Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Gitmo detainees seek asylum

This is a news story I found on cnn.com: http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/03/06/gitmo.cant.go.home.ap/index.html
The gist of the story is that many Muslim detainees currently held at Guantanamo Bay have been pleading with authorities to be given political asylum in the US. Now, I'm sure it isn't the wisest course of action to release suspected terrorists and Al-Qaeda operatives into the US, but this story does prove a great point. If the UN is so concerned about alleged abuse of the detainees, they should ask why the alleged "victims" of torture on a horrifying scale are begging their torturers to not make them go back home where they claim they will face almost certain death. Also goes to show that if these requests are genuine, even an Islamofascist would rather live in the US than his own country. As Reagan so well put it, truly a "shining city on a hill."

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