Photo from Salon.comFrom The Washington Post:
President Obama will gather tomorrow with victims and families of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and U.S.S. Cole bombing for a face-to-face meeting as his administration struggles to decide how to handle detainees at Guatanamo Bay, Cuba, several of those invited said.
The previously undisclosed meeting at the White House tomorrow afternoon will give the new president a chance to explain his decision to close the controversial prison facility where the U.S. has placed many suspected terrorists since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Obama has been assailed by conservative critics who say the decision to close the facility within a year will lead to putting many of those terrorists back on the street. In a recent interview, former vice president Dick Cheney, an architect of the Bush administration's war on terror, criticized the decision as reckless.
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My Comment: If the reports that he is ordering the dropping of charges against the chief suspect in the U.S.S. Cole are true .... there will not be enough Secret Service agents in the room to protect him.
Update: Obama to meet with 9/11 survivors, Cole commander -- McClatchy Newspapers
My Comment#2: As I had expected. This group will be represented by many who are in favor of the President's policies, with a sprinkling of those who are against. This is political theatrics at its worse.