…..but no dice on sending the Uighurs back to China. Oh brother, the Obama Administration promised to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center by January 2010 and with the clock ticking they are sending some to home countries where they can readily rejoin their Islamic terrorist buddies.
I thought this was funny because it was in the China Post:
WASHINGTON — The United States has sent 12 inmates from the American military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Afghanistan, Yemen and an enclave in Somalia despite concerns about militant cells in those countries.
The U.S. Justice Department said on Sunday six Yemeni and four Afghan detainees were moved over the weekend to their home countries while two Somalis were transferred to regional authorities in Somaliland, a self-governing region of Somalia.
“These transfers were carried out under individual arrangements between the United States and relevant foreign authorities to ensure the transfers took place under appropriate security measures,” the department said.
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Representative Frank Wolf, the senior Republican on the House of Representatives appropriations subcommittee for the Justice Department, criticized the decision to send prisoners back to Yemen or other countries where U.S. officials believe al Qaeda is active.
“It’s a very bad decision by the Obama administration and by the Justice Department,” Wolf said in an interview. “I think it endangers our national security and endangers our citizens.”
So, you can bet the Chinese are now saying, give us our Uighurs back! Uighurs are Chinese Muslims and China wants them back to face punishment. This has got to be causing some heartburn in the State Department which originally wanted the Uighurs to be resettled as refugees right here in your town USA. Instead Obama is trying desperately to find countries we can pay to take the Uighurs since political pressure has kept them from coming to your neighborhood under the care of Catholic Charities (or the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, or World Relief, or Church World Service, etc.)
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