US to Move Some Gitmo Detainees

One of three counties, Afghanistan agrees to accept detainees. Although some might see that as plans to "shutdown" Guantánamo -- this ain't so. In fact, it is my belief it will improve interrogation results -- the truth is the "mistreated" prisoners will much rather stay at Gitmo then be transfered to Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, or Yemen. Another bargaining chip!

The Bush administration is negotiating the transfer of nearly 70 percent of the detainees at the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to three countries as part of a plan, officials said, to share the burden of keeping suspected terrorists behind bars.
U.S. officials announced yesterday that they have reached an agreement with the government of Afghanistan to transfer most of its nationals to Kabul's 'exclusive' control and custody. There are 110 Afghan detainees at Guantanamo and 350 more at the Bagram airfield near Kabul. Their transfers could begin in the next six months.
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"This is not an effort to shut down Guantanamo. Rather, the arrangement we have reached with the government of Afghanistan is the latest step in what has long been our policy -- that we need to keep dangerous enemy combatants off the battlefield," Matthew Waxman, deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, said shortly after leaving Kabul with Prosper. "We, the U.S., don't want to be the world's jailer. We think a more prudent course is to shift that burden onto our coalition partners."