Once again President Obama continued with his ill-conceived plan to close the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by transferring the thugs housed there to third party nations. In spite of evidence showing that a significant percentage of previously released prisoners have returned to the battlefield, the administration on Saturday sent six detainees, all with connections to Al Qaeda, to Uruguay. The Washington Post reports that Uruguayan President Jose Mujica considers the detainees to be refugees and that his government did not intend to monitor them. That might explain why Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel was reluctant to sign off on their transfer. Mujica agreed to take the six detainees in January. But, much to the frustration of the Obama White House, it wasnt until July that Hagel notified Congress of their impending release. By the way, according to the Associated Press, Uruguay may be the only country in the Americas without an Islamic mosque. The country may have as few as 300 Muslims out of a population of 3.3 million.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 00:40:05 +0000
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