Well, I suppose this could pose a slight complication to planned Guantanamo releases. Is it really smart to release 80 terrorist detainees, sending them back to the very country in which this latest terrorist was trained and outfitted? Some might not think it very smart at all.
Growing evidence that the Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a commercial airliner as it landed in Detroit Friday spent time in Yemen and may have been fitted with customized, explosive-laden clothing there could complicate the U.S. government’s efforts to send home more than 80 Yemeni prisoners currently at Guantanamo Bay.
Since Yemenis represent almost half of the roughly 200 remaining prisoners at Gitmo, new hurdles to their resettlement could spell more trouble for President Barack Obama’s plan to close the island prison while transferring a limited number of detainees to a prison in the U.S. Six Yemeni nationals were returned home earlier this month, and officials hoped more transfers would follow.
Illinois has room for them.
Posted by: Gibbsy | Saturday, December 26, 2009 at 08:51 PM
Send them back to Yemen, but drop them off at 20,000 feet... without a parachute.
Posted by: Captain Joe | Sunday, December 27, 2009 at 10:47 AM