in their case who gives a sh—.


38 posted on 06/09/2009 3:01:29 PM PDT by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I have yet to hear anyone question the logic of closing a facility simply because they disagree with the policies of that facility's past.

In non-bizzarro world the answer would be simply to change the policies at the facility.

I guess been governed by superstition is consistent with being a Banana Republic.

39 posted on 06/09/2009 3:01:30 PM PDT by The Duke (I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
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To: Bahbah

Heehee, I welcome the help :), I’ll leave you some


40 posted on 06/09/2009 3:12:35 PM PDT by AirForceMom (Locked and loaded, and sharpening wooden stakes.)
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