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Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo

posted by on Tuesday January 17 2017, @05:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the they've-been-waterboarded-enough dept.

driven writes:

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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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday January 18 2017, @03:33AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 18 2017, @03:33AM (#455225) Journal

    " Funny, maybe the middle-east was getting worse all on its own?"

    We'll never know, will we? Had we not invaded Iraq to start with, maybe the mideast would have gotten worse. But, there's no real reason to think that it would have.

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