U.S. Makes Progress on Resettling Detainees

Source: Washington Post

The Obama administration has secured commitments from nearly a dozen countries willing to accept detainees from Guantanamo Bay and is increasingly confident about its ability to transfer a large majority of the prisoners who have been cleared for release, according to U.S. and foreign officials.

Six European Union countries -- Britain, France, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain -- have accepted or publicly agreed to take detainees. Four E.U. countries have privately told the administration that they are committed to resettling detainees, and five other E.U. nations are considering taking some, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the negotiations.

Two E.U. countries will soon send delegations to the U.S. military prison in Cuba to assess detainees held there.

The administration's progress in resettling the approximately 80 detainees cleared for release so far could ease the politics and logistics of moving terrorism suspects to American soil. Some lawmakers fiercely oppose bringing any detainees to the United States, but a substantially reduced detainee population could bolster the administration's effort to secure a prison location in this country.



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The US needs to abandon this albatross at Guantanamo.

is to get rid of Gitmo.

other countries shouldn't have to clean up the mess we made. Also, any Iraqi who wants to apply as a refugee should be sent to America, and not some other country, because again, we caused the mess.

Now where have I heard that term before?

Dallas Texas sounds good to me!

Add some much needed color there.

I know they'd get along swimingly...

Edit to add...

Three men - a Canadian farmer, Osama bin Laden and a Biker Dude are
all walking together one day.

They come across a lantern and a Genie pops out of it.

'I will give each of you one wish, which is three wishes in total',
says the Genie.

The Canadian says, 'I am a farmer and my son will also farm. I want
the land to be forever fertile in Canada'

POOF! With the blink of the Genie's eye, the land in Canada was
forever fertile for farming.

Osama was amazed, so he said, 'I want a wall around Afghanistan,
Palestine, Iraq and Iran so that no infidels, Americans or Canadians
can come into our precious land.'

POOF! Again, with the blink of the Genie's eye, there was a huge wall
around those countries.

The Biker says, 'I am very curious...Please tell me more about this wall.'

The Genie explains, 'Well, it's about 5,000 feet high, 500 feet thick
and completely surrounds the countries.... Nothing can get in or out;
it's virtually impenetrable.'

The Biker sits down on his Harley, cracks a beer, lites a cigar,
smiles and says, 'Fill it with water.'