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Home Front: WoT
US sends Chinese Guantanamo detainees to Albania
2006-05-06
The US has released five Chinese Muslim men from Guantanamo Bay and sent them to Albania, declining to send them back to China out of concern they would face persecution.
Who the hell gives a squat if they face persecution?
The men are ethnic Uighurs, from Xinjiang in far-western China. Many Muslim Uighurs want greater autonomy for the region and some want independence from China.
But not all are terrorists. Not even most.
The Chinese Government has waged a relentless campaign against what it calls the violent separatist activities of the Uighurs. The Pentagon said in a statement: "The United States has done the utmost to ensure that the Uighurs will be treated humanely upon release. Our key objective has been to resettle the Uighurs in an environment that will permit them to rebuild their lives." The Pentagon says it has determined the five men should not be considered "enemy combatants".
Posted by:Fred

#6  More like not wanting to bite the hand that is arming them.

Yet.
Posted by: Fordesque   2006-05-06 14:59  

#5  Because China is not seen as decadent and ripe for conquest, as opposed to multiculturalist, relativist, PC, materialist, hollow, immigration-ridden West???

Please, don't tell me it's that, I'm not sure I could handle the Truth.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-05-06 13:37  

#4  You'll never hear Osama or Zawahiri call for jihad against the Chinese though...
Posted by: john   2006-05-06 13:34  

#3  Can't help but wonder if the Uighur plane bound for Albania stopped over at Pope AFB and Fort Bragg for extended "maintenance and crew rest" enroute.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-05-06 10:03  

#2  Agreed on that last part, OS.
Posted by: lotp   2006-05-06 09:09  

#1  What a little bird tells me is that these guys were picked up doing guerilla warfare in Afghanistan's border areas - problem is it was Chinese they were hunting, but got into wrong-place wrong-time with US forces. And they had gotten the Taliban to help them, so thats why they were picked up - initially they looked like Talib allies. Sleep with a dog and you're going to get fleas. But honestly the way the Chinese treat the Uighars, I can hardly blame them for going to any one who will give them guns and ammo.

Posted by: Oldspook   2006-05-06 00:08  

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