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Renew Deal

(81,861 posts) Sat Jan 12, 2019, 11:54 AM Jan 2019

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What is going on at gitmo?

No one talks about that anymore. Has the number of prisoners changed?

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What is going on at gitmo? (Original Post) Renew Deal Jan 2019 OP

Hopefully they're getting a cell ready with a gold toilet. dem4decades Jan 2019 #1

+9999999999999999 Takket Jan 2019 #2

He's too dangerous to hold on US soil Renew Deal Jan 2019 #3

Gold spray paint on one that's already there. MineralMan Jan 2019 #4

A hole in the ground. Bluesaph Jan 2019 #5

Oooh! A squat toilet with footpads! I like it. MineralMan Jan 2019 #7

There are forty detainees left. No funding. MrsCoffee Jan 2019 #6

Just saw reference to it yesterday ... GeorgeGist Jan 2019 #8

Hopefully duforsure Jan 2019 #9

dem4decades

(11,296 posts)

1. Hopefully they're getting a cell ready with a gold toilet.

Reply to Renew Deal (Original post)

Sat Jan 12, 2019, 11:56 AM

Jan 2019

Takket

(21,575 posts)

2. +9999999999999999

Reply to dem4decades (Reply #1)

Sat Jan 12, 2019, 11:57 AM

Jan 2019

Renew Deal

(81,861 posts)

3. He's too dangerous to hold on US soil

Reply to dem4decades (Reply #1)

Sat Jan 12, 2019, 11:57 AM

Jan 2019

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)

4. Gold spray paint on one that's already there.

Reply to dem4decades (Reply #1)

Sat Jan 12, 2019, 11:57 AM

Jan 2019

Bluesaph

(703 posts)

5. A hole in the ground.

Reply to MineralMan (Reply #4)

Sat Jan 12, 2019, 12:00 PM

Jan 2019

Just a hole

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)

7. Oooh! A squat toilet with footpads! I like it.

Reply to Bluesaph (Reply #5)

Sat Jan 12, 2019, 12:14 PM

Jan 2019

I've used those in Turkey, when I was off-base there. I was stationed in Samsun, Turkey while serving in the USAF in 1967-8. If you were off the USAF base, finding a western toilet was almost impossible.

MrsCoffee

(5,803 posts)

6. There are forty detainees left. No funding.

Reply to Renew Deal (Original post)

Sat Jan 12, 2019, 12:04 PM

Jan 2019

Trump wants to keep it open another 25 years but they can barely take care of those there.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/inside-trump-s-guantanamo-where-military-waits-funding-enduring-mission-n941561

GeorgeGist

(25,321 posts)

8. Just saw reference to it yesterday ...

Reply to Renew Deal (Original post)

Sat Jan 12, 2019, 12:54 PM

Jan 2019

IIRC : 40 prisoners remain, 1 conviction since opening.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)

9. Hopefully

Reply to Renew Deal (Original post)

Sat Jan 12, 2019, 01:21 PM

Jan 2019

There getting it ready for a lot of new people being held there.

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