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National Security and Civil Liberties - Treatment of Detainees

Guantanamo: Three Uighurs to be sent to Slovakia, 155 detainees remain

The United States released the last three ethnic Uighurs from its military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on Tuesday.

The three men will be sent to Slovakia, resolving a diplomatic crisis that has kept the innocent men imprisoned since 2008 when a judge ordered their release.

They were the last of 22 Uighurs from China who were detained by American forces during the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and brought to Guantanamo. The men were kept for years without trial before being deemed as safe for release by a judge.

Finding them a new home after Guantanamo proved difficult.

The men had fled to Afghanistan from China, where they have been persecuted by the government.

Heavy lobbying from China to have the men returned has added to the difficulties in releasing the men.

Those Uighurs who possessed other citizenship found homes, whereas 22 others with Chinese citizenship faced a much more difficult situation.

More from GlobalPost: Obama calls on Congress to do more on Guantanamo Bay

After their release was stalled, a judge ordered them sent to the United States – a move that was blocked by Congress and the Bush administration.

A diplomatic push saw many of them eventually find homes in places like Palau, Bermuda, El Salvador and Switzerland, their lives beginning anew in places far from home.

The three men who stayed in Guantanamo had refused to be transferred to Bermuda or Palau. The Associated Press reported that the men sought to be closer to Uighur communities in Europe.

Slovakia has now agreed to take the men. The EU and NATO member had previously accepted three other Guantanamo prisoners in 2010.

“Slovakia deserves a lot of credit because they were willing to do what large countries like the United States, Canada and Germany were unwilling to do, which was to resist diplomatic pressure from China and the stigma of Guantanamo,” Wells Dixon, a lawyer with the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, told the Associated Press.

US officials thanked Slovakia on Tuesday for agreeing to take the men.

“These three resettlements are an important step in implementing President Obama’s directive to close the Guantanamo detention facility,” said Clifford Sloan, Department of State Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure.

Their release has brought the number of detainees at the US base to 155 from a high of 750. Nine prisoners were released in December.

Only a handful of the remaining prisoners have been charged with terrorism offenses with another 80 cleared for release – 60 of which are from Yemen.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/131231/guantanamo-three-uighurs-be-sent-slovakia-155-de

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Guantanamo: Three Uighurs to be sent to Slovakia, 155 detainees remain

Guantanamo: Three Uighurs to be sent to Slovakia, 155 detainees remain

The United States released the last three ethnic Uighurs from its military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on Tuesday.

The three men will be sent to Slovakia, resolving a diplomatic crisis that has kept the innocent men imprisoned since 2008 when a judge ordered their release.

They were the last of 22 Uighurs from China who were detained by American forces during the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and brought to Guantanamo. The men were kept for years without trial before being deemed as safe for release by a judge.

Finding them a new home after Guantanamo proved difficult.

The men had fled to Afghanistan from China, where they have been persecuted by the government.

Heavy lobbying from China to have the men returned has added to the difficulties in releasing the men.

Those Uighurs who possessed other citizenship found homes, whereas 22 others with Chinese citizenship faced a much more difficult situation.

More from GlobalPost: Obama calls on Congress to do more on Guantanamo Bay

After their release was stalled, a judge ordered them sent to the United States – a move that was blocked by Congress and the Bush administration.

A diplomatic push saw many of them eventually find homes in places like Palau, Bermuda, El Salvador and Switzerland, their lives beginning anew in places far from home.

The three men who stayed in Guantanamo had refused to be transferred to Bermuda or Palau. The Associated Press reported that the men sought to be closer to Uighur communities in Europe.

Slovakia has now agreed to take the men. The EU and NATO member had previously accepted three other Guantanamo prisoners in 2010.

“Slovakia deserves a lot of credit because they were willing to do what large countries like the United States, Canada and Germany were unwilling to do, which was to resist diplomatic pressure from China and the stigma of Guantanamo,” Wells Dixon, a lawyer with the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, told the Associated Press.

US officials thanked Slovakia on Tuesday for agreeing to take the men.

“These three resettlements are an important step in implementing President Obama’s directive to close the Guantanamo detention facility,” said Clifford Sloan, Department of State Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure.

Their release has brought the number of detainees at the US base to 155 from a high of 750. Nine prisoners were released in December.

Only a handful of the remaining prisoners have been charged with terrorism offenses with another 80 cleared for release – 60 of which are from Yemen.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/131231/guantanamo-three-uighurs-be-sent-slovakia-155-de

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Guantanamo: Three Uighurs to be sent to Slovakia, 155 detainees remain

The CIA Trained Gitmo Detainees as Double Agents at a Secret Facility Named After a Beatles Song

The CIA Trained Gitmo Detainees as Double Agents at a Secret Facility Named After a Beatles Song
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Between 2003 and 2006, the CIA recruited and trained a small number of Guantanamo Bay detainees as double agents, according to an Associated Press report published on Tuesday. The program was run out of a clandestine facility near the military prison, and—according to US officials—was useful in gathering intel for targeting and killing Al Qaeda leaders. (CIA officers would typically meet with double agents in Afghanistan.)

“Jail time at Guantanamo is a new asset on the résumés of many double agents, security officials say—an ultimate sign of credibility that often makes them revered and trusted among senior operatives,” another AP story, from 2010, reads.

In 2009, President Obama ordered a review of the double agents recruited during the Gitmo program because the agents provided intel used in drone-strike operations, according to one of the officials interviewed. But perhaps the most attention-grabbing part of the AP‘s new investigation is that the CIA’s old double-agent facility was nicknamed after a Beatles song.

Here’s the relevant text from the AP (emphasis mine):

The program was carried out in a secret facility built a few hundred yards from the administrative offices of the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The eight small cottages were hidden behind a ridge covered in thick scrub and cactus.

The program and the handful of men who passed through these cottages had various official CIA code names.

But those who were aware of the cluster of cottages knew it best by its sobriquet: Penny Lane.

It was a nod to the classic Beatles song and a riff on the CIA’s other secret facility at Guantanamo Bay, a prison known as Strawberry Fields.

Paul McCartney, the principal songwriter for “Penny Lane,” did not immediately respond to a request for comment on how he felt about this.

Political Mojo | Mother Jones

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