AFP reports:
A US senator said Tuesday he would soon introduce legislation aimed at blocking the release on US soil of any detainees currently held at the Guantanamo Bay facility for suspected terrorists. “I intend to introduce legislation in the next few days to make sure that we establish a policy that will provide for no funding for the release of any of these individuals on US soil,” said Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss. The Georgia lawmaker said his bill aimed to reassure the US public that Guantanamo detainees are “not going to be re-released into their neighborhoods where they’re going to immediately form cells where they will seek to kill and harm Americans.” His comments came as a US official, who requested anonymity, said Obama plans to release into the United States some of the 17 Chinese Muslim Uighurs held at the facility for seven years but cleared for release.
My sense is that neither the administration nor its supporters really understand the scale of the political problem, let alone the national security problem, they have created through their insistence on “closing” the detention facility at Guantanamo. HT: Senatus
