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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: TheSarge on January 12, 2009, 03:21:42 PM
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President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to issue an executive order his first week in office -- and perhaps his first day -- to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, according to two presidential transition team advisers.
It's unlikely the detention facility at the Navy base in Cuba will be closed anytime soon. In an interview last weekend, Obama said it would be "a challenge" to close it even within the first 100 days of his administration.
But the order, which one adviser said could be issued as early as Jan. 20, would start the process of deciding what to do with the estimated 250 Al Qaeda and Taliban suspects and potential witnesses who are being held there. Most have not been charged with a crime.
The Guantanamo directive would be one of a series of executive orders Obama is planning to issue shortly after he takes office next Tuesday, according to the two advisers. Also expected is an executive order about certain interrogation methods, but details were not immediately available Monday.
The advisers spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the orders that have not yet been finalized.
Obama transition team spokeswoman Brooke Anderson declined comment Monday.
The two advisers said the executive order will direct the new administration to look at each of the cases of the Guantanamo detainees to see whether they can be released or if they should still be held -- and if so, where.
Many of the Guantanamo detainees are cleared for release, and others could be sent back to their native countries and held there. But many nations have resisted Bush administration efforts to repatriate the prisoners back home. Both Obama advisers said it's hoped that nations that had initially resisted taking detainees will be more willing to do so after dealing with the new administration.
What remains the thorniest issue for Obama, the advisers said, is what to do with the rest of the prisoners -- including at least 15 so-called "high value detainees" considered among the most dangerous there.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/12/obama-issue-order-closing-gitmo-week-office/
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Christ almighty... :thatsright:
If you live in a big city... I'd really start boning up on your anti-terrorism training.
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Send them to Great Meadow correctional facility about 20 miles from here and I bet they will be begging to go back to Guantanamo before a couple days are over.
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why send them in with normal, decent criminals? have one built for them in the wilds of alaska... did i mention the prisoners would be doing the labor? in november?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's issuing orders to close it down sometime between now and never....no dates.....typical Obamain statement.
Reminds me of the Pharoah in the "Ten Commandments" , with a slight twist, "So let it be written. So let it be forgotten".
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's issuing orders to close it down sometime between now and never....no dates.....typical Obamain statement.
Reminds me of the Pharoah in the "Ten Commandments" , with a slight twist, "So let it be written. So let it be forgotten".
Exactly. It amuses me how the Left For Another America will have to reconcile with the fact that Gitmo didn't come about just to be mean and unjust.
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Well, then let's hope President Bush gives Obama a reason to close it...
...by ordering the firing squad execution of all terrorist prisoners before Obama is inaugurated. Obama will certainly be justified in closing a prison with no inmates.
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Well, then let's hope President Bush gives Obama a reason to close it...
...by ordering the firing squad execution of all terrorist prisoners before Obama is inaugurated. Obama will certainly be justified in closing a prison with no inmates.
Firing squads are too "honorable" an end for them. Unless the bullets were dipped in freshly-excreted pig feces immediately before being chambered.
Hanging, drawing, and quartering would be much more appropriate. But, alas, without a snowball's chance in Hell of ever happening.
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why send them in with normal, decent criminals? have one built for them in the wilds of alaska... did i mention the prisoners would be doing the labor? in november?
I think a prison outside McMurdo would be just right for em.....................tropical dress required
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I think a prison outside McMurdo would be just right for em.....................tropical dress required
we may differ on the specifics, but i like your style
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utterly pointless thing to do
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did anyone see Hannity playing the Big Zero's sit down with George Stephanowhatshisname on this issue? :-)
I'll have to see if I can find it.
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Obama can't just close Gitmo. It's not all that simple. Anyways, all the prisoners need to be put in crates and dumped into the Mariana Trench. :evillaugh:
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These are probably all the detainees who's country of origin WOULDN'T take them back.
I say imprisonment is too good for them.
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Christ almighty... :thatsright:
If you live in a big city... I'd really start boning up on your anti-terrorism training.
I look at it this way--the heat from the nuclear blast in Boston might melt the snow off my roof. Maybe.