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China demands return of Guantanamo detainees
2006-04-21
China urged the United States on Thursday to return Chinese nationals held at Guantanamo Bay after the US Supreme Court declined to hear whether two Chinese Muslims held at the detention camp could be freed. Washington should "repatriate Chinese-nationality terror suspects held at Guantanamo as quickly as possible", the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Beijing's renewed call to take back the detainees came after two of them, Abu Bakker Qassim and Adel Abdu Al-Hakim, failed to persuade the Supreme Court to review a lower court decision that a federal court cannot provide them any relief. The two belong to the predominantly Muslim Uighur ethnic group.
Go ahead and dump them. No skin off our collective fore. If they come down with one-round splitting headaches, my heart's not gonna bleed.
Posted by:Fred

#8  Chaudhry Rehmat Ali, who died on February 3, 1951, is currently buried in Cambridge. Once his coffin is in Pakistan, it will be buried in a formal ceremony.

On January 28, 1933, Chaudhry Rehmat Ali published the historic pamphlet ‘Now or Never; Are we to live or perish forever?’. He coined the word ‘Pakistan’ for the then 30 million Muslims who lived in the five northern states of India: Punjab, North West Frontier (Afghan) Province, Kashmir, Sindh and Balochistan.
Posted by: john   2006-04-21 19:11  

#7  P A K I S TAN

coined by Chaudhry Rehmat Ali

Punjab, Afgania (North West Frontier Province), Kashmir, Indus-Sindh, and Balochistan.


Rehmat Ali’s concept of Pakistan was nebulous, impractical and fantasy-ridden. It was to include the entire northwest of India, Kashmir, the Kathiawar peninsula, Kutch, and several enclaves deep within UP, including Delhi and Lucknow. There were to be two independent Muslim states besides Pakistan: Bangistan comprising Bengal and Assam in the east and Osmanistan in the south. These two were to form a federation with Pakistan. The 243 principalities or Rajwaras were to be divided among caste Hindus and “others” and then herded together in a ghetto called Hanoodia. As for the Sikhs, they were to be pushed into an enclave called Sikhia. Other races and religions were to inhabit an encampment by the name of Hanadika. Every non-Muslim was to remain subservient to the master race he called “The Paks”. And yes, the subcontinent was to be renamed Dinia. He did not say how he was going to bring all that about.

http://www.khalidhasan.net/fridaytimes/2004-10-15.htm
Posted by: john   2006-04-21 18:29  

#6  I thought it meant 'stan of the Poor.
Posted by: 6   2006-04-21 17:42  

#5  It's weird that they decided to expand their circle of enemies and take on Uncle Sam by joining al Qaeda.

They didn't join Al Qaeda.

They went for jihadi training. These camps were run by the Pakistani ISI.

Whenever China complained, Pak officers would shoot a couple token Uigars. Training of muslim brethern continued though. Later Pak Tribals sold some of these Uigars to the US.

When Clinton lobbed cruise missiles at an "Al Qaeda" camp being visited by Bin Laden, the missiles missed him by a few hours but killed a lot of Pak Army officers.
It was a Pak terror training camp.

The Chinese ended up in Gitmo because they were caught up in the Pak jihadi production system, which has world wide scope - London , Madrid, New York, Delhi....

After all, the the official motto of the Pakistan Army is Iman-Taqwa-Jihad fi sabilillah
Faith, Fear of Allah, Jihad in the way of Allah.

The Pak army is sworn to jihad. Is it any wonder that its produces them by the thousands?

Pakistan's official name is "The Islamic Republic of Pakistan"
It was the first "islamic republic" ever created.

Is it any wonder that it is now rabidly islamist?
Posted by: john   2006-04-21 14:49  

#4  Return them there...without regrets or sense of loss.
Posted by: Duh!   2006-04-21 08:40  

#3  Turn them over "you are against terror or you are supporting it" I think is how it goes.
Posted by: SPoD   2006-04-21 02:21  

#2  Zhang, I think what happens is Uighirs, Chechens, and others like Uzbecks who are involved in terrorism and related activities are forced to flee their homelands and become Jihadis for hire in places like Afghanistan (Taliban era).
Posted by: phil_b   2006-04-21 01:49  

#1  I don't get it. Uighurs have a powerful enough enemy in China. It's weird that they decided to expand their circle of enemies and take on Uncle Sam by joining al Qaeda. Talk about never missing an opportunity to miss and opportunity.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2006-04-21 00:13  

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