Obama’s Plan to Close Gitmo Hits Snag
Most of us knew these problems would occur and warned about them. I guess now we get to say we told you so.
The Obama administration’s effort to return the largest group of Guantánamo detainees to Yemen, their home country, has stalled, creating a major new hurdle for the president’s plan to close the prison camp in Cuba by next January, American and Yemeni officials say.
“We’re at a complete impasse,” said one American official who is involved in the issue, speaking without authorization. “I don’t know that there’s a viable ‘Plan B.’ ”
The Yemeni government has asked Washington to return its detainees and has said it would need substantial aid to rehabilitate the men. But the Obama administration is increasingly skeptical of Yemen’s ability to provide adequate rehabilitation and security to supervise returned prisoners. In addition, American officials are wary of sending detainees to Yemen because of growing indications of Al Qaeda activity there.
No plan B, huh? We all saw how the plan to release Gitmo prisoners into the U.S. and provide them with welfare went over….like a lead balloon. Ed Morrissey points out how Yemen has proven to be a revolving door for Al Qaeda terrorists. And guess how many prisoners are from Yemen? 97!
Ed Morrissey sums it up:
Now, the Obama administration admits they have no Plan B. No wonder; it took Obama more than two years to discover what most of us had been screaming at the top of our lungs about Yemen and the terrorists. It will take at least that long for a viable Plan B to occur to them — which would to just keep Gitmo open and conduct the military tribunals that Congress authorized twice.
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Posted by Jay on April 23, 2009 8:02 pm
» Filed Under 1st Amendment, Barack Obama, Guantanamo Bay, National Security, News, Stupidity, War On Terror, Welfare, terrorism
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Hey, no problem. Just send them anywhere. They PROBABLY won’t come back to haunt us. Risking the lives of thousands of Americans is definitely worth preserving the civil liberties of these innocent Yemen guys. We should take this chance, right, America ?
Everyone knows that prisons in Yemin never hold the bad guys for long, they always escape and go on to commit more terrible deeds. We’ve seen this year after year. So now they want the bad guys, plus the US to finance their “rehabilitation”. Give me a bfreak.