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Change we can believe in, eh? On Jan 22, 2010, at 12:15 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > NY Times, January 22, 2010 > Detainees Will Still Be Held, but Not Tried, Official Says > By CHARLIE SAVAGE > > WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has decided to continue to > imprison without trials nearly 50 detainees at the Guantánamo Bay > military prison in Cuba because a high-level task force has > concluded that they are too difficult to prosecute but too > dangerous to release, an administration official said on Thursday. > > However, the administration has decided that nearly 40 other > detainees should be prosecuted for terrorism or related war > crimes. And the remaining prisoners, about 110 men, should be > repatriated or transferred to other countries for possible > release, the official said, who spoke on the condition of > anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about the numbers. > > There are just under 200 detainees left at the detention center. > > President Obama established the task force shortly after his > inauguration last year as part of his administration’s effort to > deal with the detainee issues left behind by the Bush > administration. It was facing a deadline of Friday to complete its > work. > > For the past year, national-security and law-enforcement officials > under the direction of Matthew G. Olsen, a Justice Department > lawyer, have been pulling together scattered files for each > detainee at Guantánamo. They evaluated any evidence against each > man, the perceived threat he might pose if released, and the > possibility of successfully prosecuting him. > > The group made recommendations that were then evaluated by senior > administration officials, led by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. > > But the determination about which category to put each detainee in > leaves other questions unanswered. For example, of the roughly 110 > detainees who are set to be transferred to other countries, about > 30 are Yemenis, the official said. The administration recently > halted transfers to Yemen in the wake of the attempted bombing of > an airplane bound for Detroit on Christmas — a plot believed to > have been developed by an affiliate of Al Qaeda based in Yemen. > > In addition, Mr. Holder is charged with deciding whether the > prisoners who are to be prosecuted should face a civilian trial or > a military commission. In November, he announced that five > detainees would face a military commission and five others — > including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of > the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 — would be prosecuted in > federal court. > > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: [email protected] > Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/ > marxism/biastg%40embarqmail.com ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
