Judge Asks Status of Gitmo Detainees

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON Aug 25, 2005 — A federal judge called on the Bush administration Thursday to explain what it was doing about two detainees who are being held at Guantanamo Bay prison camp even though the military has concluded they are not enemy combatants.

A Justice Department lawyer, Terry Henry, said the two Chinese Muslims, in custody for over 3 1/2 years, will be kept at Guantanamo until the government finds a country to send them to.

The Uighur detainees, members of a minority in their native China, fear persecution if they are returned to their homeland.

"We can continue to hold them as long as it takes," Henry told U.S. District Judge James Robertson.

The judge suggested it was not enough for the two men to be held in improved conditions in a renovated section of Guantanamo Bay that has videogames, a microwave, ice cream and a soccer field for the 10 detainees housed there. All have been found not to be enemy combatants.

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[hootinholler]

1. Why not put them up in Havana for a while?

Right there on the beach, I think they deserve it.

-Hoot