US holds talks about Yemen detention center for Guantanamo inmates

[unhappycamper]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/11/08/207923/us-holds-talks-about-yemen-detention.html


US holds talks about Yemen detention center for Guantanamo inmates
By DAVID S. CLOUD — Tribune Washington Bureau
Published: November 8, 2013

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is in talks with Yemeni officials to set up a detention facility outside their capital to hold dozens of terrorism suspects from Guantanamo Bay and Afghanistan, U.S. and Yemeni officials say.

The plan affects only Yemeni prisoners but is considered key to a renewed push by President Barack Obama to close the prison camp built at the U.S. naval base in Cuba after the 2001 terrorist attacks, a vow he repeated this week. More than half of the 164 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are from Yemen.

"There's a definite recognition that this needs to happen but if it's not done right, the risks are very high," said a U.S. official familiar with the talks, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the plans are classified.

Yemeni officials have drawn up preliminary plans for the facility outside the capital, Sanaa, but final agreement may be months away. Deep disagreements remain on funding, and about whether it would function as another prison or as a halfway house for detainees to re-enter society after years of confinement and isolation.

[Solly Mack]

1. kr

[Warren Stupidity]

2. Almost all of the kidnap victims in Guantanamo have been cleared of any wrong doing

By their captors. The abomination continues.