U.S. Says It Fears Detainee Abuse in Repatriation (NY Times)

[zbird]

A long-running effort by the Bush administration to send home many of the terror suspects held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has been stymied in part because of concern among United States officials that the prisoners may not be treated humanely by their own governments, officials said.

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But Washington's insistence on humane treatment for the detainees in their native countries comes after years in which Guantánamo has been assailed as a symbol of American abuse and hypocrisy — a fact not lost on the governments with which the United States is now negotiating.

"It is kind of ironic that the U.S. government is placing conditions on other countries that it would not follow itself in Guantánamo or Abu Ghraib," said a Middle Eastern diplomat from one of the countries involved in the talks. He asked not to be named to avoid criticizing the United States in the name of his government.

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The negotiations have bogged down over questions of how those commitments should be formalized and monitored. United States officials at one point suggested that the prisoners be visited by the International Committee of the Red Cross, but the Saudi government does not now allow the Red Cross access to its prisons, and the proposal was set aside, officials said.

More at: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/world/30gitmo.html?hp&ex=1146369600&en=6eff9b505d066a38&ei=5094&partner=homepage

The mind just boggles at the doublethink. And to know that people will buy into this bullshit without even acknowledging the utter hypocrisy... :banghead:

[jwirr]

1. Well, my, my. That is exactly why the Geneva Convention Rules

were put into effect. But idiots who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it and *ss is definitely an idiot.

[HuffleClaw]

2. too orwellian for words

really

[lostexpectation]

3. let them live in america then:P

[951-Riverside]

7. I agree

Bring them over here; feed, clothe and pay for their boarding (depending on their financial status) and if they decide to leave pay for their trip out.

We owe these people this.

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. well, you brought them here George - so if they don't belong in jail

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give them asylum and put them up in a nice hotel

pay the costs out of your own pocket

and think twice about who you incarcerate

well

thinking even ONCE might do it

shi*head

[Roland99]

5. BS, if they feared that why the hell have been water-boarding these people

for years? And submitting them to freezing temps, hot temps, sleep deprivation, etc.

Why have they been holding them w/o legal counsel or charges for years?


Fuckers!

:mad:

[President Kerry]

6. whoa..

This just speaks for itself. You don't move them from a place where they ARE abused for fear that they MIGHT be abused in their home countries? How considerate of them..

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

8. Afraid they won't be tortured as professionally in their own country?

As they are in Gitmo?

[thecrow]

9. Amen. n/t

[Double T]

10. bushco world was strange...........

and it just got a lot stranger. It takes giant brass balls, plain stupidity, complete denial and or supreme self-righteousness to be concerned about OTHER countries behavior and actions when we have become the standard for CRUEL and UNUSUAL punishment. I wish these A-holes were kidding but.......

[struggle4progress]

11. kick

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