Nobody Wants Guantanamo Bay ‘Detainees’

Via The Australian:

After formally rebuffing for the second time the Bush administration on taking former terror suspects being held at Guantanamo, Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Australia would consider subsequent requests from the US as it tries to close the notorious island prison.

But Ms Gillard played down the prospect of accepting any former prisoners.

“We will consider any future requests on a case by case basis against these stringent criteria for both national security and immigration,” she said.

National security issue? These guys are so bad, nobody wants the 60 that have been cleared for release.

“We realise that a lot of the people coming aren’t the kind of people you might want, so there are no negative signs being hung on this,” the spokesman told The Australian.

The Bush administration has been looking at ways to close Guantanamo for the past 12 months, including asking more than 100 countries if they might consider taking some of the 60 or so detainees already cleared for release but facing possible persecution if they were returned to their homeland.

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