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August 19, 2006
Albania: Uighur Jihadis Reach Albania
One of Europe's Muslim nations accepts fellow Muslims, even if they might be terrorists. Notice the Bush administration made this move after better options--keeping them in GITMO, sending them back to China--were closed by our stupidly altruistic legal system: Albania takes the men no one wants
FIVE Asian men who had been detained at Guantanamo Bay for years as dangerous terrorists have been sent to Albania, a poor Balkan nation eager to please Washington.Their arrival in Albania involved intense behind-the-scenes diplomatic activity in Washington, Ottawa, Albania's capital Tirana, Beijing and elsewhere. Their move has implications for a US Appeals Court, NATO and the relations of several European countries with China, while also underlining the Bush Administration's difficulties in reducing the population of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp as international calls for it to be closed increase.[...]
Posted by Ruy Diaz at August 19, 2006 5:16 PM
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