U.S. Holding Talks (With 10 Muslim Governments) on Return of Detainees

[truthpusher]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/08/AR2005080801266.html?nav=rss_world/asia

U.S. Holding Talks on Return of Detainees
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Administration Close to Reaching Agreements With 10 Muslim Governments
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By Robin Wright and Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, August 9, 2005; A13
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The Bush administration is nearing agreements with 10 Muslim governments to return their detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, part of an effort to quicken the pace of transfers and increase the role of countries whose nationals are alleged terrorists. Washington hopes to conclude the agreements within the next two months, a senior State Department official said.

The United States is also pressing to persuade a European country to accept at least 15 Chinese Uigurs and two Uzbeks ready to be released, but who will not be returned to their home countries for fear they might be abused or tortured, the official said. Sweden last year turned down a request, a Swedish envoy said yesterday. Uigurs are a Muslim ethnic group with a large population in western China.

The agreements with the 10 countries would be in addition to previously reported negotiations with the three nations that have the largest populations at the U.S. prison facilities at Guantanamo -- Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. The United States completed the first such agreement last week with Afghanistan, which has 110 detainees in U.S. custody.

Washington also hopes to reach an agreement soon with Saudi Arabia, which has 129 detainees at Guantanamo. Talks with Pierre Prosper, the U.S. ambassador at large for war crimes, were suspended when Saudi King Fahd died last week.

The 10 other countries include Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait and Morocco. There are at least 19 men from these countries ready for transfer, according to the State Department. The United States hopes that the first round of negotiations will spark wider momentum to finish agreements in other countries, as happened last year with detainees from European countries, Prosper said yesterday in an interview.

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complete story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/08/AR2005080801266.html?nav=rss_world/asia

[rodeodance]

1. gitmo is getting to hot of a potato for BushCo.

[Lochloosa]

2. Getting a little pressure from the Repugs...2006 elections maybe...

bastards....

[ConcernedCanuk]

3. Wait and see - after they've returned the detainees?

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they'll just fill it up again with a new batch, probably already held incommunicado elsewhere as we speak

They ain't gonna leave such a fine instrument of US interrogation and intimidation stay empty now . .

meybe if they use underground cells so the world don't know . . . . .

shame on me!

The USS of A wouldn't do that

would they??

[DeepModem Mom]

4. kick

[The Stranger]

5. So they were held for three years and never charged?

Why aren't there people in the streets?