Posted by
Always To The Right on Wednesday, June 20, 2007 7:59:39 PM
From opinionjournal.com. They want us to close Guantanamo,
but then do what with the people? Send them to Disneyland?
The Grass Is Always Greener
http://www.miamiherald.com/509/story/145227.html
"Six long-held captives at Guantánamo were sent home, two to Tunisia
and four to Yemen, the Pentagon said Tuesday, swiftly drawing
denunciations from human rights groups," the Miami Herald reports:
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The Center for Constitutional Rights in New York identified one of the
Tunisians as detainee Abdullah bin Omar, 51, and said his return "put
him at grave risk for torture and abuse." . . .
Human Rights Watch also raised concerns.
"Most of the detainees desperately want to go home. But there are a
small number who are at such grave risk of torture that they would rather
stay in Guantánamo," said Jennifer Daskal, advocacy director in
Washington. . . .
She urged the Pentagon to establish a ``transparent process for this
small set of detainees to raise fears of torture and have their claims
evaluated, before the U.S. government sends people back to a fate worse
than Guantánamo.''
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A fate worse than Guantanamo? Who knew there was such a thing? Sad to
say, after all the "human rights" groups' complaints about "torture" at
Guantanamo, no one can take them seriously when they warn about the
real thing. Didn't Jennifer Faskal's parents ever read her the story of
the boy who cried wolf?