My Trip to GTMO (Josh Rogin)

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One year into his presidency, Barack Obama still hasn't managed to close the controversial U.S. prison facility at Guantánamo Bay. But its days are clearly numbered. Here's how I'll always remember the place.
BY JOSH ROGIN | JANUARY 23, 2010

... In 2006, I spent three weeks at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, touring the facility and attending hearings for the now-defunct military commissions ... The makeshift cells had originally been designed to hold Haitian refugees for days, not Afghan extremists for years ... Prisoners urinated in a metal pipe and defecated in a bucket ... Hygienic conditions were nonexistent and the facility lacked all of the advanced medical equipment that was abundant in the modern hospital that treated soldiers on the nearby base ...

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/01/22/my_trip_to_gtmo

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1. K&R.

[KILL THE WISE ONE]

2. so we are obviously going to miss the 1 year, how long do we give him?

[struggle4progress]

3. It's a national and international political problem. There's the problem of finding

places to send the people that should be released immediately; this has been a complicated process

Furthermore, Section 14103 of Public Law 111-32 (HR2346: Supplemental Appropriations Act), passed last June, forbid release of prisoners in the US and forbid moving prisoners to the US except for trial. That put the Executive in a difficult position with respect to relocating detainees

China to Switzerland: Do Not to Resettle Guantanamo Uighurs
China is calling on Switzerland and other countries not to accept Uighurs from the American detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It says they are criminals and should be returned to China to face punishment.
Stephanie Ho | Beijing
12 January 2010
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/asia/China-to-Switzerland-Do-Not-to-Resettle-Guantanamo-Uighurs--81224452.html

Swiss panel votes against taking Guantanamo inmates
Jan 13, 2010
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60B3YX20100112

The Irish Times - Saturday, January 23, 2010
50 identified for detention without trial at Guantánamo
PETER FINN in Washington
... Some European officials, who would like to see Guantánamo Bay closed without instituting indefinite detention, are advocating the creation of an internationally funded rehabilitation centre for terrorism suspects in Yemen and possibly Afghanistan. They say such a facility would gradually allow the transfer of all detainees from those countries back to their homelands, according to two sources familiar with the plan ... http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2010/0123/1224262927011.html

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4. But first put the Supreme Court five there as terrorist sympathizers.

They paved the way for Bin laden et alia to use their billions to SUPPORT terrorism as they donate to our politics!