Posted on 06/21/2009 9:36:59 AM PDT by freespirited
Portugal will take in two or three Guantanamo detainees once they are released by the U.S. detention center, the foreign minister said.
President Barack Obama has pledged to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center by early next year, and has asked European nations to accept some of the camp's 229 detainees.
The EU, which long argued for the prison's closure, agreed last week to "turn the page" on Guantanamo, but said it was up to individual EU members to decide whether to take in detainees from the camp. Few have agreed.
The Portuguese government is now working out the legal issues involved in bringing two or three former prisoners to Portugal, Foreign Minister Luis Amado was quoted Sunday as saying by state broadcaster RTP's Web site.
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Why would any country take our detainees? I don’t get that.
Because we're paying them BILLIONS of dollars. It will cost more to pay other countries to take these terrorists than it would to keep Gitmo open forever.
And I bet the terrorists will wish they were back at Gitmo. Except, perhaps, the ones living it up in Burmuda.
How much did obama give them? 50 miilion?
Gee are these guys going to get a villa by the sea in Portugal courtesy of the US tax payers like the GITMO guys did in Bermuda?
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