A U.S. court ruled recently that after seven years in captivity, 17 Uighur men captured in the terror war and held at Guantanamo Bay should be brought to Washington D.C. and released.
The Obama administration, acknowledging the court's authority to free the prisoners, asked the Supreme Court to ignore appeals by the men and argued that the lower court has no authority to order the men released in the United States.
In a brief urging the high court not to hear an appeal from the 17 men, the Justice Department said the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit acted correctly earlier this year when it overturned a district court judge's order that the men be brought to the U.S. for release.
"Petitioners would like the federal courts to order that they be brought to the United States, because they are unwilling to return to their home country. But they have no entitlement to that form of relief," the brief submitted by Solicitor General Elena Kagan said. "As this Court has recognized repeatedly, the decision whether to allow an allied abroad to enter the United States, and if so, under what terms, rests exclusively in the political Branches."
Diplomatic efforts to settle the prisoners overseas are continuing.
Lawyers for the Uighurs argue they represent no threat to the safety of U.S. citizens and have sponsors awaiting them who would ensure they could be settled safely into their communities.
The high court's decision on whether to accept the case is expected to turn on the authority of courts to order any detained individual brought to the United States outside the nation's existing immigration laws.
-- Stephen C. Webster
It's funny . . . all of a sudden the law matters regarding these men?.
Give them the deed to Camp David and Manhattan - they can live in camp and collect rents for Manhattan.
All the Gitmo prisoners are from .....someplace! Send them home!
And don't pretend to care what will happen to them...The USG is only scared that their home countries will Canonize them as Saints, when they learn what the Gitpunks have put them thru!
Then...wallah!... multiple-Osamas...everywhere!
Transfer them to Crawford, Texas and allow them to reside in Bush's Prairie Chapel bunkhouse tax free for the rest of their lives. I'm sure George has a lot of brush to clear.
Why can't they return to China?
'Why can't they return to China?'
Because the Chinese will torture them - as they do ANYONE identified with the Uighur cause. And, it is illegal to deport people to countries where they face the threat of torture or death - that's the LAW.
They are from the western islamic part of china - they have a similar story of colonization by the Chinese as do the Tibetans. Unfortunately the Uighurs do not have a Richard Gere to celebrate their struggle or else the world might care about them.
There are also news reports that these Uighurs were interrogated in GTMO by Chinese military brought in for the job - think about that for a while!
Free the Uighurs. it is the right thing to do.
What would Quentin Tarantino do?
"execute every last mutha fucking one of ya' "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwusCDRiDwE
just kidding. I agree with above commentor. They will be poster children of the Bush global facist dictatorship.
The cases cited by the Department of Just Us apply to normal situations. To understand this situation you would have to have been there?
Because the Chinese will torture them - as they do ANYONE identified with the Uighur cause. And, it is illegal to deport people to countries where they face the threat of torture or death - that's the LAW.
Since when has "the Law" mattered to these shitwhistles?
Obama, the gutless, cannot face the criticism that would ensue (has already begun) were he to bring them to the US.
He needs "victories." Or at least their most convincing simulacra. The Uighurs are NOT in that class of act. Freeing them would feed the Puke Propaganda Machine for months.
more details here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/5/31/737059/-Legal-Limbo-Could-Continue-for-Uighurs
"after seven years in captivity" without being charged.
I'd be really angry if someone did that to me.
Bush and Cheney: Torture and Disappearing People
The Bush/Cheney Criminals Tortured to get false intel to cover up their Iraq WMD Lies.
Would you support Torture after being forced to watch your wife or daughter being tortured or being threatened with Their rape?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/26/mi5-jamil-rahman-torture-bangladesh
http://tinyurl.com/qyqrjh
If our agents Torture them there, eventually they will Torture
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