Germany rejects Guantanamo inmates

[struggle4progress]

Source: China Daily

By Zhang Xin (China Daily)
Updated: 2009-05-12 07:50

Citing security concerns, Germany has reversed a decision to take in nine Chinese detained at Guantanamo Bay ...

"We have no interest in exposing ourselves to additional risk," Holger Hoevelmann, interior minister of Germany's Saxony-Anhalt state, told the Frankfurter Rundschau daily newspaper ...

Feng Zhongping, an expert in European studies with the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, said it was not surprising for Germany to change its mind because of rising domestic pressure.

"Some politicians agreed to resettle the nine Chinese prisoners to be consistent in their support for the US closure of Guantanamo, as Germany had long pressed for the shutdown, while others have kept questioning the security issues - why doesn't the US keep them in America and why put them here in Germany?" Feng said ...


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[CoffeeCat]

1. You know your country is on the wrong path...

...when the Germans urge you to close your sequestered prison in which people who haven't been charged with any
crimes--are tortured.

Does the fact that Germany has long sounded the alarm against Guantanamo--gobsmack anyone else?

[Downwinder]

2. Remember when Rummy went to see his relatives there.

They didn't want much to do with him.

[opihimoimoi]

3. Send them to where Bush Resides...like in DALLAS....He made this nightmare happen

[stillcool]

4. Wow...9 human beings?

too bad they aren't dogs.

[LittleGirl]

5. we've kept Charles Manson safely behind bars for 30+ yrs

why not suspected terrorists awaiting trials?

Why can't we take responsibility for those we arrested, tortured and imprisoned?
They are OUR PRISONERS, not Germany's or China's.
Wasn't Gitmo built in 100 hours?
When did America become scaredy cats about securing terrorists?

[DetlefK]

6. And why? About 2 weeks ago, interior minister complained: US did not provide the necessary files

The interior minister Wolfgang Schäuble complained about 2 weeks ago, that the US did not provide him with the files he needed. He was unable to determine whether they are any threat, what their relationships/connections to the US are and what their relationships/connections to Germany are.

[No Elephants]

7. There's a new prison in the US begging to take in the detainees. I don't get

why we don't put them there. (The City Council wants them, too.)