Posted on 06/15/2009 10:33:38 AM PDT by BP2
* U.S. accused of 'riding roughshod' over UK as Guantanamo detainees are sent to Bermuda in secret deal
* But Washington insists deal was kept from London in an effort to protect UK's relationship with China
* Bermudian opposition tables no confidence motion in Prime Minister as deal ignites political firestorm on the island
* PM admits he may not have agreed to take detainees in had he known the controversy it would cause
* EU agrees to take in detainees
They look like ordinary tourists as they stroll along the seafront on the British territory of Bermuda, but these four men are far from regular sunseekers for they have spent the last seven years locked up in Guantanamo Bay.
The former terror suspects are Uighurs - members of China's Muslim Turkic-speaking minority - and hail from a rugged province in the far west of the country ...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Oh. My. God.
“But Washington insists deal was kept from London in an effort to protect UK’s relationship with China”
So now Obama is leader of the UK? He knows what’s best for them?
Who’s paying for them to live in Bermuda?
It is NOT cheap. We have been there and at one time my husband was looking at jobs there. I repeat it is NOT cheap.
I agree, this is nothing short of a big ‘F-U America’ from this adminstration!!!
They need to throw the guy doing the backstroke a waterboard! LOL
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