Palau’s decision to accept the 17 Chinese Uighurs held at Guantanamo Bay, whom the United States and numerous other countries refused to take, may have been influenced by a generous foreign aid offer from the United States.
The Associated Press reports that “two U.S. officials, who spoke More…
And so ends a demagoguery-laced vignette from the Age of Terrorism, as Daphne and Weigel have been all over: the tiny Pacific archipelago of Palau has agreed to “resettl[e] and repatriat[e]” the 17 Uighur detainees housed at Guantanamo Bay whom the Bush administration no longer considered More…
While the Republicans in Congress are up in arms about the possibility that a handful of Uighurs will be released into the United States, it’s worth noting that these Chinese Muslims could have some disturbing stories to tell about their treatment at Guantanamo Bay.
Buried in More…
On Tuesday, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) got a meeting that he had been asking for since March — a briefing with the Department of Justice about plans to resettle 17 Uighurs, Chinese Muslims who have been detained at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay since 2002. Ever since the Obama More…
One of the running problems for the White House’s campaign to close Guantanamo Bay has been the objection of Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), who represents Langley in the House, to resettling 17 Uighur detainees in his district. According to Wolf’s spokesman, Daniel Scandling, the congressman has gotten no satisfactory More…
In an attempt to counter some of the more bizarre and fantastical claims being made about the Uighur prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, lawyer Sabin Willett writes a persuasive rebuttal in the New York Daily News today to those opposing his clients’ release by claiming the Uighurs are not only More…
The headline of a just-released Senate Republican Policy Committee document on what to do with Guantanamo Bay detainees:
Meet Your New Neighbor, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad?
There’s actually nothing in the 15-page paper suggesting that Khalid Sheikh Mohammad could be released into American society. There is, however, an exposition of the More…
Not by me, but by Hilzoy, who refutes practically every claim about the Uighur detainees at Guantanamo Bay that Newt Gingrich wrote about the other day.
Ryan Grim at The Huffington Post has a nice piece about former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s recent foray into opposing the resettlement of Uighur detainees, whom the Bush Pentagon considered a non-threat to national security. Grim quotes the Uighurs’ lawyer, Rushan Abbas, as conveying this message from the More…
The former Speaker of the House goes the Karl Rove route and gets a weekly column in a conservative editorial shop, at the Washington Examiner.
“I am excited and pleased to be joining The Examiner, which is among the bright new stars of American journalism,” Gingrich said. “This
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