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Al Jazeera and Fox News (Tor-friendly archived copy) report that fifteen captives have been released from the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp in Cuba. The prisoners, who were captured in Afghanistan and Yemen, are being transferred to the United Arab Emirates for settlement.
There remain 61 prisoners at the camp, of whom at least 19 have been cleared for release.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by sjames on Thursday August 18 2016, @07:33PM
So let's see the backlash. We haven't even managed to release the known innocent yet (and frankly, I'm not at all impressed with the lackadaisical time frame). There isn't even the beginning of the thought that we should be jailing the top officials who created the problem and even openly authorized and encouraged torture. Our fearless leaders haven't even come out and admitted it was a violation of everything our country stands for. The judges who bent the law into a pretzel to avoid calling the whole thing a crime and an egregious violation of the Constitution are still on the bench.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 18 2016, @10:39PM
Where do they get released to? That has been one of the problems here. For many of them, the countries to which they hold citizenships refuse to take them back.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Thursday August 18 2016, @11:47PM
A nice condo somewhere if necessary. Something that is not a prison. Even if they have to use something like Camp Cupcake as an interim facility. Something that recognizes that they are not convicted prisoners and have found themselves in a difficult situation as a direct result of our own illegal actions.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday August 19 2016, @05:16PM
> the countries to which they hold citizenships refuse to take them back.
Well, the same way that there are treaties saying you can't take away citizenship and create stateless people, teh rules pretty much say that you can't refuse to take your own citizens if they get expelled from elsewhere.
The US isn't forcing other countries to take their Gitmo-graduated innocents back, for political reasons (internal, diplomatic, and reparations), but technically that'd be the right answer.