Is closing Gitmo a good decision ?
April 4, 2010 by
Filed under Yemen News
And do you know about Illinois prison who will house 100 Gitmo alumni to spread their teaching ?
While inmates of other nationalities have left Guantanamo in droves, roughly 90 Yemenis have been held at the U.S. military prison in Cuba for as long as seven years.
Steven Emerson, the executive director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism research group, said he would not be surprised if those former Guantanamo detainees were behind the airliner attack.
“Serving time in Gitmo has become a status thing for al-Qaida terrorists,” Emerson said. “Those that have served time have become appointed to top positions within the terrorist group once they make their way back to Yemen.”
A senior administration official said authorities still see closing the facility as a national security priority. While Obama has directed the U.S. to acquire a maximum-security prison in rural Illinois to hold as many as 100 Guantanamo detainees, he is counting on sending others back to their homelands or, in cases where that is impossible, to willing third-party countries.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091229/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_guantanamo_yemen
Of course not.
i really don’t care
there is a thousand other things more important like the economy for one
Closing Gitmo is a left wing Liberal propaganda gone wild. There was and never has been any problem with the prison at Gitmo. Even the Koran in the toilet was a scam.
But now, to appease the left, they are endangering the whole world, not just USA.
Yes. Try the ones we have evidence against, send the rest packing. It is the way things are done in a civilized world.
No. The campaign promise was based on the false assumption that the better we treat terrorists, the less likely they are to attack us. What a load of crap. None of the terrorist attacks from the Cole to the foreign Embassies’ bombings to the 1st World Trade Center to 9/11 were the result of American mistreatment of captured Islamic terrorists. Attacks are not even the result of so-called American Imperialism. The philosophy behind the fanatic agenda is religious – they believe they are doing Allah’s will by killing or converting all infidels – and this started hundreds of years ago.
So closing Gitmo, or giving them ‘rights’, or coddling them, will never change their ‘mandate’. The only way to protect ourselves is to eliminate them before they eliminate us – take no prisoners.
It’s the ONLY decision. Torture is illegal, you know. So is holding people for YEARS without even charging them with a crime.
Why do Republicans hate the law? It’s so bizarre.
yes it is.*
I would like for the U.S. to secretly convert an old oil tanker or similar large vessel for use as a prison ship, so these idiot terrorists simply disappear. Never disclose the location of the ship and never enter a port. When we’re finished with the terrorists, we could dump them over the side into shark-infested waters and claim, truthfully, that we “let them go”.
I love how someone here said that there is nothing wrong with the prison. Yeah, other than the fact that people have been kept there for years and years without being charged or tried!
Listen, if America wants to play world-policeman, they need to learn to obey the law themselves.
Of course it’s a bad decision!
But, it is just the latest in a series of bad decisions.
Gitmo is a perfect facility for its intended purpose.
It is not publicized, but the intention is to eventually
give Gitmo back to Cuba, in some misguided attempt
to appease Castro.
The Illinois prison transfer is simply payment to Illinois
Democrats like Durbin, Quinn, and Madigan, for their blind support of everything Obama. There is no reason to transfer those inmates, other than
a few jobs in exchange for a little less safety.
It is also not widely known that the Illinois prison already contains
over 300 convicted terrorists.
Why do we want these people on our soil ?
It’s a political move, it’s Obama’s way of making something created by Bush go away. I don’t think he really cares about anything more than making Bush look bad and his “side” look like good guys.
I want those people prosecuted and put away, period. I just want it done fast and at the least expense for us taxpayers.
Some of them are dangerous people and I fear they may be let go on technicalities.