royalgazette.com - 6/11/2009
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Breaking News: Premier's statement on Guantanamo Bay This is the Premier’s statement on the four Chinese Muslims allowed to settle in Bermuda from Guantanamo Bay. This year of 2009 marks four hundred years of friendship between the United States and Bermuda. Our two countries have seen identical ...
royalgazette.com - 6/12/2009
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Brown: There was no 'quid quo pro' By
Mikaela Ian Pearman Four Chinese Muslims released from Guantánamo...
Bay arrived in Bermuda yesterday sparking a huge row overseas and on the Island. Premier Ewart Brown announced the four men Huzaifa Parhat, Abdul ...
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royalgazette.com - 6/12/2009
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Breaking News: UBP proposes motion of no confidence
The United Bermuda Party today moved for a motion...
of no confidence against the Government led by Premier Ewart Brown. Opposition leader Kim Swan proposed the motion in the House of Assembly this ...
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The Royal Gazette
johnboehner.house.gov - 6/9/2009
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Boehner Statement on Importation of First Guantanamo Bay
Terrorist Prisoner Jun 9, 2009 Washington - Congressman John...
Boehner (R-West Chester) today issued the following statement on reports that Guantanamo Bay terrorist prisoner Ahmed Khalfan ...
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Welcoming the Uighurs
Ben Smith's Blog —
Bermudan Premier Dr. Ewart Brown has a statement out this morning on his country's decision to accept four Uighur detainees, casting it as part of the rollback of the Bush era of detentions and largely as a matter of principle, though he notes the U.S. will "bear the cost surrounding relocation."
From the statement:
With the signing of his first Executive Order as President, President Obama set in motion the closure of the now infamous prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Of the prisoners held there many are innocent men, held without trial or any form of due process; many are refugees from their own lands whose political views are contrary to the regimes in power there. They ...
No Comment from Bermuda Tourism Bureau on Gitmo Release
Weekly Standard Blog —
... Officials at the department declined to comment and referred us to the Royal Gazette, where Bermuda premier Dr. Ewart Brown has provided an official statement. Brown claims that "The United States Government will bear the cost surrounding this relocation"--but there's been no indication whether or not that "cost" includes potential losses due to a Gitmo-related hit taken by the tourism industry. ...
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