RSSSome Dems want Gitmo-Yemen transfers ended
From: The Washington Times | January 3, 2010
Some Democratic lawmakers who support closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, say the United States should reconsider whether to repatriate suspected terrorists from Yemen, given the al Qaeda activity in the poor Arab nation. President Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, said Sunday the transfers will continue if the administration deems them warranted. Six Yemenis who returned last month were released after the government there determined they were not a threat, officials in Yemen told the Associated Press. Mr. Obama has said an al Qaeda group operating in Yemen apparently was behind the plot to bring down a U.S.-bound ...
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