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All ready in Uruguay to receive Guantanamo prisoners, but public opinion is divided

Saturday, August 16th 2014 - 11:21 UTC
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Uruguay will be receiving very soon six men who have spent more than a decade locked up without charge at the US base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. The prisoners have been offered a refuge in Uruguay, where President José Mujica agreed as a humanitarian gesture to accept men that the U.S. has decided do not pose a threat but cannot return to their homelands. Read full article

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  • chronic

    Poor terrorists! They deserve some compassion!

    Aug 16th, 2014 - 12:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    @1. Yeah. Put them out of our misery. Permanently.

    Aug 16th, 2014 - 01:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • cornelius

    The lefties idiots are bringing terrorism to Latin America!

    Aug 16th, 2014 - 03:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    How many millions have the Americans spent on incarceration of these “ terrorists” and how many millions more has Obama paid to Uruguay to take them off his hands?

    Aug 16th, 2014 - 04:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    We have enough bat shit mad idiots in the government without importing medieval murderers.

    Ah! Just spotted an opportunity to get two birds with one stone.

    Once they learn that No Money Pepe agreed to their transfer to Uruguay for a relaxation on imports, thus selling them out perhaps that will put a Fatwa on him.

    Aug 16th, 2014 - 04:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Britworker

    Uruguay seem to be under the misapprehension that offering a fundamental religious fanatic hell bent on world conversion to islam a home, will make them truly grateful and responsible citizens................Wrong!

    They bring their wars with them. Well done Pepe!

    Aug 17th, 2014 - 10:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • lsolde

    By the time you find out, Uruguay, it will be too late.
    You just don't know what you're in for.
    You have your last chance now to say, NO.

    Aug 17th, 2014 - 11:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    Kill them.

    Aug 17th, 2014 - 12:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    @ 8 ilsen

    Although No Money Pepe is a murdering commie terrorist bastard he hasn't got the balls to have them killed.

    Even though it would be the correct thing to do the fact is La Tronca (his 'wife') has got bigger balls than him.

    Aug 17th, 2014 - 05:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ynsere

    Have those of you who come from democratic countries where the rule of law is paramount forgotten the concept of “innocent until proved guilty”? The U.S. has been unable to prove them guilty even while resorting to regular torture sessions.

    Aug 17th, 2014 - 11:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Lucdeluc

    Shouldn't they send them somewhere they would feel right at home,like London.

    Aug 18th, 2014 - 04:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    Keeeeeeell them!

    Aug 18th, 2014 - 07:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Lucdeluc

    Tower Hamlets would be perfect for these guys. They don't even have to bring their own ISIS flags. Apparently there is one already flying over the neighbourhood next to the pro Hamas flag.

    Aug 18th, 2014 - 09:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • cornelius

    @10 The rule Of law ? Guantanamo is a special status is like a ship that never gets to port is specially design to eliminate terrorist and when you get them in Uruguay they will form the special enclave of terrorism in Montevideo or Ciudad del Este (Three frontiers) and only then will send the CIA to eliminate them like we should.

    Aug 18th, 2014 - 11:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ynsere

    Cornelius @ 14

    I wonder if you could please explain the difference between yourself and, for example, the left-wing and right-wing thugs of Buenos Aires, other that you're too old and feeble to be personally involved in the slaughter you condone?
    You sir, are a traitor to the U.S. and its constitution. Shame on you!

    Aug 18th, 2014 - 05:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • cornelius

    @15 Pragmatism have no ideology war is for young men, old men pull the string and send young men die.
    The us send many prisoners' from Guantanamo back to shit hole they found them ,but it presents a logistical problem they will go back to terrorism.
    So I think is brilliant to send them to a place were they can be reachable, like Uruguay and in the process they may convince some locals to joint them in their struggle and then it will be Uruguay's problem and perhaps only then Uruguay will joint the struggle against this thugs and send them all to their 77 virgins.

    Aug 18th, 2014 - 06:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    @ 10 ynsere
    “Have those of you who come from democratic countries where the rule of law is paramount forgotten the concept of “innocent until proved guilty”?

    No, most certainly not, however I consider that the western rule of law is for essentially law abiding people who have within them a few ‘bad eggs’ that need to be made subject to the force of law.

    Yes, there will be ‘innocents’ if anybody caught within such a sweep can be totally ‘innocent’ that was made in the acknowledged terrorist areas by US and UK military.

    However the vast majority of these people are medieval maniacs whose sole object in life is to kill all Kafirs (non believers) for Allah and the prophet Mohammad (faeces and urine be upon him). They do not recognise western law or values, only the Quran which comes down to kill everybody not like us.

    I firmly believe we should apply THEIR intent back on them.

    When, like me, you miss death at the hands of these cretins by less than 15 minutes (London bus bombing) they deserve to meet Allah. I certainly do not want this vermin in the same country as my wife and me: we had enough of that in the UK.

    Aug 18th, 2014 - 07:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    KKEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLL THEM!!!!!!!!!!!

    Aug 18th, 2014 - 08:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Lucdeluc

    The Islamic state is franchising it's brand now. Not only do they have migrants born in the west . The US , Britain, Australia, Belgium , Germany etc fighting in Syria and Iraq ,they have effectively usurped Al Qaeda's role. Abu Baker Bashir and his moronic henchmen in Indonesia has sworn allegiance to Isis in prison. This bodes Ill for Australia . When these guys are released from Guantanamo they will enter this new world where Isis makes their former brand of terrorism look like a Walt Disney production. And Mujica thinks he's playing the world statesman by offering them refuge.

    Aug 18th, 2014 - 09:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Jack Bauer

    Maybe Mujica can get them a job at an explosives factory...to perfect their bomb-making skills....
    Jokes apart, it's highly unlikely that what these 'poor little fellas' are looking for is a job, unless it's to kill infidels....they'll be free to move around Uruguay, and will almost surely end up finding their way down to the Triple Frontier, where there are already loads of dormant terrorist cells to welcome them... They are not innocent and deserve the same punishment they were trying to inflict on others.

    Aug 18th, 2014 - 11:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • aussiesunshinee

    maybe they can be re-trained and sent back into the enemy lines as spies.......
    why waste them?? Anybody seen the DIRTY DOZEN!!??

    Aug 20th, 2014 - 01:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • alsy

    When the US ambassador here first announced the agreement, she commented that the prisoners coming here would not be dangerous. Unbelievably the Uruguay government and some of the population actually accept that delusional statement. Torture aside, If I had been held in the grim custody of Guantanamo for a decade+ I am sure I would be angry and VERY dangerous once I was released to roam freely on another continent.

    Aug 20th, 2014 - 11:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • cornelius

    @22 is by design they will be eliminated quickly.

    Aug 20th, 2014 - 04:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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