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Oman says it has accepted 10 inmates from the US prison at Guantanamo Bay ahead of President Barack Obama leaving office.
[...] Oman said it accepted the prisoners at Obama's request. It did not name the prisoners.
"To meet a request by the US government to assist in settling the issue of the detainees at Guantanamo, out of consideration of their humanitarian situation, 10 people released from that prison arrived in the Sultanate of Oman for a temporary residency," a foreign ministry statement said.
19 of the remaining 55 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay were cleared for release just days ago.
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Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo
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Remember Darwin; building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @06:13PM
Is because the people who allowed those situations to happen or directed those policies aren't rotting in gitmo or worse, undergoing the same treatment they performed on the past inmates with the same level and types of humiliation and dehumanization.
But then again creating a series of leaders for the next generation of terrorism may have been the plan all along, like previous American efforts in the 'War on Drugs', or as I prefer to call it 'Helping to Perpetuate the Drug War, because it wouldn't be self sustaining without our help!'
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @06:21PM
No, it's because 50% of the country think the solution to virtually every problem in the world is to nuke them and let god sort it out.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @08:36PM
I've been surprised how many people I know who think the solution to all the terrorism and whatnot in the world is to launch nuclear ICBMs at Mecca. A family friend has even suggested that they should do it during the Hajj. Their thinking is, apparently, without the idolatry of Mecca to distract them, the Muslims will all become Christians and then the problem will fix itself from then on because Christianity is somehow different. You know, instead of the real response of galvanizing a huge chunk of the world population against the U.S. and alienating the U.S. from its allies.