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 Gitmo Prisoners Transferred Sans British ApprovalPosted on Jun 12, 2009
An embarrassed London is reviewing the legal basis of its relations with Bermuda following the transfer of four Guantanamo prisoners—a group of Chinese Muslims known as Uighurs—to Britain’s paradisiacal overseas territory. The men have been sent there as foreign guest workers, but apparently British officials never got the memo.
Also check out how the Chinese are reacting to news that 13 Chinese Muslims from Guantanamo have been resettled on Palau, and how islanders there feel about their new neighbors:
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By Sepharad, June 14 at 2:45 am #
Most of our international allies have been criticizing the existence of Gitmo for a very long time. Now that the Obama administration is trying to close the place, no one is happy with the dispersal of the dangerous inmates who just weeks ago were being portrayed at persecuted innocents.
PSmith, I must have missed Obama kicking Brown. Why?
Oh—Basil Fawlty is one of my favorite characters. Maybe doing a Basil Fawlty in public would actually reboot his career.
Report thisBy MvGuy, June 13 at 8:33 pm #
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I’m in agreement with PSMITH for the most part….
And..let me add my disdain & outright contempt of
those with blood of Afghan children on their hands
The Afghans will NEVER forgive the British this..
It’s the THIRD time that they are there killing
Afghans. A sort of thing that makes me yearn
for the day when outraged and wronged peoples be
able to avenge themselves on the far away empires
that MURDER their citizens with small kiloton
disruption….. The world will become
a far politer planet…..
Report thisBy PSmith, June 13 at 5:44 am #
GORDON GETS A GOOD THRASHING
Poor old Gordon Brown. Hanging on to power as British Prime Minister by his fingernails. His own party Labour Party full of those plotting against him. And now the master holding his leash has just given him a good kicking. Gordon Brown—and Britain’s—status as the US’s lapdog has been downgraded to the US’s animal football. Call the RSPCA.
What did Gordon do to deserve this treatment? Only bend over backwards to enable Cheney’s war crimes and enabling lies for the last eight years. Along with Tony Blair.
Perhaps Obama, who cannot openly take out his—or the US’s people’s—spleen on the Neocons at home, who are now backing him while he continues their wars and policies, is showing that he is human after all. And kicking Gordon makes him feel better. Particularly when he is already down and on the way out. Politics certainly is a dirty game. Jackals have more solidarity.
Pity the US people could care less. But some of us enjoy it. Though we would pay serious money if were ‘our Tony’ instead.
On top of this ignominy, French President Sarkozy—Neocon stooge and US poodle—has replaced the UK as the US’s favourite European lapdog. C’est la guerre.
All in all, Gordon was looking a bit stressed at the D-Day ‘celebrations’—wake, more like—Let’s hope that he doesn’t do a Basil Fawlty. At least not in public. Then it really will be all over for his political career.
Basil Fawlty - ‘A Damn Good Thrashing’.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmQMYMcY6nI
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