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| U.S. Says 'no' to Handing Guantanamo Back to Cuba |
| 2015-01-30 |
| [AnNahar] Efforts to improve ties with Cuba will not extend to handing control of Guantanamo Bay back to Havana, the White House said on Thursday. "The president does believe that the prison at Guantanamo Bay should be closed down," said White House front man Josh Earnest. "But the naval base is not something that we wish to be closed." The base, on Cuba's southeastern tip, is currently the site of a large naval base as well as a deeply controversial prison used to detain terror suspects without trial. Cuban President Compañero Raul Castro ...Fidel's little brother... on Wednesday said handing back control of the 45 square mile (116 square kilometer) site was a precondition for normalizing ties with the United States. Castro and Obama simultaneously announced on December 17 their intention to end a half-century of animosity and normalize ties that broke off in 1961. The U.S. took control of Guantanamo following a treaty in 1903. Obama has repeatedly stated that holding prisoners at Guantanamo is a recruiting tool for terror groups, but has failed to close down the facility. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #8 "....deeply controversial prison...."?? "....used to detain [enemy combatants] without trial....." That's better. |
| Posted by: PeterCarroll 2015-01-30 18:55 |
| #7 Translation: Raul and his bruddah didn't want normalization, at least not quickly. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-01-30 17:13 |
| #6 Fidel/Raul, you didn't build that. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2015-01-30 15:27 |
| #5 It never was part of any government who ruled Cuba, except the USA after Spain's rule. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2015-01-30 09:50 |
| #4 Rename it Obama Bay and return it the last day in office with an executive order is my prediction. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2015-01-30 06:58 |
| #3 If you like your Naval Base at Guantanamo you can keep it. No problem. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-01-30 05:56 |
| #2 And when this administration says something, they mean it! |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-01-30 03:45 |
| #1 If the chance of being held in Guantanamo is somehow a recruiting tool for terrorists, they must be pretty good salesmen. We must be really drilling the hell out of their quarterly bonus by releasing all these guys. Maybe we ought to really screw the recruiters and blow our own brains out. That would show them. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2015-01-30 00:59 |