The remaining detainees need to be moved to existing and staffed facilities in the USA. Keeping the camp open is political. There is no rational purpose anymore. Even the military has no purpose in interrogating them. They have been at Gitmo too long to have important information.
Many of the detainees remaining can't be transferred because they are residents of places like Yemen where there is active extremist activities, so Mr. Fried's services aren't need there anymore. Hopefully, he will be an enhancement to the sanction issues with Syria and Iran to bring about a good outcome.
By | Associated Press – 5 hrs ago
Many of the detainees remaining can't be transferred because they are residents of places like Yemen where there is active extremist activities, so Mr. Fried's services aren't need there anymore. Hopefully, he will be an enhancement to the sanction issues with Syria and Iran to bring about a good outcome.
By | Associated Press – 5 hrs ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department (click here) has reassigned its special envoy for closing the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in another step away from one of President Barak Obama's first campaign promises.
Ambassador Daniel Fried is starting this week as the department's sanctions coordinator, according to an internal notice, focusing on governments like Iran and Syria.
And no one is replacing Fried as lead diplomat to persuade countries to resettle Guantanamo inmates approved for release. Instead, those responsibilities will now transfer to the department's legal office....
There is a GAO report stating there are currently 373 prisoners on USA soil convicted of terrorism. They are housed in 98 different facilities of which six are military. So, there are facilities capable of handling them. But, ah yes, the reason they are on Gitmo is because they would corrupt the thinking of existing inmates in USA facilities and cause increased attacks inside the country.
Right.
No daylight for the blind sheik
Tell the radicals he’s staying here, Obama
BY PETER KING / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Sunday, January 20, 2013
The Al Qaeda-linked terrorists (click here) who took hostages in Algeria reportedly demanded that we release the so-called blind sheik, Omar Abdel Rahman, in return for the lives of the captured Americans. This is the latest turn in a story that began 20 years ago and that hits close to home.
In February 1993, Islamist terrorists struck the World Trade Center. A bomb blasted a crater 100 feet wide and several stories deep, nearly toppling one tower into the other. A thousand New Yorkers were wounded, and six were killed. Among the dead was my neighbor, Monica Rodriguez Smith of Seaford, L.I.
Smith was seven months pregnant when she was murdered — on the day before she was to begin maternity leave from her job at the Port Authority. Her killers were radicalized by the imam of Brooklyn’s Al Farooq Mosque, the Egyptian-born blind sheik.
Rahman was arrested for plotting more attacks. He became the first man since the Civil War convicted of seditious conspiracy to wage war on the U.S....
The only terrorist emcampment I know of in North Carolina belongs to Blackwater or whatever they are called now.
