U.S. Says It Fears Detainee Abuse in Repatriation

[William769]

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.

Administration officials have said they hope eventually to transfer or release many of the roughly 490 suspects now held at Guantánamo. As of February, military officials said, the Pentagon was ready to repatriate more than 150 of the detainees once arrangements could be made with their home countries.

But those arrangements have been more difficult to broker than officials in Washington anticipated or have previously acknowledged, raising questions about how quickly the administration can meet its goal of scaling back detention operations at Guantánamo.

"The Pentagon has no plans to release any detainees in the immediate future," said a Defense Department spokesman, Lt. Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon of the Navy. He said the negotiations with foreign governments "have proven to be a complex, time-consuming and difficult process."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/world/30gitmo.html?ex=1304049600&en=4ad40eac6c7a6ad1&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

What fucking alternate universe am I in right now?

[KeepItReal]

1. If I didn't know better, I'd say they are trying to make more terrorists

Folks locked up for years without being charged far from where they live, now unable to go home once they have been found innocent? I don't think these prisoners are gonna go home with a pro-USA point of view.

[bullimiami]

2. "we abuse them here so they dont have to abuse them over there"

bushco never sees the irony.