U.S. resettles 4 Gitmo detainees in Bermuda

[IDemo]

Source: Associated Press

Department of Justice says the Uighers are already on the U.K.-run island

WASHINGTON - Four Chinese Muslims who were detained for years at Guantanamo Bay have been released and resettled in Bermuda.

These detainees, who were subject to release as a result of court orders, had been cleared for release by the prior administration, which determined they would no longer treat them as enemy combatants, the Justice Department said in a statement on Thursday.

It's the first time since 2006 that the U.S. has successfully resettled any of Guantanamo's population of Chinese Muslims -- or Uighurs -- whose fate has been wending through the courts for years.

The U.S. government had determined that they weren't enemy combatants and should be released. But China resisted their release and it had been unclear where they would go free.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31237416/

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[spartan61]

2. I had Mourning Joe on for a few minutes this morning and the

report said our gov't paid Bermuda $200 Million to take these four detainees. Yikes!!!!

[hughee99]

5. Hell, for $50 million, I'll let one of them live in my spare bedroom. n/t

[Soylent Brice]

3. K&R

[bdamomma]

4. glad to see that some countries/islands

are stepping up to the plate.

http://www.royalgazette.com/siftology.royalgazette/Article/article.jsp?articleId=7d965b630030005§ionId=60

not a bad place to be either!!!!!!!!!!!!

[damntexdem]

6. But will they look good in shorts?

They should have been released years ago in the States.

[Coventina]

7. I wish those poor souls well.

They can't go back to China, as the government considers them terrorists by their ethnicity.

I'm not sure I understand why they couldn't be given a home here in the Uighur community, but Bermuda seems pretty nice.

However, any time one is not given a choice, even Paradise can be Hell.

Bushco has so much to answer for....

:-(

[struggle4progress]

8. Guantanamo Uighurs hail freedom in Bermuda (AFP)

HAMILTON, Bermuda (AFP) — ... Ignoring demands hours earlier by China for custody of the men, US authorities freed four Uighurs who flew from the Guantanamo prison in Cuba to Bermuda, an Atlantic archipelago which accepted them in a guest-worker program ...

In London, the Foreign Office chided Bermuda, saying that it should have consulted Britain before agreeing to let in the Uighurs ...

The United States went ahead with the transfer to Bermuda despite renewed pressure from China, which has demanded custody of all 17 who were in Guantanamo Bay ...

Qin alleged the Uighur detainees were members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, which seeks an independent Islamic state in Xinjiang and is considered a terrorist group by Washington. The men deny the charges.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hszITuLbgcTZn2SE9oT2_sDadrRA