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2006-05-06 Home Front: WoT

US sends Chinese Guantanamo detainees to Albania

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Posted by Fred 2006-05-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#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|| 2006-05-06 00:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Agreed on that last part, OS.

Posted by lotp 2006-05-06 09:09|| 2006-05-06 09:09|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-05-06 10:03|| Front Page Top

#4 You'll never hear Osama or Zawahiri call for jihad against the Chinese though...

Posted by john 2006-05-06 13:34|| 2006-05-06 13:34|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-05-06 13:37|| Front Page Top

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

Yet.

Posted by Fordesque 2006-05-06 14:59|| 2006-05-06 14:59|| Front Page Top

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