Germans Balking at Taking Guantánamo Detainees

Camp Delta, the fenced-in core of the Guantánamo prison. Angel Franco/The New York Times

From the New York Times:

German interior officials said that the inmates from the Guantánamo Bay detention center whom the United States wants Germany to accept could pose a major security risk because they had spent time in terrorist training camps in Afghanistan.

The United States has asked Germany to take 12 Chinese Uighurs, members of a Muslim minority located mostly in western China. The Uighurs have been persecuted by the Chinese authorities, according to human rights organizations, and American officials say they cannot be returned to China because they might be mistreated.

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My Comment: The Chinese have made it very clear that they want them .... so send them them there. Let us not lose sight of the fact that they were training in a terrorist camp when caught .... even though their target was China, their intent to commit murder was (and is) clear.

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