According to a German newspaper, Deutsche Welle, German Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has stated that Washington has not provided him with enough information for him to act on resettling Guantanamo inmates in Germany. Washington had asked German to resettle nine Chinese Muslims (Uighurs) held at Guantanamo. We are not willing to send them back to China for fear that they will be killed or tortured.
Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann is opposed to taking in any of the Uighur detainees. The article goes on to explain:
"...security intelligence showed seven of the nine Uighurs reportedly being considered for resettlement in Germany had been trained in camps of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) and had contacts to militant Islamist organisations."
These are the terrorists President Obama originally wanted to release in northern Virginia and provide financial aid for their resettlement. Is it any surprise that the countries of the world are not interested in bringing trained terrorists into their country?
There are two options in dealing with captured terrorists (men that you are sure are trained terrorists)--you can kill them on the spot or you can ship them to Guantanamo where they cannot do any damage to innocent civilians. If you close down Guantanamo, you are going to see more terrorists shot in combat situations rather than taken prisoner. No country with an eye for its own safety and the safety of its civilian population is going to want to take in a person who is known to have terrorist training.
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