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| US Sends Four Guantanamo Prisoners Home To Afghanistan |
| 2014-12-22 |
| [Jpost] Four Afghans held for over a decade at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been sent home to Afghanistan, the Pentagon said on Saturday, the latest step in a slow-moving push by the B.O. regime to close the facility. The men were flown to Kabul overnight aboard a US military plane and released to Afghan authorities, the first such transfer of its kind to the war-torn country since 2009, a US official said. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 Grunter, I wouldn't be surprised. What better way to apologize to Castro for 53 years of embargo? |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2014-12-22 15:10 |
| #4 Is he planning to give Gitmo to Cuba? |
| Posted by: Grunter 2014-12-22 14:42 |
| #3 If you use the backward planning process, he'll need 90 to 120 days to clear U.S. Military personnel and equipment out of GITMO. If you factor in a formal hand-over ceremony, presidential advance team, etc, another week or two is required. The Democratic convention will take place on one of three dates; July 18, July 25 and August 22. I'd say he'll need to have all of the remaining prisoners repatriated and out of the way NLT June of 2016. This will provide maximum political crowing and 'Cuban normalization' fanfare, avenue of flags, etc, at the convention. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-12-22 12:51 |
| #2 Or it's a down payment for something, or someone, else. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-12-22 12:37 |
| #1 The Bergdahl payments continue. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-12-22 00:30 |