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Thanks for the link Tena, I read the article and it seems like you said is going to take long...I just hope these people have a fair trial even though (personally) do not deserve it because what they have done but they have the right to be defended properly.

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I read in the Boston Sunday Globe yesterday that we are making plans to return some of the Guantanamo prisoners back to their home countries.  

Apparently, we will send back those we don't think committed any serious crimes.  The receiving government must agree to prosecute any crimes they have committed and also agree to keep an eye on their future activities.  

I don't know how many prisoners this will be and I don't remember if there was a time frame mentioned in the article.

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I read in the Boston Sunday Globe yesterday that we are making plans to return some of the Guantanamo prisoners back to their home countries.   Apparently, we will send back those we don't think committed any serious crimes.

I suppose that this is due to the International pressure to the USA over this issue.

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I don't care why we are doing it, but I do think it needs to be done.  It is not right for us to keep them indefinately.  Not to mention, the money it costs us and the personnel that we need deployed to care for them.  This has dragged on too long.  

Sometimes governments let things go on and on rather than make a decision, until someone makes a public stink. [offtopic]kind of reminds me of some things lds has said on other threads [/offtopic]

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I don't care why we are doing it, but I do think it needs to be done.  It is not right for us to keep them indefinately.  Not to mention, the money it costs us and the personnel that we need deployed to care for them.  This has dragged on too long.   Sometimes governments let things go on and on rather than make a decision, until someone makes a public stink.

I'm glad to hear there is something that will be done about it. I do hope they get the sentence they deserve....

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Sometimes governments let things go on and on rather than make a decision, until someone makes a public stink.

This is why protesting is such an important right. Could you imagine if nobody said anything about this or any other issue?

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Apparently there is an appeal to the US Supreme Court on behalf of some of the Gitmo prisoners.  (Gitmo is how the US military refer to Guantanamo Bay base and it is easier than spelling it out and since I am former Marine this is how I will now refer to it ).  

https://www.msnbc.com/news/991535.asp?0cv=CB10

One of the arguments US is using against this is that the prison isn't on US soil.  That just doesn't wash.  US military bases are considered US soil for legal purposes in all other cases that I know of.  Especially since we have that base and maintain it even though the Cuban government doesn't want us there.  

Now, there is a topic for another thread.  What right do we have to stay in Cuba if they don't want us there?  Do we have a valid lease and are just refusing to leave until the lease expires or are we just saying this is too important a location for us, no way we are leaving.  Any way that is off topic so never mind, but it does seem like we want our cake and eat it too when it comes to these prisoners.

Modification:  I just did some research - it is a perpetual lease which gives us the right to be there as long as we want only ending if we leave or if both parties agree to end it.  So, that answers that.

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Another article speaking of the release of prisoners from Gitmo. I will include a few quotes, but the article isn't too long so you might want to read the entire thing.

https://www.msnbc.com/news/997548.asp?0dm=N239N

There are still 660 prisoners. The recent release of 20 was followed up by transferring another 20 there from someplace else.

I agree with what they are trying to do, just not with how they are going about it. Also, 42 countries? Wow, that I did not know.

Where to we get off preventing them from having legal counsel? How is that justified?