Here's the headline: "Freed Guantánamo prisoners taunt US as closure plan falls apart"
Falls apart...
Falls apart???
So...there's a quote in this piece saying conclusively that the President has abandoned his plans to close GITMO?
Oh, there's not?
So what the @$%@#$ are you talking about??
There's plenty of stuff (stuff not being the same thing as quotes mind you) about EU Ministers saying they won't take back GITMO Prisoners:
At a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels yesterday, the idea of taking in about 60 Guantánamo inmates cleared for release received a far from enthusiastic response, with some members, including Britain, appearing to reject the prospect.
But, looking at other papers you get a slightly different response...and by different, by which I mean completely the opposite:
"This is an American problem and they have to solve it but we'll be ready to help if necessary … I think the answer of the EU will be yes," Javier Solana said before the gathering of European foreign ministers, when asked whether the EU could take some former Guantánamo prisoners.
In case the Times of London isn't familiar with the concept, that was a quote...
Granted, there is some resistance to the proposal. The Guardian goes as far as to say that the issue threatens to split the E.U., but...
Those harbouring doubts – including Germany, Austria and the Netherlands – are concerned about the possibility of accepting former inmates who might still prove a danger, a risk highlighted when it emerged last week that Said Ali al-Shihri, who was released from Guantánamo in 2007, is now al-Qaida's deputy leader in Yemen.
"There is no question that chief responsibility to do with solving the problem of this detention centre lies with those who set it up, the Americans themselves," Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the German foreign minister, said. "But it is also a question of our credibility of whether we support the dismantling of this American camp or not."
