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Guantánamo suspects want to stay say officials
telegraph.co.uk - 19 days ago
Guantánamo suspects want to stay say officials
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Alex Spillius tours the once notorious detention centre where terrorist suspects now fear being sent to mainland US prisons.

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The Corner on National Review Online:  Pining for the Bush gulag -- By: Mark Steyn

Gates of Vienna:  Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/2/2009

Betsy's Page:  Guantanamo is so bad that some prisoners don't want to leave

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Pining for the Bush gulag -- By: Mark Steyn
The Corner on National Review Online — Here's a humanitarian cause I can get behind: Guantánamo Suspects Want To Stay, Say Officials As President Barack Obama's deadline to close Guantánamo looms, some occupants of the notorious detention centre would rather prolong their stay than be sent to maximum security prisons on the US mainland, according to camp officials. Will no one protect these unfortunate victims from the moral posturing of the American left, the Europeans, the global media and President Obama? ...

Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/2/2009
Gates of Vienna — ... Guantánamo Suspects Want to Stay, Say Officials As President Barack Obama’s deadline to close Guantánamo looms, some occupants of the notorious detention centre would rather prolong their stay than be sent to maximum security prisons on the US mainland, according to camp officials. ...

Guantanamo is so bad that some prisoners don't want to leave
Betsy's Page — How bad can Guantanamo be for the prisoners if s ome would rather stay there than be transferred to "supermax" facilities in the United States? Since 2005 an Arab American cultural adviser, who for security reasons is identified only by the name of Zak, has been employed at Guantánamo to liaise with detainees. He said that some detainees would rather stay put than go on trial in the US, where they would probably receive a life sentence or could wait years for a death sentence to be carried out. "They know there will not be the same privileges as here," he said. "Given the ...

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