President and "hasty" decision

[Defender968]

You know I've been to Palau, it's a beautiful Island (well a chain of islands actually), it would be a shame to ruin it by dropping off a bunch of pissed off idiots. I sure hope they have a good plan, but I highly doubt it.

[alright4u]

No businessman could run a business like this country is being run now. Not a single one of us could manage our finances by spending more then we make every month.

[greenberetTFS]

Look guys give these GITMO rehabilitated future citizens a break.... All they are asking for is a chance to show us,but primarily BHO that his trust in them is well rewarded....... He should show us his faith in these recently released felons by putting them on the gardening crew or other utilities at the WH,close to his family as a show of gesture in his belief in their rehabilitation......... Come on guys,lets just forgive and forget,don't you think these poor souls have suffered enough..........

GB TFS

[Richard]

China wants 'em back...so they can attend a 5 minute human rights seminar to be held in a public square.

Richard's $.02

China Demands U.S. Send Guantanamo Uighurs Back
Reuters, 11 Jun 2009

China demanded on Thursday that the United States return 17 Chinese Muslims held at Guantanamo Bay to China and not send them to the Pacific island nation of Palau, which has agreed to accept the detainees.

Palau's government said it would accept the detainees, known as Uighurs, both as a humanitarian gesture and to help President Barack Obama fulfill his promise to close the controversial prison for foreign terrorism suspects on the U.S. Naval base in Cuba.

Many in the U.S. Congress oppose transferring them to U.S. soil when the prison is closed.

China sees the 17 as terrorist suspects, and has repeatedly called for their return.

"China demands the U.S. side implement relevant resolutions of the UN Security Council as well as live up to international anti-terrorism obligations, stop the transfer of these suspects to any third country and repatriate them to China," Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Qin Gang told a news conference.

"China opposes any third country accepting these suspects," he added.

"The 17 Chinese terrorist suspects held in Guantanamo are members of the East Turkistan Islamic Movement, which has been listed as a terrorist group by the UN Security Council," Qin said.

The Uighur detainees come from China's largely Muslim region of Xinjiang in the far west, a vastly different landscape from Palau, whose visitor's bureau describes it as the "world's most beautiful tropical paradise" with pristine beaches and unspoiled reefs and caves.

Despite being cleared of terrorism allegations, the Uighurs remained stuck at Guantanamo Bay while U.S. officials hunted for a country that would take them in.

The group of Uighurs had been ordered by a U.S. federal judge to be freed in the United States, but an appeals court ruled in April that the judge did not have the authority to give such an order.

Chinese officials have said Uighur militants seeking an independent "East Turkestan" are among the biggest threats to the country's stability, a key issue ahead of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic on October 1.

But human rights groups and Uighur activists say Beijing grossly exaggerates the threat to justify harsh controls.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090611/..._usa_uighurs_1