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| US To Free Some Guantanamo Detainees |
| 2002-10-23 |
| Source: CNN The United States is close to moving some of its prisoners captured in the war on terror out of its detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he has given his approval to ending the detention of a "small group of prisoners" he said were no longer of interest to the United States. "It's true that the process is working, and that there are some people likely to come out the other end of the chute," he said. No sense in keeping them just for the sake of keeping them. Once their usefulness is gone, they can be discarded... Rumsfeld said prisoners are normally questioned first to determine if they could provide useful intelligence. If not, he said, they would then be in a "different basket," and their further detention would be based on whether they could be prosecuted as criminals or whether they posed a security risk and "should be kept off the street." If none of those conditions apply, Rumsfeld said, "then the goal is to not have them. Let's be rid of them." We'd expect that there would be a pretty low proportion of them in that bunch, though... Any of the detainees released would be handed to another government with prior consultation, he said. If the other governments wanted to keep the men in custody themselves, that would be their decision. If not, Rumsfeld said, the prisoners would be freed. "Get the hell out and don't come back..." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #3 send them to iraq |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2002-10-23 20:52:45 |
| #2 They got some slugs down there that are useless foot-soldiers taking up beds. They gotta make room for the next batch of prisoners. You can fit 10 pounds of schiess in a 5 pound bag. |
| Posted by: John 2002-10-23 14:37:02 |
| #1 Is anyone else concerned at the thought of letting these Islamic mullah-fuggers go free if "another government" did't want them? (And who would want them - no one! That's who.) |
| Posted by: Aracona 2002-10-23 10:38:16 |