Obama Minions still can't make up their mind on 13 suspects

[vostok]

The Pentagon has ruled out transferring its most secretly held detainees from Afghanistan to Guantánamo Bay, an official told the Guardian, and is signalling it wants to resolve their years-long plight by the new year.

While US military officials scramble to figure out what to do with an estimated 13 non-Afghan detainees they hold without charge on the outskirts of Bagram airfield, “none of the detainees will be transferred to Guantánamo Bay,” Lt Col Myles Caggins, the Pentagon’s detentions spokesman, told the Guardian.

Barack Obama, who has been stymied in his attempt to close the infamous detention facility, has not added to the Guantánamo Bay detainee population since becoming president. But this week, the commander for residual detentions at the Bagram site – alternately known as the Detention Facility in Parwan or the Afghan National Detention Facility-Parwan – suggested that the non-Afghans might be sent to Guantánamo as a last resort.

Time appears to be drawing down for the Bagram facility. After quietly releasing dozens of non-Afghans detained over the past year, the final cohort of detainees there in US custody, the Pentagon’s intention is to divest itself of the rest by year’s end.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/02/pentagon-rules-out-transfer-bagram-detainees-guantanamo

 

[schuylaar]

i don't see the big deal about gitmo..3 squares and all the eastern sky you can rapid fire bow to Allah..these people hurt themselves and need a controlled environment in which to display..a jihadist de-light.

 

[nitro harley]

What do the Obama minions think about letting five taliban generals go back to killing americans? This fucking Obama is acting like he is on the wrong side of the war. If a liberal Obama lover can figure that out let the rest of us in on the secret.

 

[bud nugbong]

we need to do roman gladiatior shit with these guys. don't keep them alive, don't let them go. just fight to the death for your next meal. Different styles...Like wwf wrestling,maybe civil war reenactments. platform wrestling... make lemonade with these lemons.

 

[AlecTheGardener]

Either charge them with a crime or release them.

If they are a 'danger' to America surely they must have charges that can be brought, evidence to proceed with the court case . . . Oh yeah . . . We just lock people up and throw away the release paperwork until it becomes a political nightmare for the politicians involved.

We are America, we are supposed to be the good guys. We loose all moral high ground by holding humans prisoner for so long without proceeding.

 

[NoDrama]

I think each one should have a trial. You know, human rights and all.

 

[OGEvilgenius]

What do the Obama minions think about letting five taliban generals go back to killing americans? This fucking Obama is acting like he is on the wrong side of the war. If a liberal Obama lover can figure that out let the rest of us in on the secret.

Indeed, arming groups like ISIS seems to indicate as much. Of course the US government has vested interest in keeping the ME a total cluster fuck.

 

[Pass it Around]

Let them fuck themselves, we should hurry up and build renewable energy so we don't have to rely on those camel fuckers.

 

[ginwilly]

i don't see the big deal about gitmo..3 squares and all the eastern sky you can rapid fire bow to Allah..these people hurt themselves and need a controlled environment in which to display..a jihadist de-light.

This is where I am about GITMO. I don't understand the need to close it if we are just going to put the indefinitely detained somewhere else.

I don't see how keeping indefinitely detained in Kansas or Tripoli is better that gbay. It's the same shitty principle no matter where we put them.

I didn't understand it when Bush wanted it closed, I didn't understand it when Obama wrote the executive order to close it, and now that he's quit talking about it, maybe someone can explain (other than PR) why it's such a black eye?