Xmas Return Seen for EU Gitmo Prisoners -"a politically propitious time"

[papau]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=19&u=/nm/20031130/ts_nm/security_britain_guantanamo_dc

Christmas Return Seen for European Guantanamo Prisoners
LONDON (Reuters) - A British human rights lobbyist said on Sunday that five European nations were close to a deal to repatriate citizens held by the United States at its base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, possibly as soon as Christmas.

Stephen Jakobi, director of Fair Trials Abroad, said his group had been tracking negotiations over the prisoners between Washington and Britain, France, Denmark, Sweden and Spain.
"I am convinced that an overall settlement involving all the European citizens in Guantanamo is likely," he told Reuters. He later told ITV television news: "I expect they'll be home by Christmas," <snip>


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&ncid=716&e=15&u=/nm/20031130/ts_nm/security_guantanamo_dc

....Time magazine reported on Sunday...Slated for release were "the easiest 20 percent" of detainees, a military official told the magazine. It did not identify its source, who said the military was waiting for "a politically propitious time to release them"

[papau]

1. "a politically propitious time" means folks held until Rove says release?

Where is the media outrage at this corruption of "justice and freedom and liberty" ???

One's liberty is determined by what will be most politically useful and advantageous for the GOP and Bush?

You stay in jail until we can get maximum positive PR for letting you go?

[leetrisck]

2. C-Span just read article that 100 would be

released during Dec & Jan. I'm wondering - if they're being released, why did we hold them so long in the first place. There has been plenty of time to find out who is who. Also 3 retired high ranking military asking for investigation into
Gitmo over worries about how our own military and civilians may be treated

[davhill]

3. If the intense brainwashing has worked

US intelligence may at last be able to penetrate Islamic terrorists groups.

[truthisfreedom]

4. as kkkarl rove says, "timing is everything. people are nothing. bush needs

to be elected. he wasn't elected the first time, and if any of us are going to survive history, we've got to WIN A GODDANGED ELECTION."

8^P

[Freddie Stubbs]

5. Especially because these guys clelebrate Christmas