Guantanamo Prisoners Set To Leave Amid Trade Furor

[Lakhota]

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — 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.

"All I need is the names and a country and we could do it all very, very efficiently," the commander of U.S. Southern Command, Marine Gen. John F. Kelly, said in an interview Saturday at the start of a visit to the base he oversees.

But the current furor over the trade of the five Taliban prisoners for American Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl may have complicated the situation.

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Obama knew the obvious - that GITMO would soon be closed and prisoners released. He got Bowe Bergdahl out alive.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

GITMO should have been closed, before it was opened.

 

[DiamondDave]

Yeah.. 3 simple words

not


gonna


happen

 

[Lakhota]

Yeah.. 3 simple words

not


gonna


happen

It will happen. GITMO has been an embarrassing nightmare since it was opened and has only served as a great recruiting tool for terrorists.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

It will happen. GITMO has been an embarrassing nightmare since it was opened and has only served as a great recruiting tool for terrorists.

Yep. Bin Laden got what he wanted, a worldwide war with the Muslims, in spades.

 

[Lakhota]

It will happen. GITMO has been an embarrassing nightmare since it was opened and has only served as a great recruiting tool for terrorists.

Yep. Bin Laden got what he wanted, a worldwide war with the Muslims, in spades.

Amen!