Monday, November 24, 2008

GB prisoners to be released into the States?

This is an interesting article dealing with a particular group of men that are being currently held in Guantanamo Bay. They are part of an ethnic and linguistic group of Muslims known as the Uighurs from western China. The government has dropped all enemy combatant status against them and cleared them for release however there are no countries that are willing to take them. Recenly a federal judge determined that they could temporarily be released into the Washington DC area. This is the first time a judge has suggested anyting of the sort and brings up some difficult and important questions: how will our government treat these individuals ? Will they receive pardons? Apoligies? Will they be addressed at all by our government? This demonstrates some of the most important aspects of closing guantanamo that are rarely spoken about in the media.

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