June 11, 2009
Posted: June 11th, 2009 09:38 AM ET

WASHINGTON (CNN) - Four Chinese nationals of Uighur ethnicity held at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility have been resettled in Bermuda, the Justice Department announced Thursday.

They were among 17 Uighur detainees at the facility set up to hold terror suspects.

Filed under: Gitmo


Independent thinker   June 11th, 2009 11:17 am ET

The fact of the matter is that these men, rightly or wrongly, remain prisoners against their will. Moving them to Bermuda from Guantanamo is still a form of imprisonment. This form of action may 'technically' fulfill the President's pledge to close Guantanamo, but it does not address the underlying issue of what to do with the men currently held in Guantanamo. They should not be moved around like pieces on a chess board simply for political expediency. Where is the legal process, Mr. Obama? Also, someone needs to remind the justice department that the last time the world heard the word 'resettled' used by a government, it was 1930s Germany. Poor choice of words....

history repeats   June 11th, 2009 11:11 am ET

its so bad that people were held there and had to go through the nightmare of the treatment they recieved, some for years, and they werent found guilty of anything!!

ken   June 11th, 2009 11:07 am ET

Are they just letting these terrorists go now? When we said we wanted you to tell us where you were going to put these terrorists, we didn't think you'd just let them go. A plan simply to have a plan isn't always good.

BK   June 11th, 2009 11:01 am ET

Obama spending 200 million dollars of our tax money to put the rest on paradise island. Obama is not interested in protecting the US. He wants to protect the terrorists and the muslims. He tells the FBI to lay off investigating muslims and starts reading terrorists their rights. Obama is a traitor.

Simmy   June 11th, 2009 10:59 am ET

Where is the outcry against jailing the killer of Dr. Tiller (Home-Grown-Terrorist) in one of our prisons? Where will the white supremist killer von Brunn be housed (Domestic-Terrorist) ? In America or at GITMO? If these two dangerous murderers can stay in this country, detainees can come and be tried in this country.....

What are the talking heads who perpetuated this type violence saying now? Why aren't Dems speaking out more forcefully against GOP propaganda? The silence of the DEMs is perplexing.....We won, remember?

RealityKing   June 11th, 2009 10:57 am ET

Apparently one need only call Obama a communist to get released from Gitmo. We are watching..., and we will not forget who released these guys trained in Afganistan on the use of terror.

Greg from MA   June 11th, 2009 10:55 am ET

Glad to see we're moving people out of Guantanamo.

But, no, it's too dangerous to house these people on US soil. Bring them to a Maximum Security Prison here in MA for all I care.

Unlike our friends on the right, I have complete faith in our prison and justice system on this matter.

Steph   June 11th, 2009 10:42 am ET

Hmmm, If all the people held at Gitmo are horrible terrorists, why are we releasing them and why to Bermuda? Oh, that's right. Some of them aren't dangerous terrorists.

Proud DHS radical   June 11th, 2009 10:32 am ET

I wonder what Obama paid Bermuda to take in these four? The price tag for the 17 terrorists to go to Palau was $200 billion tax dollars. And just where is Obama planning on getting the money to pay these countries off? This is on top of his record deficit spending. CHANGE we can't afford!

dan in Tucson AZ   June 11th, 2009 10:30 am ET

If Obama would quietly relocate all the prisoners, then when closing time came there would be no issues to deal with.

Bill   June 11th, 2009 10:29 am ET

Change is a comin!

Why not put them on a slow boat .... back to China?

Shari, NY   June 11th, 2009 10:29 am ET

I heard that Palau has agreed to accept a few Asian detainees too, so it seems as if Hardin, Montana might not be able to use its empty detention center and cash in.

Tony in Maine   June 11th, 2009 10:16 am ET

One of the hallmarks of good writing is simplicity. I don't care what the RNC stylebook says, detainee means prisoner.

Super MOD   June 11th, 2009 10:12 am ET

Must be nice having the US set you up with a cushy tropical pad. How come we did not just give them back to China.

Once You Vote Black: Mute Newt   June 11th, 2009 10:11 am ET

Wow, thats not a bad deal. Plucked from the dirt of Afgan and placed in a tropical paridice.

Ted   June 11th, 2009 10:04 am ET

Must suck to be a terrorist, you get sentenced to live on a tropical island! BTW, it isn't very tough to get to the US from Bermuda.

phoenix86   June 11th, 2009 10:01 am ET

Why not send them back to China (or to San Franciso or Boston)?

Marilyn   June 11th, 2009 9:58 am ET

Rebuild the prison at Alcatraz and put them there!

Taff   June 11th, 2009 9:57 am ET

were are the republicans now? They are always first to shoot the gun when they say the president is in the wrong, lets see their appreciative side that acknowledges success as they always say they will do........

Lost in the Bermuda Triangle   June 11th, 2009 9:56 am ET

And were never heard from again...

Tom Swift - Shopton NY   June 11th, 2009 9:55 am ET

`
Speaking of Gitmo... when are we gonna find out what Pelosi knew and when did she know it, re: waterboarding.

Huh?

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Dawn in Pa   June 11th, 2009 9:55 am ET

and drinking mai tai's.

richard rohde   June 11th, 2009 9:53 am ET

I wish I could be resettled in Bermuda, I hate the Obama administration, am I eligible?

Jake Stronger   June 11th, 2009 9:49 am ET

Did Obama give the poor things one of the waterfront houses that has been foreclosed? Poor things!! It was American soldiers' fault that they were caught. Goodness, poor things!!

young conservative from NJ is win   June 11th, 2009 9:46 am ET

Good for Bermuda. I bet it's citizens feel a lot safer now.

/inb4thelibsbashbush

Dutch/Bad Newz, VA   June 11th, 2009 9:44 am ET

Everytime I hear of Gitmo I think of Harry & Kumar.

dennis   June 11th, 2009 9:42 am ET

We are not the u.s.a anymore we are a foreign country... So what should we call ourselves now?

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