Australia Asked to Take Guantanamo Prisoners, Herald Reports

[struggle4progress]

Source: Bloomberg

By Sarah McDonald

Jan. 23 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. government asked Australia to take prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Sydney Morning Herald reported, citing an unnamed spokeswoman for Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Australia is considering the request, the newspaper cited the spokeswoman as saying. The South Pacific nation has rejected past requests, the Herald reported ...

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=aiOQXBJSoeUM

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Slovakia offers home to three Guantanamo prisoners
19 Jan 2010
Tom Nicholson
Politics & Society

Three prisoners from the controversial US prison at Guantanamo Bay will be resettled in Slovakia this year following an agreement between the Slovak and US governments.

At a press conference in Bratislava on January 19, Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajčiak said that none of the three were suspected terrorists, nor had any ever been charged with a crime. Igor Slobodník, the ministry’s political affairs director, called them “non-combatant militants”, such as cooks or drivers within suspected terrorist organizations.

The three prisoners that Slovakia agreed to accept will be housed in special camps under the control of the Interior Ministry. Following an 18-month process of acclimatization to Slovakia, including language instruction and a search for employment, the prisoners will be released into the general population. They will be under the supervision of local intelligence services for an undetermined period ...

http://spectator.sme.sk/articles/view/37683/2/slovakia_offers_home_to_three_guantanamo_prisoners.html

[Robb]

1. And in a generation, they can found their own country. nt

[Mari333]

2. wtf???

no due process, no anything, just put them in australia , out of sight, out of mind..I hope the australians pitch a fit.
wtf!! undetermined period???? no judge or jury or lawyers? just some undetermined period, and the US public might forget about them, and forget they even exist? and then the Obama admin doesnt have to think about it or deal with it?

this is switching around deck chairs on the Titanic again

geezus.

[struggle4progress]

4. I think it's a resettlement -- trying to find a home for some people at Guantanamo against whom

no charges will be preferred

[Craftsman]

3. Botany Bay?

[Downwinder]

5. Send them to Georgia (the State). n/t

[anakie]

6. they won't be coming to Australia n/t