Yeah!!! Good on the land of my ancestors.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs announced this morning that Ireland today announced it will accept two Uzbek detainees transferred from Guantanamo Bay.
“I know they wanted to be helpful, and we appreciate their willingness and ability to do that,” Gibbs said of the offer from the Irish government. “These were detainees that were ruled to be able to be transferred without further detention.”
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Irish justice minister Dermot Ahern said in a statement that “In making this decision I am conscious of the intention of the United States to close the center at Guantánamo Bay, in part by transferring detainees, no longer regarded as posing a threat to security but who cannot return to their own countries, to other countries willing to accept them.”
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