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Eugene

(62,648 posts) Tue Jan 22, 2019, 08:58 PM Jan 2019

Senators (Cornyn, Cruz, and Rubio) urge Trump to put Islamic State prisoners in Gitmo

Source: Associated Press

Senators urge Trump to put Islamic State prisoners in Gitmo

January 22, 2019

WASHINGTON (AP) — Four U.S. senators are urging President Donald Trump to use the Guantanamo Bay detention center to hold fighters from the Islamic State group captured in Syria.

The Republican lawmakers say Islamic State prisoners could escape or be released in Syria, and they would face “justice” at the detention center on the U.S. base in Cuba.

Sens. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz of Texas and Marco Rubio of Florida made the suggestion in a letter sent Tuesday to the president.

The issue has come up because Trump has ordered the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria and U.S. allies there hold hundreds of IS prisoners.

Trump when he took office reversed an order from President Barack Obama to close the Guantanamo detention center. There are 40 prisoners still held there.

https://apnews.com/475da6fd6a2149c1b36eacf908541f66

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Kurds won't do it! atreides1 Jan 2019 #1

Doubt that's legal ... it was questionable when it was Al-Qaeda mr_lebowski Jan 2019 #2

atreides1

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1. Kurds won't do it!

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Jan 22, 2019, 09:06 PM

Jan 2019

Those prisoners are the only bargaining chip that the Kurds have, the only way they'll give that up is to have them taken by force...and history has shown that the Kurds are hard, tough fighters who don't give up easily!

mr_lebowski

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2. Doubt that's legal ... it was questionable when it was Al-Qaeda

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Jan 22, 2019, 10:50 PM

Jan 2019

and Taliban, who attacked us on 9/11.

ISIS has committed no terrorism (on any large scale I'm aware of) against US citizens.

This would be a damn hard 'sell' as not violating International Law, ESP if the US is pulling out and 'calling the war won'. This is keeping POW's after a war is over, basically.

Not that, of course, Trump gives two shits about the legality of ANYTHING. To shithead, if he can get away with it, it's legal. And he probably would, but it would be condemned almost worldwide I would wager.

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