Finding a home for Guantanamo detainees (LAT editorial)

If the U.S. expects European nations to resettle Guantanamo Bay detainees, it must practice what it preaches.
June 18, 2009

Call it the coalition of the grudging: U.S. allies who praised President Obama for announcing the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility have resisted the resettlement of detainees on their soil. That's supposed to change as the result of an agreement Monday between the United States and the European Union. But the joint statement doesn't require any EU country to take even a single detainee ...

The administration has been frustrated by Europe's record so far. Germany balked at accepting 17 Uighurs, Muslim separatists from China who reasonably feared persecution if they were repatriated. Britain, which has a large Muslim population and has accepted six non-British detainees, seems to be balking at further transfers and objected when four Uighurs were moved to Bermuda, a British territory. Italy will accept three detainees. France has accepted one: Lakhdar Boumediene, an Algerian whose lawsuit prompted the U.S. Supreme Court to rule last year that prisoners at Guantanamo could petition for writs of habeas corpus ...

Some may be more willing to cooperate because of principles contained in the statement, including an obligation by the United States to share information about detainees and contribute to the cost of their relocation. But the best incentive for European cooperation is a willingness by the United States to do its part. Obama seemed to make such a commitment in a speech last month in which he reminded nervous members of Congress that hundreds of convicted terrorists are already held in "supermax" prisons from which no one has escaped.

The president mustn't waver from that position. As German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble put it: "If none of the U.S. states are ready to take in Guantanamo inmates, then you will have to explain to the European public why the rules for Europe should be different."

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-detainees18-2009jun18,0,969425.story

we fucked up. we tortured these people. now we want to pawn our problems off on other people. these people were not charged or convicted of any crime. how can you hold people indefinitely without charging them and convicting them of something. even in WWII they brought german POWs to the US. and really, aren't these folks really POWs with a different name!! what kind of country have we become.

that according to a Fed.Supt. at a talk last night. They only have one that is dedicated for the worst of the worst here in the US at Florence Colorado.

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_12424986

they wouldn't belong in a supermax

No finding necessary, if convicted jail. If not convicted then released back where we captured them end of story.