Four Guantanamo prisoners handed over to Iraq

Four Iraqi prisoners have been transferred from the US military detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Iraqi custody. Guantanamo Bay has been ideally situated to detain terrorists who are not citizens of the United States. Detainees are not due rights reserved for U.S. citizens or under the Geneva Convention. Perhaps we need to remember that Islamo-fascist organizations that these inmates are members of, such Al Qaeda, behead their captives and humiliate fellow Muslims. They are not signatories to the Geneva Convention.

AFP reports:

Four Iraqi prisoners from the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have been handed over to the authorities in Baghdad, a Red Cross official told AFP on Monday.

"ICRC was informed by the American authorities of the transfer of four Iraqi detainees of Guantanamo to their country on January 18," said a senior International Committee of the Red Cross official in Iraq.

"These detainees were visited by the Red Cross when they were in Guantanamo. The ICRC asked the Iraqi authorities to inform them where they are located and to give the opportunity to ICRC to visit them," the official added.

US President Barack Obama has decided to close the detention centre at the American naval base at Guantanamo, and his Vice President Joe Biden said on Saturday that Washington would ask other countries to take in prisoners.

"We will ask others to take responsibility for some of those now at Guantanamo, as we determine to close it," Biden said at security conference in Munich, Germany.

Around 60 of the current 245 prisoners might have to be transferred to third countries because they could face the death penalty at home, while others could be tried in US courts.

Also see:
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- Charges dropped against USS Cole terrorist

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