JustRalph
11-21-2009, 04:00 AM
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/11/20/why-couldnt-obama-close-gitmo/
President Barack Obama is now confirming what many have long suspected: He will miss his January deadline to close the Guantanamo prison partly because he cannot persuade other nations to take the detainees.
Prisoners like Walid Abu Hijazi. The 29-year-old Palestinian is nearing his eighth year at Guantanamo even though the U.S. approved his release in February 2008. No one else has been willing to allow him, or dozens of others, into their territory.
This dilemma is one of the chief obstacles to closing the jail, according to lawyers and human rights groups who monitor U.S. detention policy. Most say Washington bears the main blame because it also refuses to accept prisoners on American soil.
Its very difficult to persuade third countries to accept the political or security risks involved, especially when the United States has been unwilling to accept that risk itself, said Matthew Waxman, a professor at Columbia Law School.
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Now the Plan is to ship them to Illinois and pay off his cronies with huge contracts to house these wingnuts while his Attorney General finds Lawyer friends to defend them paid by Government Stipends in the name of justice
President Barack Obama is now confirming what many have long suspected: He will miss his January deadline to close the Guantanamo prison partly because he cannot persuade other nations to take the detainees.
Prisoners like Walid Abu Hijazi. The 29-year-old Palestinian is nearing his eighth year at Guantanamo even though the U.S. approved his release in February 2008. No one else has been willing to allow him, or dozens of others, into their territory.
This dilemma is one of the chief obstacles to closing the jail, according to lawyers and human rights groups who monitor U.S. detention policy. Most say Washington bears the main blame because it also refuses to accept prisoners on American soil.
Its very difficult to persuade third countries to accept the political or security risks involved, especially when the United States has been unwilling to accept that risk itself, said Matthew Waxman, a professor at Columbia Law School.
More at the link
Now the Plan is to ship them to Illinois and pay off his cronies with huge contracts to house these wingnuts while his Attorney General finds Lawyer friends to defend them paid by Government Stipends in the name of justice