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Britain Willing to Take ALL Gitmo Detainees

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Britain Willing to Take ALL Gitmo Detainees

To help Obama administration close Gitmo.

According to CNN radio.
 
Good, send them on.
That is the chink in the plan to try them in court.
What do we do with them when they are found not guilty?
 
bhkad said:
Britain Willing to Take ALL Gitmo Detainees
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Not about to happen I'm afraid. Our Govt was forced some years back to agree to sending all arrested criminals and illegal immigrants back to their home countries - so I don't see them letting themselves get into serious hot water over Guantanamo.

Not even being discussed on British news anyway so I don't believe the story. So far only Germany has said it would accept the freed prisoners who are not guilty.

I believe as Laila said in another thread that this is a US problem and the US should compensate any prisoners found innocent - including housing them and giving them citizenship if they cannot be returned.
 
I think they should sent them to France and if found innocent and then released in France. If San Fransisco was a inaccessible island and Its own country I would then say San Francisco . After all, according to them these poor people in Gitmo are just nothing more than poor farmers and shopkeepers arrested by evil soldiers and CIA agents with nothing else better to do than harass poor innocent civilians.
 
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Britain is preparing to receive foreign terror suspects from Guantánamo Bay so that Barack Obama can shut it down, The Times has learnt.

Government sources say that Britain now supports moves to rehouse the detainees, despite previous refusals to help President Bush.

A Downing Street official said that a process to deal with the detainees was being put in place and that decisions “would be for the Home Secretary to decide on a case-by-case basis”.

The issue is the subject of intense negotiations within Whitehall. The Foreign Office appears much keener on the idea than other departments, which will have to deal with the suspects’ immigration status and whether they will need special housing and cash benefits. Having foreign terror suspects with no links to the UK housed here inevitably will provoke controversy.
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Britain ready to take in Guantánamo prisoners - Times Online
 
I see no problem with UK allowing some to seek asylum here.
 
Maximus Zeebra said:
Why should the UK take them? They are a US problem; the US should take them, just like they should take all the Iraqi refugees.
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True, but we all know US will not take them

Seems to me Europe will probably end up taking the majority of them.
 
Maximus Zeebra said:
They have no choice... What else can they do with them if Europe refuse to take them?
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The Brits have expressed a willingness to take all of them.

Britain is preparing to receive foreign terror suspects from Guantánamo Bay so that Barack Obama can shut it down, The Times has learnt.

Government sources say that Britain now supports moves to rehouse the detainees, despite previous refusals to help President Bush.

A Downing Street official said that a process to deal with the detainees was being put in place and that decisions “would be for the Home Secretary to decide on a case-by-case basis”.

The issue is the subject of intense negotiations within Whitehall. The Foreign Office appears much keener on the idea than other departments, which will have to deal with the suspects’ immigration status and whether they will need special housing and cash benefits. Having foreign terror suspects with no links to the UK housed here inevitably will provoke controversy.
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“Of course the Foreign Office wants to do it, they want to get off to a good start with Obama,” said a Whitehall source. “This is the sort of thing that will require a Cabinet-level decision.”

Britain accepts that the prison should be closed, according to a diplomatic source, and that the US is going to need help to close it. The Government is supporting a call from Portugal for EU members to resettle detainees. The letter from the Foreign Minister Luis Amado to his EU counterparts follows weeks of internal EU discussions. Germany has said that it is considering taking in detainees. Mr Amado plans to raise the issue at a meeting of EU foreign ministers this month. It is also on the agenda at an EU General Affairs and External Relations Council meeting.

Late last year the Bush Administration sent a number of European allies, including Britain, a list of detainees, cleared for release by the US military, who face persecution in their home countries. The US State Department cabled about 100 countries for help in closing the jail.

The entreaties were met largely with refusals, but there is a desire to help Mr Obama, who has vowed to begin moves to close the prison as soon as he takes office this month. The President-elect has not made any formal request for help, but there have been talks between the US State Department and his transition team and he has made clear that he will exert pressure on Europe to take prisoners no longer deemed a threat.

The US military says that of the 248 prisoners still in Guantánamo Bay, “approximately 60” have been cleared for release. One move being discussed in Washington is for the US to take in 17 Chinese Uighurs, who cannot return to China, as an opening gesture. Mr Obama’s plan is for the most dangerous detainees – between 30 and 80 men – to be taken to the US for formal trials. This presents problems, however, as evidence against inmates such as Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed mastermind of the September 11 attacks, was obtained through duress.

Britain ready to take in Guantánamo prisoners - Times Online
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CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia is considering a U.S. request to re-settle inmates from the Guantanamo Bay military prison camp, but would apply strict security screening before accepting an unspecified number.

Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Friday the government had been approached along with Britain to accept inmates to help U.S. president-elect Barack Obama meet a promise to close the camp in a U.S. enclave on Cuba.

"For anyone to be accepted they would have to meet Australia's strict legal requirement and go through normal rigorous assessment processes," Gillard said in a statement.
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Australia says considering Guantanamo prison intake | Reuters
 
Maximus Zeebra said:
I still dont understand why the US cannot take them.. Its not logical that the UK should take them.
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I don't see the logical fallacy at play here, I think what you meant to say is that its not just.

IMO "you break it you bought it."
 
Laila said:
I see no problem with UK allowing some to seek asylum here.
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If they are genuine asylum seekers and total innocents like the Chinese Muslims then perhaps a few could come.

Immigration to England should be generally greatly reduced though.
 
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DeeJayH said:
why should i care?
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I don't think the EU or the Australian tax-payers will be footing the bill for rehousing and re-settling them. You will be paying compensation to any country that hosts the innocent who are released and homed elsewhere.

Personally I think it's a mistake the Foreign Office making this offer - though by some twisted logic I could understand them seeking refugee status as they may be harmed in the US for their political views and we do have an asylum agreement with the US.
 
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