Life in paradise as Gitmo four take a dip, eat ice cream, etc in British territory of Bermuda

Daily Mail ^ | 15th June 2009 | Sarah Titterton

[marron]

This was facilitated by bags of money under the table.

[HollyB]

Can you believe it?!

[Jaxter]

Check out the hat on this dude...

Ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees (from left, in back) Ablikin Turahun,
Salahidin Abdulahad and Abdulla Abdulqadir watch as Maj. Glenn
Brangman jokes around in St. George's Bermuda.

[definitelynotaliberal]

$200,000,000

[Captain Beyond]

bump

[Nachum]

It does blow my mind.

[VicVega]

They fight or attempt to fight on the battle field. We for some strange reason take prisoners on the battle field, send them to GITMO where they receive three meals a day, medical attention, laptops and cable tv. So much more than what they got hiding in the mountains eating rice and weeds.

We Americans put up with all the crap from around the world and more importantly from the dainty arab world about how we are treating these fighters inhumanly.

Our Presidents, congressmen/women get on national talk shows and beg the world for our forgiveness for treating these fighters so wrongly. Again, look at the benefits of being captured by the US.

No one seems to care, especially in the US of how these fighters that capture our guys or hostages and cut off their heads. Just recently we allowed someone to go in Iraq that killed an American Soldier so as to build up our credibility with the arab world.

We now are relocating some 275 prisoners with all kinds of great incentives to the Country that takes these fighters all at the expense of the American People.

What about our men and women that have died so far in these wars or have been injured, what do they get? Nothing in comparison than what these fighers are getting.

We didn’t ask for this War on Terror, but we are in it. With what we are doing in GITMO and Iraq with releasing prisoners or giving them rights as ordinary US Citizens, makes you wonder if we really want to win it.

Prosecute our American Soldiers and send the fighters to some great Islands where they will live in luxury. We should instead be sending them to meet their maker in the paradise they so often desire.

[VicVega]

We, as in you and I and every freeper here. Our tax dollars are funding them and the restaurant the four plan to open. Wonderful world.

[CheneyChick]

Are these guys going to have jobs and be productive? Or will they use their time to sit around and figure out something to blow up? Who is buying them the new sneakers and the ice cream cones?

[mickey finn]

How cute! The Islamic terrorist is an Obama fan, all dressed up in his hopey-changey Obama garb. I guess if I was sent to Bermuda on the American tax payers back I would be a fan too. /s

[CheneyChick]

Well said.

[BP2]

This picture needs maximum exposure -- it's appalling:

It's as appalling as THIS story that was barely covered by our MSM ...

At a going rate of $12 million per detainee, Obama pays Palau $200 million to take Gitmo’s Chinese Uighurs

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Palau agreed to accept 17 Chinese Muslims who have languished in legal limbo at Guantanamo Bay, indicating a resolution to one of the thorniest issues facing the Obama administration’s decision to close the prison camp.

The announcement Wednesday by the Pacific archipelago, which would clear the last of the Uighurs from the camp in Cuba, was a major step toward the U.S. goal of finding new homes for detainees who have been cleared of wrongdoing but cannot go home for fear of ill-treatment.

President Johnson Toribiong said the decision of Palau, one of a handful of countries that does not recognize China and maintains diplomatic relations with Taiwan, was “a humanitarian gesture” intended to help the detainees restart their lives. His archipelago, with a population of about 20,000, will accept up to 17 of the detainees subject to periodic review, Toribiong said in a statement released to The Associated Press.

“This is but a small thing we can do to thank our best friend and ally for all it has done for Palau,” he said.

China, which has demanded the men be extradited to their homeland, had no immediate reaction.

Two U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the U.S. was prepared to give Palau up to $200 million in development, budget support and other assistance in return for accepting the Uighurs and as part of a mutual defense and cooperation treaty that is due to be renegotiated this year.

A former U.S. trust territory in the Pacific, Palau has retained close ties with the United States since independence in 1994 when it signed a Free Compact of Association with the U.S.

While it is independent, it relies heavily on U.S. aid and is dependent on the United States for its defense. Native-born Palauans are allowed to enter the United States without passports or visas.

With eight main islands and more than 250 islets, Palau is best known for diving and tourism and is located some 500 miles (800 kilometers) east of the Philippines in the Pacific Ocean.

[LucyJo]

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[Cheetahcat]

Amazing our Government is led by a mental cripple.
Or a sleeper jihadist!

That is a real possibility.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I’d expect them to become the biggest celebrities on the Bill Ayers Victim College Speaking Circuit (except some ChiCom Special Forces might hit the beach in Bermuda first....)

[Cheetahcat]

“I'm sure that all the people related to those who were murdered on 9/11 are thankful that our elected American hating, Godless, clueless, arrogant, phony TOTUS for the caring position he has shown to these and other murders of American people. Word are not enough to explain my embarrassment to tell anyone that he is the one who America has chosen as its leader.”

Zero is the most disgusting ,incompetent and American hating person imaginable to run ,let alone be elected by fraud. He is not my President.

[Yaelle]

I think smoke is coming out of my ears. What the hell can we do about this?

[Logical me]

But Washington insists deal was kept from London in an effort to protect UK's relationship with China

WTF is this? Are they crazy. Well, guess I answered my own question. King Obama is a child that never grew up.

[gitmogrunt]

Moral busting news from the POS in D.C.

[LucyT]

This thread will set your socks on fire.

Lots of photos throughout - (in case you’re on dialup.)