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mcconnell Rakes Gates Over Gitmo Inmates - Human Events
mcconnell Rakes Gates Over Gitmo Inmates
Human Events, DC - Connie Hair
HUMAN EVENTS has been reporting for nearly two weeks on the planned release of seventeen Chinese Uighurs -- members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement captured at an al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan. These terrorist prisoners were found by a ...
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Gates defends plan to accept Chinese detainees in US - Los Angeles Times
Gates defends plan to accept Chinese detainees in US
Los Angeles Times, CA - Julian E. Barnes
He says the Uighurs held at Guantanamo Bay would face persecution if they were returned to China. By Julian E. Barnes Reporting from Washington -- Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Thursday that he expected staunch opposition in Congress to the ...
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Democrats struggle with Guantanamo politics - Politico
Democrats struggle with Guantanamo politics
Politico, DC - David Rogers
They are Chinese Muslims known as Uighurs, and their supporters say they never should have been at Guantanamo. Seventeen Uighurs are held at Guantanamo. In recent weeks, officials reinterviewed them in preparation for their eventual transfer. ...
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Scores of Guantanamo Bay detainees may be moved to US soil - Telegraph.co.uk
Scores of Guantanamo Bay detainees may be moved to US soil
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - Leonard Doyle
Some of the 17 Chinese ethnic Uighurs being held at Guantanamo may be allowed to settle in the United States, to help encourage allies to accept some of the detainees, Mr Gates said. The administration has said it "cannot imagine" sending the Uighurs ...
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Senators press for Gitmo closing details - The Associated Press
Senators press for Gitmo closing details
The Associated Press
Gates also acknowledged that some of the Chinese Muslims — known as Uighurs (WEE'-gurz )_ are likely to be released in the United States. "It's difficult for the State Department to make the argument to other countries that they should take these ...
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50-100 Guantanamo inmates can't be tried, freed: Gates - AFP
50-100 Guantanamo inmates can't be tried, freed: Gates
AFP
US officials were also considering allowing some of the 17 Chinese ethnic Uighurs held at Guantanamo to settle in the United States, to help encourage allies to accept some of the detainees, Gates confirmed. "What I have heard people talking about is ...
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US to limit Guantanamo releases - BBC News
US to limit Guantanamo releases
BBC News, UK
Mr Gates confirmed that although many of the detainees who are to be released without charge would be sent to other countries, some of the 17 Chinese ethnic Uighurs are likely to be allowed to settle in the US. "What I have heard people talking about ...
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Gates: 50 To 100 Guantanamo Inmates Can't Be Tried Or Freed - EasyBourse.com
Gates: 50 To 100 Guantanamo Inmates Can't Be Tried Or Freed
EasyBourse.com, France
US officials are considering allowing some of the 17 Chinese ethnic Uighurs held at Guantanamo to settle in the United States, to help encourage allies to accept some of the inmates, the Pentagon chief said. "What I have heard people talking about is ...
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4/30 Major Demo/Arrest Action @ White House Demand Torture ... - Bay Area Indymedia
4/30 Major Demo/Arrest Action @ White House Demand Torture ...
Bay Area Indymedia, CA
Yet the Obama Justice Department pursued a challenge to the ruling by the Bush administration, and the Uighurs remain at Guantanamo. “Obama must know the Civil Rights-era slogan ‘Justice delayed is justice denied,'” says historian and WAT activist ...
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Swedish court secures ex-Guantánamo Uighur's asylum quest - Christian Science Monitor
Swedish court secures ex-Guantánamo Uighur's asylum quest
Christian Science Monitor, MA - Ritt Goldstein
President Obama called Friday for seven of the 17 remaining Uighurs at the prison to be released. By Ritt Goldstein | Contributor Dalarna, Sweden - On Wednesday, a Swedish court upheld the asylum bid of a Uighur freed from Guantánamo prison in 2006. ...
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BREAKING: White House Overrides FBI and DHS on Gitmo Release - Human Events
BREAKING: White House Overrides FBI and DHS on Gitmo Release
Human Events, DC - Jed Babbin, Jed Babbin
That panel found that the seventeen Uighurs -- members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement captured at an al-Queda training camp in Pakistan -- were too dangerous to release in the United States. Now -- according to a federal agency source who ...
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The Rising Stakes of Refugee Issues in China - US-China Institute
The Rising Stakes of Refugee Issues in China
US-China Institute, LA
How does the Chinese government handle Tibetans and Uyghurs seeking asylum abroad? What measures might encourage Beijing to comply with its obligations to refugees under international law? Sean R. Roberts, Uyghur refugee expert, Associate Professor of ...
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Detainees Cleared for Landing ... and You Get to Pay for It! [Andy ... - National Review Online Blogs
Detainees Cleared for Landing ... and You Get to Pay for It! [Andy ...
National Review Online Blogs, NY
Fox News is reporting that, in addition to the Uighurs, another 13 combatants have now been "cleared" for release — bringing the total to 30. And when many, if not the vast majority, of the people who trained to kill you end up here, you'll get to pay ...
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EU Should Help Close Guantanamo by Resettling Detainees - Human Rights Watch (press release)
EU Should Help Close Guantanamo by Resettling Detainees
Human Rights Watch (press release)
"The US would be in a much better position to convince European countries to resettle Guantanamo detainees if it agreed to take in some of the Uighurs," said Sullivan. There are currently 17 Chinese Uighurs in custody at Guantanamo, most of whom have ...
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To close Gitmo, Holder to make appeal to Europe - Town Hall
To close Gitmo, Holder to make appeal to Europe
Town Hall, DC
By DEVLIN BARRETT After privately asking European officials to take some freed Guantanamo Bay inmates, US Attorney General Eric Holder is making a public appeal for help in closing a detention facility for terrorism suspects that has been widely ...
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Timeline: President Obama and counterterrorism - InTheNews.co.uk
Timeline: President Obama and counterterrorism
InTheNews.co.uk, UK
A federal appeals court overturns a lower court ruling from October 2008 that had ordered the government to release into the USA the 17 Uighurs held in Guantanamo. The US justice department informs a federal judge that the new administration was ...
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The CCP's Human Rights Action Plan: a Smokescreen for Persecution - The Epoch Times
The CCP's Human Rights Action Plan: a Smokescreen for Persecution
The Epoch Times, NY
Yet, looking at its words rather than its acts, some people too often unwittingly comment on such a barbaric lawless regime, which persecutes not only Falun Gong, but also the Tibetans, the Uyghurs, Christians, democracy activists, human rights ...
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Official: Some Gitmo detainees will come to Europe - The Associated Press
Official: Some Gitmo detainees will come to Europe
The Associated Press
PRAGUE (AP) — US Attorney General Eric Holder asked European officials Tuesday to accept some freed Guantanamo Bay detainees, and one government official at the meeting predicted he'll get his wish. Meeting with a number of European officials to update ...
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Official: some Gitmo detainees will come to Europe - The Associated Press
Official: some Gitmo detainees will come to Europe
The Associated Press
PRAGUE (AP) — A European official says some Guantanamo Bay detainees will be released in Europe — but not to his country. Ivan Langer, the Czech Minister of Interior, told The Associated Press he believes some European nations will accept Guantanamo ...
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McConnell Questions Release of Gitmo Inmates - Human Events
McConnell Questions Release of Gitmo Inmates
Human Events, DC
by Human Events “Tomorrow night in Berlin, Attorney General Holder is scheduled to deliver a speech about the administration's plan to shut down the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay by the arbitrary deadline of January 2010. ...
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