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Guantanamo prisoners set to leave amid trade furor
The Kansas City Star / The Associated Press ^ | June 8, 2014 | Ben Fox

Posted on 06/08/2014 4:14:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Some of the men held here for more than a decade have been drafting plans for work and marriage on the outside or studying languages, preparing for a not-too-distant future beyond the coiled razor wire that surrounds the U.S. prison perched at the edge of the Caribbean Sea.

Until the past week, they had good reason to believe their ticket out might be imminent, if not home then at least to another country. President Barack Obama and others in the administration say they are committed to closing the Guantanamo detention center and military officials say they can resume transfers at a moment's notice, just as they did with the May 31 swap of five Guantanamo inmates for a captured American soldier...

(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 20140531; bergdahl; gitmo; guantanamo; obama; prisonerswap; terrorism
If I were there, I would've celebrated at the news that a Muslim was somehow elected to the US presidency.
1 posted on 06/08/2014 4:14:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hey, Barry, I got an idea. Why don't you dump them on Arizona?

Oh, carp. I shouldn't joke about stuff like that.

2 posted on 06/08/2014 4:16:02 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
drafting plans for work and marriage on the outside

I call BS.
These guys aren't in Gitmo because they're domestic types.

If anything, I'd bet they're plotting payback, and we're going to regret letting these animals out of their cages.

3 posted on 06/08/2014 4:36:24 PM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Another ‘whacha gonna do about it’ moment from the Obama administration. It’s easy peasy now that the worst are gone. The rest at Gitmo are merely boy scouts by comparison.


4 posted on 06/08/2014 4:37:00 PM PDT by griswold3 (I was born heI're in America. I will die here in a third world country. Obama succeeded.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The blood is on the Commie pink fag’s hands.


5 posted on 06/08/2014 4:45:13 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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Just a couple of hours ago a massive terrorist attack occurred at the largest airport in Pakistan. The same country the Haqqani Network operates out of. They actually operate out of Afghanistan and Pakistan. They were the ones holding Bergdahl. Should not an injunction on all new terrorist releases and trades be immediately put in place. We are only talking about the largest airport in Pakistan. About 3 destroyed planes. 16 people dead so far.


6 posted on 06/08/2014 4:46:55 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Texas Eagle

http://www.politico.com/story/2012/11/84379.html


7 posted on 06/08/2014 4:48:16 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Are they flying on Malaysian Airlines?


8 posted on 06/08/2014 5:04:18 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")
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Obama is the best thing that ever happened muslim terrorism.

Thanks to his hard work over the years, when the scumbag enemy agent leaves the White House (if he does) the muslim terrorist movements will be stronger than they were before 9/11/2001.


9 posted on 06/08/2014 6:34:28 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The Obamas' Black skin has morphed into Teflon thanks to the Obama Media)
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Any prisoners learn about Jesus while in Guantanamo? Convert toChristianity?


10 posted on 06/08/2014 6:38:20 PM PDT by petitfour
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