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: Dispatches from the Culture WarsSwitzerland to Consider Taking Gitmo Detainees
By Ed Brayton
In an important development, Switzerland now says it may be willing to take some of the detainees from Guantanamo Bay once they are released.
Switzerland is ready to consider taking in detainees from the U.S. prison for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba if that helps to shut it down, the Swiss government said on Wednesday.Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post..."For Switzerland, the detention of people in Guantanamo is in conflict with international law. Switzerland is ready to consider how it can contribute to the solution of the Guantanamo problem," the government said in a statement.
Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on January 25, 2009 (boomark / email).
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