Spain willing to take 3-5 Gitmo detainees
EmailABC News' Kirit Radia reports: Spain is willing to take in three to five Guantanamo detainees, a senior State Department official told ABC News, confirming a report today in the Spanish newspaper El Pais. Ambassador Daniel Fried, the top State Dept official tasked with finding a place for those detainees cleared for release, arrived in Spain yesterday with a list of detainees for the Spanish government to consider, the official confirmed. El Pais reports those include several Tunisians and Syrians. The paper also reports that Spain has not demanded that the detainees have any connection to the country in order to be resettled there. France agreed to accept an Algerian detainee last month in large part because he had family in the country. Spain is the second European country to say it would take in detainees since the US and the European Union agreed Monday on principles of closing the detention facility. That same day Italy said it would take in a three detainees. Last week saw a flurry of transfers from Guantanamo, with four Uighur detainees being transferred to Bermuda and reports that 13 other Uighurs, Chinese Muslims, could be sent to the Pacific island nation of Palau. Three Saudis were transferred home last week, as well as one individual sent to Iraq and another to Chad. The Obama administration has pledged to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility by the end of January 2010.
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Good for them! I cannot believe that it is even a political issue at all.
You imprison the wrong guys for 8 years. It’s only fair that if a military tribunal finds them innocent, they should be released, and the US should pay the bill.
Posted by: blip | June 17, 2009, 12:59 pm 12:59 pm
If everyone is getting $11+ million per enemy combatant, I’ll take one.
Posted by: WhereWasThePress? | June 17, 2009, 1:10 pm 1:10 pm
Good. I’m really glad to see Europe step up to the plate, because this war was their baby too.
Posted by: MayBee | June 17, 2009, 1:41 pm 1:41 pm
Good job, now if we would stop being scared stupid by the GOP, we’ll step up and take some too. If Europe will take in detainees why can’t we. It’s largely our responsibility.
Posted by: joane | June 17, 2009, 2:16 pm 2:16 pm
More good news! This is what good diplomacy is all about. Obama is working hard to make America the leader that it has been in the past. He has a big job ahead, but all indications are that we are making progress. We need more cooperation in the congress and senate from republicans but hopefully they will either come around or be voted out and replaced with someone who will work for progress instead of preventing it.
Posted by: JMikey54 | June 17, 2009, 2:59 pm 2:59 pm
“Good job, now if we would stop being scared stupid by the GOP, we’ll step up and take some too.”
Have you written your Congressman requesting placement of detainees in your backyard?
Posted by: tjp612 | June 17, 2009, 3:05 pm 3:05 pm
“Off topic: How petty and pathetic do you have to be to fake plant a garden?”
Far less pathetic and petty that faking a racial attack on oneself for the purpose of scary white voters.
Posted by: Ryan C | June 17, 2009, 3:24 pm 3:24 pm
So how much did this cost the taxpayer in monies given to Spain? Palau got 200 million……..
Posted by: JB | June 17, 2009, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm
Off topic: How petty and pathetic do you have to be to fake plant a garden?
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They planted the garden 89 days ago. lettuce take about 50 days to mature; peas 60-70. Are you so stupid you can’t do math? Or is it that you just hate the first lady and will look for any bs to smear?
Posted by: USMC | June 17, 2009, 3:49 pm 3:49 pm
Obama is outsourcing terrorist detention. I guess we should outsource health care, too.
Posted by: Mike | June 17, 2009, 4:47 pm 4:47 pm
“Have you written your Congressman requesting placement of detainees in your backyard?”
I don’t have a problem with them being in my back yard, as long as my back yard has a maximum security prison to hold them in. Prisons in my back yard are regularly releasing people who are willing to stab my throat if I steal their parking space, why would I be more afraid of having some guy who can’t do anything to me without a plane?
Posted by: Jerry | November 13, 2009, 1:03 pm 1:03 pm