Trump Finalizes Executive Order To Put ISIS Detainees in Guantnamo
Source: Foreign Policy
The Trump administration is finalizing an executive order that effectively tells allies and Islamic State fighters alike: Guantánamo is open for business.
The imminent directive temporarily bars the transfer of any current detainees, and instructs the U.S. military to bring any new detainees — explicitly including ISIS militants — to Guantánamo, according to a draft of the executive order, which is expected as soon as this week. The draft directive was first released on Wednesday by The New York Times, and Foreign Policy independently confirmed the details with current and former officials.
But in a clear break from Trump’s controversial Jan. 27 executive order barring refugees and travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, which is currently facing court challenges, a number of officials at the Departments of Defense and State have viewed and weighed in on drafts of the Guantánamo directive, as recently as last Friday. Trump’s national security council, while holding the order close, has made changes in response, most notably dropping language ordering a review of whether the U.S. should bring back torture and reopen CIA “black sites.”
The new directive indicates a shift in U.S. counterterrorism strategy, with a renewed emphasis on capturing suspected terrorists for their intelligence value rather than killing them in targeted strikes. Observers and lawmakers say the botched Jan. 29 military raid in Yemen was motivated in part by an eagerness to capture new detainees to put in Cuba.
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