I would guess the Uighurs are, of course, free to leave the island once they are transported there.

Don’t get too far ahead of the game. George Soros will set them up with a nice Tiki Hut on the beach. Then, NBC, CNN and MSNBC will be doing nightly reports about how great the Gitmo release program is working for the Uighurs and be encouraging other countries to do the same for the remaining detainees. The game has just begun.

Aqua: I met a girl from Palau when I was passing through Guam once though. Very pretty girl, and they have bad tempers. They’re known for throwing rocks with deadly accuracy at those that upset them.

LOL! Yes, I wasn’t too worried about these 17 Chinese Muslims doing much to the Palau population. I had read about their fierce self-defense to outsiders infringing on their ways. Given a show down, I’d be putting my money on the Palau denizens.

I would guess the Uighurs are, of course, free to leave the island once they are transported there. What’s to prevent them from showing up on some “jihad” battlefield… whether against China or the US… in the future? Unless, of course, they find life on an island paradise far more inviting than jihad.

First:

The Uighurs were captured in an AQ training camp, by their own admission training for jihad against China.

The 17 men were picked up in the training camps in Afghanistan where they were preparing for Jihad against China. They were cleared for release, in part, because their supporters claim the United States is not their direct enemy.

Or perhaps you think they scheduled their vacation at an AQ training camp, where they were picked up? Why else do you think they were there?

You will see by the same link that, if they didn’t consider the US their enemy before, they certainly consider us an enemy now, saying the US is worse than Hitler, and that …Obama is a communist or a democrat? We have same operation in China.”

Second:

For Obama to bring anyone into this country who is “… any alien who has received military-type training from or on behalf of a terrorist organization is the antithesis to federal law, as their training at the behest of AQ is a deportable and criminal offense.

This is federal law per the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, enacted 12/17/04.

Subtitle D – Immigration Reform

Section 5401 –
Provides enhanced criminal penalties for unlawfully bringing in and harboring aliens in cases where: (1) the offense is part of an ongoing commercial organization or enterprise; (2) aliens were transported in groups of ten or more; (3) aliens were transported in a manner that endangered their lives; or (4) the aliens presented a life-threatening health risk to the people of the United States.

Requires the Secretary to implement an outreach program to educate the public in the United States and abroad about the penalties for unlawfully bringing in and harboring aliens.

Section 5402 –
Renders deportable any alien who has received military-type training from or on behalf of a terrorist organization.

Section 5403 –
Requires the Comptroller General to study and report on the extent to which weaknesses in the asylum system and the withholding of removal system have been or could be exploited by aliens with terrorist ties. Gives the Comptroller General access, for purposes of such study, to the applications and administrative and judicial records of alien applicants for asylum and withholding of removal.

For the record, this bill passed both Senate and House with overwhelming bipartisan majorities. The Senate was 96 to 2 nays, with John Kerry and John Edwards not voting. They were busy campaigning instead of weighing in on Congressional terrorism prevention matters.

In the House it was 336 ayes, 150 GOP and 185 Dems. 22 refused to vote, of which 14 were Dems.

Obama has consistently placed his admin up above the law, and Congress has failed to exercise mandated oversight… as is their Constitutional duty under the separation of powers. He has illegally appropriated funds from TARP for the auto industries, he has usurped bankruptcy laws as Executive Branch, he has over 200 “czars” on the WH staff initiating policy without any Congressional oversight, and he apparently is clueless to the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act because it interferes with his rash decision to close Gitmo without a plan for relocating and prosecuting the detainees.

We are a nation of laws, not feel-good emotions. You, however, don’t seem to know the difference.

Pete seems to be laboring under the delusion that in order to be a terrorist you have to have an Al Quaeda membership card.

I wonder if Bill Ayers knows that.

I was certified in Okinawa in ‘84. One of the most beautiful places to dive in the world. I’ve dreamed of going to Truk and Palau forever. I met a girl from Palau when I was passing through Guam once though. Very pretty girl, and they have bad tempers. They’re known for throwing rocks with deadly accuracy at those that upset them.

@Pete Some of the Uighars were caught at an AQ training camp. I don’t think anyone said they were AQ.

“Paying for what you spend is basic common sense,” Obama said.
Keeping GITMO open seems like basic common sense to me.
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I read somewhere (sorry, forget where) that these bozos were given a TV to watch a soccor game. They saw a woman on the screen with bare arms and destroyed the TV. Yeah, way to go, Obama. Send them to a tourist destination where people wear scimpy clothes. That will put paid to this island’s economy. These nuts should not be turned loose to prey on normal people.

If he gives you the $200 mil (or a significant fraction) you’ll probably even be willing to give ‘em your house, too.

Obama has no conscience.