Switzerland May Take Four Gitmo Detainees

[babylonsister]

http://washingtonindependent.com/60217/switzerland-may-take-four-gitmo-detainees

Switzerland May Take Four Gitmo Detainees
By Daphne Eviatar 9/21/09 8:55 AM


Switzerland sent officials last month to visit the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay to collect information about four detainees it’s considering accepting for resettlement, The Associated Press reports.

The men being considered are reportedly two Chinese Muslim Uighurs, an Uzbek and a Palestinian. The men the United States has been trying to relocate have all been deemed not to pose any security threat but cannot be returned to their native countries for fear of persecution and torture there.

Ireland, Portugal, France, Albania, the Pacific island nation of Palau and Bermuda have all already agreed to take about a dozen detainees since President Obama took office in January and promised to close the Guantanamo prison by January 2010.

The United States, however, has refused to accept any of the detainees cleared for release on its own soil, including those that U.S. federal judges have ruled were wrongly imprisoned by the United States for more than seven years.

[Heidi]

1. I guess since the US has provided them such fine accommodations all these years,

we feel no further obligation to them. As a US citizen living in Switzerland, I would not feel threatened having any of those four resettled here (there's an abandoned hospital/clinic down-mountain for us that's being eyed as a refugee resettlement center).

[asjr]

2. It has finally come to this--America is now, along

with jobs and industries, is outsourcing our prisoners. Someone needs to draw a map of the U.S. showing exactly where and when our manufacturing and customer service jobs were deported to other countries.