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Will Biden Close Guantanamo 'War On Terror' Prison?
ibtimes.com ^ | 5/21/2021 | paul handley

Posted on 05/26/2021 7:25:57 PM PDT by bitt

The approved release of three detainees locked up in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for nearly two decades has raised expectations that President Joe Biden might try to close the notorious US military prison.

A high-level review board on May 17 signed off on the release of the oldest of the 40 so-called detainees still at Guantanamo, 73-year-old Pakistani businessman Saifullah Paracha, as well as two others.

Despite being arrested and secretly rendered to the US military prison on the Caribbean island between 2001 and 2003, the three were never charged -- like most of the others still there.

Tarred by accusations of extra-legal imprisonment, denial of rights and torture, Guantanamo has been a human rights shame for Washington since it was opened in January 2002 as a "War on Terror" prison for people suspected of connections to the September 11, 2001 attacks by Al-Qaeda.

Within a few years the United States had seized around 780 people, most on slim evidence of Al-Qaeda ties, and taken them to Guantanamo as war prisoners. Many underwent torture in secret CIA locations before their transfer to the prison.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; guantanamo

1 posted on 05/26/2021 7:25:57 PM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 05/26/2021 7:26:13 PM PDT by bitt (People who wonder if the glass is half empty or half full miss the point. The glass is refillable.)
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No. He’ll keep it open for us.


3 posted on 05/26/2021 7:27:21 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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No. He will just send us there.


4 posted on 05/26/2021 7:30:08 PM PDT by sport
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Actually, he need to close it, before HE is sent there. Enemies of the United States and of CIVILIZATION belong there.


5 posted on 05/26/2021 7:32:30 PM PDT by Richard Axtell ( NO*)
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To: HighSierra5

Bingo. He will keep it open for the “greatest threat the country has ever known” — freedom-loving, patriotic Americans.


6 posted on 05/26/2021 7:45:21 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session" - Gideon J. Tucker)
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To: bitt

This plan is all part of Obama’s third term. He was on the verge of closing it in 2015, but the Bengazi Raid in 2012, followed by Syrian conflicts were distractions and threw him off his game.


7 posted on 05/26/2021 7:46:43 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: HighSierra5

Exactly.


8 posted on 05/26/2021 7:48:26 PM PDT by Husker24 (Pp)
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To: bitt

If he thinks it would hurt the United States, he’ll do it.


9 posted on 05/26/2021 7:51:20 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Folks, if you haven't yet, please start an automatic monthly for Jim and his crew.)
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To: bitt

Sloe Joe is into the “green” agenda: Reduce, reuse, recycle.

Deplorables and Neanderthals beware.


10 posted on 05/26/2021 7:57:35 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: HighSierra5

First they came for the Jan 6 trespassers. But I wasn’t a trespasser so I did nothing.
Then they came for the Freepers...


11 posted on 05/26/2021 7:58:58 PM PDT by cockroach_magoo
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To: bitt

Biden ain’t doing ANYTHING...this is all O, Jarrett, and Rice...among others.


12 posted on 05/26/2021 8:12:32 PM PDT by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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To: bitt

He may be going there soon. 😏


13 posted on 05/26/2021 9:33:16 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

This side or the other side of eternity?


14 posted on 05/26/2021 9:46:38 PM PDT by sport
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To: bitt

It would be a great place to retain illegals instead of bussing them to Tennessee or Michigan. That would make it easier to ensure they show up for court dates and quarantine the ones with diseases.

And leave the gate to Cuba open in case they want better health care. One way only.


15 posted on 05/26/2021 10:06:13 PM PDT by Bernard (“When once the guardian angel has taken flight, everything is lost”. – William H. Seward, 1/12/1861)
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Will Biden Close Guantanamo ‘War On Terror’ Prison?, >>>>>>>>

Why of course, the ghost of genocidal maniac Che Guevara demands it!

President Trump moves the US COnsulate to the israeli Capital, Jerusalem.

Biden moves Guantanamo into the Caribbean Sea. Biden and his leftist ideologues wants to have Red China nukes in Cuba aimed at the heart of America, 5 minutes away.


16 posted on 05/27/2021 2:21:15 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: bitt

If closing Guantanamo will hurt the United States, then Biden will close it.

If closing Guantanamo would help the United States, Biden will leave it open.


17 posted on 05/27/2021 7:46:02 AM PDT by GOPJ (Liz Cheney: There was NO VOTER FRAUD Winston. YOU agree Winston? How many fingers Winston...?)
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