President Obama’s Guantanamo Policy Under Fire
Camp Delta area at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba. Photo AFP
WASHINGTON — Three senior US senators on Tuesday called on President Barack Obama to stop transferring Guantanamo detainees to Yemen until Sanaa can guarantee that they will not return to the battlefield.
Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Joseph Lieberman — the first two Republicans and the third a political independent — said that such transfers are “highly unwise and ill-considered.”
Close to half of the 198 “war on terror” detainees still at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — which Obama has vowed to close — are from Yemen.
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Guantanamo policy under fire over Yemen terrorist links — ABC News (Australia)
Airline attack complicates Guantanamo closing — CBC
Former Gitmo detainees investigated in airline bombing plot — CNN
Rep Urges U.S. to Stop Sending Guantanamo Detainees to Yemen — FOX News
Airliner plot complicates Guantanamo closing — Baltimore Sun
Obama asked not to send detainees to Yemen — UPI
ANALYSIS: Obama’s plan to shut Guantanamo suffers yet another blow — M&C
Obama Under Pressure to Prevent Yemeni Detainees From Returning Home — FOX News
Former Guantanamo detainees fuel growing al-Qaeda cell — Washington Post
Yemeni links to airliner plot threaten US efforts to empty Guantanamo — Canadian Press
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