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| Germany could take Gitmo inmates |
| By Bloomberg |
| Published: 12/22/2008 |
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GERMANY - Germany is considering taking in inmates from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to assist President-elect Barack Obama’s plans to shut the U.S. prison. German and U.S. officials will have “intensive discussions” about what to do with inmates considered innocent who cannot return to their home countries, German government spokesman Thomas Steg said today. “There will be prisoners who will neither want to remain in the U.S. nor will be able to return home,” Steg told reporters in Berlin. He said the considerations were humanitarian, as a way to ease the closure of the six-year-old prison should the issue of repatriation become a legal barrier. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has asked his staff to draw up a plan for closing Guantanamo should Obama order a shutdown as president. Gates, who will stay on at the Pentagon under Obama, wants to have a plan in hand in case the president- elect opts for a quick closure of the detention facility, Geoff Morrell, a Defense Department spokesman, said Dec. 18. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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