GTMO: Should the US be sending GTMO detainees back to their countries of origin?
April 15, 2010 by
Filed under Yemen News
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BJ0YJ20091220?type=politicsNews%3FfeedType%3DRSS&feedName=politicsNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FPoliticsNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Politics+News%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo
Six Yemeni and four Afghan detainees were sent over the weekend to their home countries while two Somalis were transferred to regional authorities in Somaliland, an self-governing region within Somalia, the department said.
The transfers are the latest from the controversial prison President Barack Obama has pledged to close next month, but that deadline will likely [...]
How come Obama insists on releasing more GITMO terrorists back to Yemen?
March 17, 2010 by
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I’m the first of many, warns airline ‘bomber’ Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
A global search for accomplices in the Detroit airliner plot was under way yesterday after an al-Qaeda group based in Yemen claimed responsibility for the operation and the would-be bomber was reported to have said that more attacks were being planned.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6969645.ece
Could it be that [...]
Do you think Obama should change his plans to release anymore Gitmo prisoners back to Yemen?
March 3, 2010 by
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“Roughly 90 of the detainees at Guantanamo are from Yemen, where al-Qaeda cells have launched attacks and destabilized the government.”
“The Obama administration has transferred seven Yemeni detainees from the prison back to Yemen. Six of those went home this month. The Bush administration released 14 Yemenis.”
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-12-29-gitmo_N.htm?csp=34