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If the brig at Gitmo is closed, as many as 100 of the roughly 250 inmates there would be moved to the U.S. The rest could walk away because the evidence against them, while good enough to keep them incarcerated in a military prison as enemies of America, might be inadmissible in a criminal court on U.S. soil.
The best place for the detainees at the Guantanamo base is right where they are. Why waste $50 million in taxpayers' money for new construction costs, as well as the tens of millions that were already spent to build facilities that will be, in Gates' word, mothballed? To gain nothing but hollow political points?
At Gitmo, the detainees are free to face Mecca when they pray. They have access to Islamic reading material and eat hot halal — approved by Islamic law — meals.
They are not in stocks, stretched out on the rack or systematically beaten. They are exactly where they should be. Pragmatism, not politics, is what should determine their location.
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The clock is ticking, 1/21/10 is steadily marching closer. What will Obama do, that is the question. Will he uphold his written order to close Gitmo, or will he tick off a whole mess of followers and leave Gitmo open? Quandary or conundrum?
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