Gitmo detainees praying to Allah that they don't get transferred to Illinois
Remember Guantanamo? That hideous American Gulag hidden away in Cuba so we could torture prisoners using unimaginably cruel techniques far from the prying eyes of noble, crusading newsmen?
Now it turns out that the detainees would rather stay there than be transferred to President Obama’s preferred prison in Illinois.
Michael Isikoff reports in Newsweek:
But the final irony is that many of the detainees may not even want to be transferred to Thomson and could conceivably even raise their own legal roadblocks to allow them to stay at Gitmo.
Falkoff notes that many of his clients, while they clearly want to go home, are at least being held under Geneva Convention conditions in Guantánamo. At Thomson, he notes, the plans call for them to be thrown into the equivalent of a “supermax” security prison under near-lockdown conditions.
“As far as our clients are concerned, it’s probably preferable for them to remain at Guantánamo,” he says.
Waterboarding, apparently, is one thing, but going to Illinois is something else.
Source: Newsweek
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I wouldn’t want to go to Illinois right now either! Do you know how cold it is in Illinois?
I love the justice of it all — 200 or so muslim “virgins” flying in to meet skinheads, gang bangers and outright sociopaths in a maximum security prison. Who knows what could happen when they face Mecca and bow.
Shepard Smith will have a new beef with SnowBoarding terrorists in Illinois, Shep’s from Old Miss and he misses often and will probably spill the beans and warn the Chitmo Terrorists not to eat the yellow snow too.
LOL ocmadam
And this is just hilarious on so many levels…
Guantanamo is a paradise for these freaks… yeah sure they would rather go home so they can be free to kill more people, but incontrast guantanamo is not a bad place to be… I say now… send them to Illinois. Give them exactly what they dont want.
What does it say when they’d rather be locked up in Gitmo than visit the land of Obama?